Texas Rangers (0-1) at Kansas City Royals (1-0) RHP Yu Darvish (0-0, ––) vs. RHP Kyle Zimmer (0-0, ––) Spring #2 • Road #1 (0-0) • Sun., February 26, 2017 • Surprise Stadium • 2:05 p.m. CDT • No TV / 105.3 FM TODAY’S SCHEDULED PITCHERS TEXAS RANGERS KANSAS CITY SPRING TRAINING AT A GLANCE 11 Yu Darvish RHP 45 Kyle Zimmer RHP 36 Dillon Gee RHP 50 Miguel Almonte RHP Record .......................................................................................0-1 56 Andrew Faulkner LHP 54 Scott Alexander LHP Home .........................................................................................0-1 49 Mike Hauschild RHP 73 Jonathan Dziedzic LHP Road ..........................................................................................0-0 57 Wesley Wright LHP 75 Malcolm Culver RHP 77 Adam Loewen LHP 61 Kevin McCarthy RHP In Surprise .................................................................................0-1 43 Brandon League RHP Away from Surprise ...................................................................0-0 47 Bobby Parnell RHP Current streak ............................................................................. L1 Last 5 games .............................................................................0-1 TOMORROW’S SCHEDULED PITCHERS - HOME GAME Longest winning streak .............................................................. NA TEXAS RANGERS MILWAUKEE Longest losing streak......................................................1 (current) 78 Eddie Gamboa RHP 41 Junior Guerra RHP 59 Connor Sadzeck RHP 71 Josh Hader LHP TEX scores 1st/Opp. scores 1st ..........................................0-0/0-1 72 Brady Dragmire RHP 46 Corey Knebel RHP TEX out-hits/Opp. out-hits/Hits even .............................0-0/0-1/0-0 39 Dario Alvarez LHP 53 Jhan Mariñez RHP HR/No HR ............................................................................0-0/0-1 62 Jose Leclerc RHP 45 Tyler Cravy RHP Error/Error-less ....................................................................0-0/0-1 51 Damien Magnifico RHP 74 Stephen Kohlscheen RHP Lead after 6/7/8 .............................................................0-0/0-0/0-0 64 Forrest Snow RHP Trail after 6/7/8 ..............................................................0-0/0-0/0-1 Tied after 6/7/8 ..............................................................0-1/0-1/0-0 TOMORROW’S SCHEDULED PITCHERS - ROAD GAME One-run games..........................................................................0-0 TEXAS RANGERS CLEVELAND Come-from-behind wins ............................................................... 0 21 Chi Chi Gonzalez RHP 59 Carlos Carrasco RHP vs. A.L. .......................................................................................0-1 55 Allen Webster RHP 34 Zach McAllister RHP 53 Tyler Wagner RHP 61 Dan Otero RHP vs. N.L. ......................................................................................0-0 74 R.J. Alvarez RHP 76 Adam Plutko RHP 76 Jose Valdespina RHP 49 Chris Narveson LHP MINOR LEAGUE EXTRAS FOR TODAY 83 Travis Banwart RHP 59 Anthony Carter RHP 83 Tyler Sanchez C OPENER RECAP: The Rangers lost to the Royals in Saturday’s Cactus League 62 Jimmy Reyes LHP 84 Luis Marte UT opener, 7-5 in Surprise…after falling behind 5-0, Texas produced baserunners 74 Bobby LaFromboise LHP 89 Chuck Moorman C for 7 consecutive batters in a 5-run 3rd inning to tie the game…each of the 76 Cody Palmquist RHP 90 Isiah Kiner-Falefa INF club’s 5 hits in yesterday’s loss all came in a 5-batter span during that rally in 78 Preston Claiborne RHP 93 Jairo Beras OF the 3rd…Jonathan Lucroy’s 2-run double finished off the rally in that frame, and 79 Josh Morgan INF 97 Matt Lipka OF it was immediately preceded by 3 other RBI hits from Nomar Mazara (single), 80 Juremi Profar UT 99 Andy Ibanez INF/DH Mike Napoli (single), and Rougned Odor (double)…Napoli also walked in his *-Pronunciations: lah-frahm-BOYSS; JURR-amy; KYE-nuhr fuh-LEE-fuh other plate appearance…Mazara recorded an outfield assist in the first inning on a play at the plate to retire Lorenzo Cain…Delino DeShields had 2 walks, a SPLIT TOMORROW: Texas is scheduled to play a pair of split squad games run, and a stolen base in 3 plate appearances, as he has walked in 4 of his 6 tomorrow vs. MIL and at CLE, the first of 4 split dates this spring…the others: PA’s over the last two days between the Rangers’ intrasquad game and Cactus 3/11 (vs. CWS/at OAK), 3/17 (vs. LAA/vs. CLE in San Antonio), and 3/18 (at League opener…Doug Bernier made a diving stop to retire Alex Gordon in the CIN/vs. CLE in San Antonio)…the only other year in which Texas played a split 5th inning, and also had a walk in 2 plate appearances. squad as early as the 3rd day in Cactus League play (beginning 2003) came in 2004, when team lost both a home game vs. KC and a road game at MIL on TODAY’S GAME ON RADIO / BROADCAST SCHEDULE: Today’s game will 3/6/04, also the 3rd day of the spring schedule. be carried on 105.3 The FAN in the DFW market for a 2nd straight day, with Matt Hicks and Jared Sandler on the call…the Rangers’ 2017 spring training INJURY REPORT: OF Josh Hamilton has left camp and is flying to Houston broadcast schedule includes 16 television games, 16 radio contests, and 12 today…he is scheduled to vist Dr. Walt Lowe tomorrow with the possibility for free webcasts on texasrangers.com Gameday Audio…FOX Sports Southwest arthroscopic surgery on the knee…Hamilton initially felt stiffness in his left knee is scheduled to carry five Texas productions and also five opponents’ TV broad- on the day of the club’s first full squad workout on Tuesday, and was evaluated casts…there are also five games on TXA21…TV games will be on FOX Sports on Wednesday in Houston by Dr. Lowe, who performed surgery on 6/8/16 to Southwest or TXA21, while radio games are on 105.3 The FAN as well as a repair a torn ACL and carilage damage in the knee…Hamilton returned to camp number of stations on the Texas Rangers radio network…Dave Raymond, Tom on Thursday and had been participating in light activity…3B Adrian Beltre suf- Grieve, and C.J. Nitkowski will provide television coverage while Eric Nadel, fered a Grade 1 left calf strain during a workout at his California home on 2/14… Matt Hicks, and Jared Sandler will call the majority of the spring radio games. he has been participating in baseball activities since he reported to camp on Friday, 2/17, and was slated for another session of live batting practice today… RANGERS IN WBC: The Rangers are currently scheduled to have 8 players he has not been ruled out for the first round of the WBC at this point…RHP from the organization participate in the World Baseball Classic: 3B Adrian Bel- Tyson Ross had surgery to relieve Thoracic Outlet Syndrome performed on his tre (Dominican Republic), C Robinson Chirinos (Venezuela), LHP Alex Clau- right side on 10/13/16 in St. Louis by Dr. Robert Thompson…he is currently on dio (Puerto Rico), RHP Sam Dyson (USA), C Jonathan Lucroy (USA), INF a throwing program and is expected to miss the start of the 2017 season…SS Rougned Odor (Venezuela), LHP Martin Perez (Venezuela), and INF Jurickson Elvis Andrus had surgery on 11/1/16 to repair a sports hernia that he first suf- Profar (Netherlands)…Profar will leave for Korea on Tuesday…the players for fered in May 2016…he has been participating in all workouts and is expected to the U.S. and Dominican are slated to leave on Sunday, 3/5…additionally, minor be ready for the start of the regular season, but the date of his first spring game league LHP Reiver Sanmartin is on the Designated Pitcher Pool for Colombia, has not been determined…C Brett Hayes (oblique) has shown improvement but is not currently listed as active…LHP Adam Loewen, who was originally and he is expected to ramp up his baseball activity. slated to pitch for Team Canada when he signed with the Rangers on 2/13, is no longer on his country’s roster for the tournament. 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KANSAS CITY: Texas dropped yesterday’s spring opener vs. KC, 7-5… clubs are scheduled to meet 5 times this spring (3 in Surprise, 2 in Arlington)… BEASLEY IS BACK: Rangers third base coach Tony Beasley was in the 3rd teams will play each other for 1st 2, and also final 3 games of the exhibition base coach’s box yesterday for the his first contest of record since 2015 ALDS season…Texas has played multiple games vs. K.C. to begin the spring in each Game 5 at Toronto…Beasley was not on the field at any point, and was away of those years except 2008 (opened vs. K.C., then played 2 straight vs. Angels). from the team for portions of the 2016 season, while he underwent success- ful cancer treatment…other members of the coaching staff returning this year The Rangers went 6-1 against the Royals in 2016, winning the final 6 straight are Doug Brocail (pitching), Steve Buechele (bench), Brad Holman (bullpen), after a loss on 7/22/16 in KC…clubs play in 2017 from 4/20-23 in Arlington (4 G) Anthony Iapoce (hitting), Justin Mashore (asst. hitting), and Hector Ortiz (1st and 7/14-16 at KC (3 G), the latter series following the All-Star break. base)…new major league field coordinator Josh Bonifay replaces Jayce Tingler, who was promoted to assistant general manager. SHORTS: DeShields and Gallo are starting for a 3rd straight day, as the pair also started Friday’s intrasquad and yesterday’s Cactus League opener…today YEAR NO. 15: The Rangers are in the organization’s 15th season of conducting will be DeShields’ 1st appearance in the field (DH in other 2 games)…Shin-Soo spring training in Surprise, Arizona…this is the team’s 15th season in the Cac- Choo, the DH today in his spring debut, did not play either Friday or Saturday… tus League…the only previous spring training locations in Texas history were LHP Bobby LaFromboise, a potential minor league extra today, is not in the Pompano Beach, Fla.