Texas Rangers (1-4) at Los Angeles Angels (4-0) LHP Martin Perez (0-0, 9.00) Vs
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Texas Rangers (1-4) at Los Angeles Angels (4-0) LHP Martin Perez (0-0, 9.00) vs. RHP Jesse Chavez (0-0, ––) Spring #6 • Road #3 (1-1) • Wed., March 1, 2017 • Tempe Diablo Stadium • 2:10 p.m. CDT • FSSW* / Webcast * - FSSW will carry Angels’ FS West feed TODAY’S SCHEDULED PITCHERS TEXAS RANGERS LOS ANGELES-AL SPRING TRAINING AT A GLANCE 33 Martin Perez LHP 40 Jesse Chavez RHP 64 A.J. Griffin RHP 23 Alex Meyer RHP Record .......................................................................................1-4 56 Andrew Faulkner LHP 60 Justin Miller RHP Home .........................................................................................0-3 57 Wesley Wright LHP 51 Austin Adams RHP Road ..........................................................................................1-1 77 Adam Loewen LHP 53 Blake Parker RHP 83 Keynan Middleton RHP In Surprise .................................................................................1-3 Away from Surprise ...................................................................0-1 TOMORROW’S SCHEDULED PITCHERS Current streak ............................................................................. L3 TEXAS RANGERS OAKLAND Last 5 games .............................................................................1-4 49 Mike Hauschild RHP 32 Jesse Hahn RHP Longest winning streak ................................................................. 1 36 Dillon Gee RHP 50 Raul Alcántara RHP Longest losing streak......................................................3 (current) 39 Dario Alvarez LHP 72 Frankie Montas RHP 75 R.J. Alvarez RHP 44 Ryan Madson RHP TEX scores 1st/Opp. scores 1st ..........................................1-2/0-2 62 Jose Leclerc RHP 61 John Axford RHP TEX out-hits/Opp. out-hits/Hits even .............................0-0/1-4/0-0 74 Trey Cochran-Gill RHP HR/No HR ............................................................................1-2/0-1 77 Heath Fillmyer RHP Error/Error-less ....................................................................0-3/1-1 Lead after 6/7/8 .............................................................1-0/1-0/1-0 TUESDAY’S GONE: The Rangers lost to the Diamondbacks on Tuesday in Surprise, 8-4…Nick Martinez posted 2.0 scoreless innings in his spring debut, Trail after 6/7/8 ..............................................................0-3/0-3/0-4 allowing just a first-inning single…Jonathan Lucroy went 2-for-3, and he is now Tied after 6/7/8 ..............................................................0-1/0-1/0-0 3-for-5 in his first 2 games this spring ahead of his scheduled participation in the One-run games..........................................................................0-1 World Baseball Classic…Jared Hoying launched a solo home run to right-center Come-from-behind wins ............................................................... 0 in the 3rd inning, and Mike Napoli hit an RBI single later in that frame to give vs. A.L. .......................................................................................1-2 Texas an early 2-0 lead…Hoying also walked in his other plate appearance… Texas used 12 players from minor league camp, including Isiah Kiner-Falefa, vs. N.L. ......................................................................................0-2 who hit a 2-run HR in the 7th inning…Kiner-Falefa has not hit a regular season home run in his professional career spanning 1,212 at-bats…prospect Andy MINOR LEAGUE EXTRAS FOR TODAY Ibanez later doubled later in that frame as a minor league call-up…three Texas The call-ups from minor league camp for today’s game can be found on the travel errors in the game led to 4 unearned runs for Arizona. roster in the press box. BATTING NOTES: Four players are tied for team lead with 4 games played: Hanser Alberto, Ronald Guzman, Jared Hoying, and Drew Robinson…eight dif- INJURY REPORT: OF Josh Hamilton had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee ferent players have started a team-high 3 games…prospect Andy Ibanez, who Monday performed by Dr. Walt Lowe in Houston…he will remain in Houston for is making his 1st spring start today in Tempe, is the only Ranger with multiple at least a few days doing post-op follow up with Dr. Lowe…Hamilton initially felt XBH this spring (HR Sun. at KC, 2B yesterday vs. ARI) and has team-high 6 to- stiffness in his left knee on the day of the club’s first full squad workout on 2/21, tal bases…Ibanez is 2-for-4 in 3 G…Jonathan Lucroy has a team-high 3 hits… and was evaluated on Wednesday in Houston by Dr. Lowe, who performed sur- Texas is batting .313 (10-32) with RISP…club has lowest avg. (.194) and OBP gery on 6/8/16 to repair a torn ACL and carilage damage in the knee…Hamilton (.271) of any ML club, 3rd-lowest SLG at .331 (.313-ATL; .326-HOU)…have all returned to camp on Thursday and had been participating in light activity…RHP 5 HR in last 4 G, XBH in every contest…have 17 R in 5 G (3.4 R/G), just 6 R in Sam Dyson was scratched from his scheduled appearance in Tuesday’s game last 3 G…Nomar Mazara has a team-high 3 RBI…Travis Snider leads club w/ 3 with a mild sprain of his right wrist…Dyson fell on the wrist during PFP practice, BB…3 of 5 games have been decided by a one or 2 runs. but has shown improvement…he is scheduled to appear in a sim game in camp tomorrow…3B Adrian Beltre suffered a Grade 1 left calf strain during a workout SIM CITY: Rangers were scheduled to have a simulated game at 10am this at his California home on 2/14…he has been participating in baseball activities morning in Surprise…Cole Hamels was slated to pitch 2.0 innings in that sim since he reported to camp on 2/17…he has not been ruled out for the first round game, with an inning each for Keone Kela, Matt Bush, and Tony Barnette…it will of the WBC at this point…RHP Tyson Ross had surgery to relieve Thoracic Out- be the first action for any of these 4 pitchers this spring. let Syndrome performed on his right side on 10/13/16 in St. Louis by Dr. Robert Thompson…he is currently on a throwing program and is expected to miss the Club is also slated to have a sim game on Thursday, with Yu Darvish (3 inn.), start of the 2017 season…SS Elvis Andrus had surgery on 11/1/16 to repair a Sam Dyson (1 inn.), and possibly Anthony Bass appearing…Bass is scheduled sports hernia that he first suffered in May 2016…he has been participating in all as a back-up for today’s contest. workouts and is expected to be ready for the start of the regular season, but the date of his first spring game has not been determined…C Brett Hayes (oblique) ROAD LESS TRAVELED: Texas is slated to play 2 straight road games today has shown improvement and he is expected to ramp up his baseball activity… and tomorrow, the only time in Arizona this spring in which the club will not play RHP Jose Valdespina was struck in the groin area by a batted ball from CLE’s in Surprise for consecutive days…just one of club’s 1st 5 games have been away Bradley Zimmer in the 8th inning Monday in Goodyear…he threw to 1st base from Surprise, a 3-2 defeat with a split squad on Monday at CLE in Goodyear. to retire Zimmer, walked off under his own power, and checked out OK with the training staff…was slated to see a urologist as a follow-up. WEBCAST FOR HOME GAME / BROADCAST SCHEDULE: Today’s game can be found on a free audio webcast at texasrangers.com, with Jared Sandler VS. LOS ANGELES-AL: The Rangers and Angels play 3 times this spring: to- and Dominic Cotroneo on the call…the Rangers’ 2017 spring training broadcast day in Tempe, 3/17 in Surprise, and 3/22 back here in Tempe…Texas went 10-9 schedule includes 16 television games, 16 radio contests, and 12 free webcasts against the Angels last season, winning the season series for the 1st time since on texasrangers.com Gameday Audio…FOX Sports Southwest is scheduled to 2013…team was 4-1-1 in the 6 series vs. the Halos in 2016…teams play 19 carry five Texas productions and also five opponents’ TV broadcasts, starting games this season, including the Rangers’ 1st road series of the season from with today’s FS West TV broadcast for the Angels game in Tempe…there are 4/11-13 in Anaheim. also five games on TXA21…TV games will be on FOX Sports Southwest or TXA21, while radio games are on 105.3 The FAN as well as a number of sta- GO WEST: Texas is scheduled to play 3 straight against the other 3 A.L. West tions on the Texas Rangers radio network…Dave Raymond, Tom Grieve, and Cactus League clubs beginning today…Rangers had a 47-29 (.618) record C.J. Nitkowski will provide television coverage while Eric Nadel, Matt Hicks, and against A.L. West opponents in 2016, best intradivision record for any of the 5 Jared Sandler will call the majority of the spring radio games. West clubs and the 4th-best intradivision mark in MLB behind Washington (51- 25, .671 vs. N.L. East), Chicago-NL (50-25, .667 vs. N.L. Central), and Cleve- RANGERS IN WBC: The Rangers are currently scheduled to have 8 players land (49-26, .653 vs. A.L. Central)…it was the Rangers’ 3rd-best record ever from the organization participate in the World Baseball Classic: 3B Adrian Bel- against the West, trailing 2011 (40-17, .702) and 2013 (53-23, .697), this after tre (Dominican Republic), C Robinson Chirinos (Venezuela), LHP Alex Claudio being the 5th club in MLB history to win their division despite a sub-.500 record (Puerto Rico), RHP Sam Dyson (USA), C Jonathan Lucroy (USA), INF Rougned against division opponents in 2015. Odor (Venezuela), LHP Martin Perez (Venezuela), and INF Jurickson Profar (Netherlands)…Profar left for Korea yesterday (Tuesday)…the players for the CAMP ROSTER / LATE ADDITIONS: There are 61 players in Rangers camp, U.S.