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2 Feliz, N TEX 491703
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3 Ogando, A TEX 468396
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4 Lewis, C TEX 407890
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5 Adams, M TEX 430606
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6 Feldman, S TEX 444857
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7 Holland, D TEX 502706
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8 Gonzalez, M TEX 283166
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9 Harrison, M TEX 457448
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10 Oliver, D TEX 119984
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11 Wilson, C TEX 450351
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12 Lowe, M TEX 450275
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13 Uehara, K TEX 493157
0 0 33.75 3 0 0 0 1.1 5 5 5 3 2 1 .556 5.25

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1 Chavez, E TEX 346795
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1 Harrison, M TEX 457448
P 5 4 18.1 1 0 1 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 0.20
1 Lewis, C TEX 407890
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1 Ogando, A TEX 468396
P 13 0 13.0 2 2 0 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 0.15
1 Oliver, D TEX 119984
P 8 0 6.1 1 0 1 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 0.13
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C 5 2 18.0 17 16 1 0 0 1 1 .500 0 0 1.000 3.40
13 Napoli, M TEX 435063
C 18 16 146.0 139 125 13 1 4 2 5 .286 0 8 .993 7.67
14 Moreland, M TEX 519048
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15 Beltre, A TEX 134181
3B 17 17 154.0 53 12 40 1 8 - - - - - .981 3.06
16 Kinsler, I TEX 435079
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17 Young, M TEX 276545
DH 17 8 68.0 71 67 2 2 7 - - - - - .972 4.06
18 Andrus, E TEX 462101
SS 17 17 154.0 62 19 41 2 7 - - - - - .968 3.53
19 Murphy, D TEX 461815
RF 15 11 97.0 14 13 0 1 0 - - - - - .929 0.87
20 Holland, D TEX 502706
P 6 4 24.0 10 2 7 1 0 - - - - - .900 1.50
21 Wilson, C TEX 450351
P 6 5 28.0 5 1 3 1 0 - - - - - .800 0.67
22 German, E TEX 407397
2B 1 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - 0.00
22 Gonzalez, M TEX 283166
P 8 0 4.1 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - 0.00
22 Lowe, M TEX 450275
P 2 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - 0.00
22 Tateyama, Y TEX 599899
P 1 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - 0.00
22 Uehara, K TEX 493157
P 3 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - 0.00

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2011 TEXAS Rangers World Series....Hitting...

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3 Napoli, M TEX 435063
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4 Beltre, A TEX 134181
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5 Andrus, E TEX 462101
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6 Young, M TEX 276545
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7 Hamilton, J TEX 285078
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8 Murphy, D TEX 461815
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9 Cruz, N TEX 443558
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9 Gentry, C TEX 502226
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11 Moreland, M TEX 519048
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12 Chavez, E TEX 346795
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12 German, E TEX 407397
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12 Harrison, M TEX 457448
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12 Holland, D TEX 502706
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12 Lewis, C TEX 407890
P 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 4.00 12 5
12 Wilson, C TEX 450351
P 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1.00 8 2
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P 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0
18 Feldman, S TEX 444857
P 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0
18 Feliz, N TEX 491703
P 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0
18 Gonzalez, M TEX 283166
P 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0
18 Lowe, M TEX 450275
P 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0
18 Ogando, A TEX 468396
P 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0
18 Oliver, D TEX 119984
P 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - -

[jcisco loboe'77]

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2011 TEXAS Rangers World Series....Pitching...


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1 Holland, D TEX 502706
1 0 0.87 2 1 0 0 10.1 4 1 1 1 2 7 .118 0.58 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16 7 0 0 0 0 0 36 139 1.000 2.29 .167 .235 .402 6.10 1.74 3.48 3.50 13.45
2 Lewis, C TEX 407890
0 0 2.25 2 2 0 0 12.0 7 5 3 1 5 8 .156 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 13 0 0 0 0 0 50 191 - 1.31 .240 .244 .484 6.00 3.75 5.25 1.60 15.92
3 Wilson, C TEX 450351
0 1 2.92 3 2 0 0 12.1 8 5 4 0 11 9 .205 1.54 0 0 2 4 0 0 3 15 10 2 0 0 0 0 55 218 .000 1.50 .404 .256 .660 6.57 8.03 5.84 0.82 17.68
4 Adams, M TEX 430606
1 0 4.50 3 0 0 0 2.0 5 1 1 0 2 1 .455 3.50 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 13 41 1.000 1.50 .538 .455 .993 4.50 9.00 22.50 0.50 20.50
5 Feliz, N TEX 491703
0 0 4.91 4 0 2 3 3.2 2 2 2 0 4 7 .167 1.64 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 17 84 - 0.00 .412 .417 .828 17.18 9.82 4.91 1.75 22.91
6 Gonzalez, M TEX 283166
0 0 6.00 3 0 0 0 3.0 1 2 2 1 1 2 .111 0.67 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 11 36 - 0.40 .182 .444 .626 6.00 3.00 3.00 2.00 12.00
7 Harrison, M TEX 457448
0 2 7.04 2 2 0 0 7.2 11 8 6 2 3 4 .324 1.83 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 13 6 0 0 0 0 0 37 150 .000 2.17 .378 .559 .937 4.70 3.52 12.91 1.33 19.57
8 Feldman, S TEX 444857
0 0 9.00 5 0 0 1 5.0 5 5 5 0 6 2 .278 2.20 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 10 2 0 0 0 1 0 26 105 - 5.00 .480 .333 .813 3.60 10.80 9.00 0.33 21.00
9 Ogando, A TEX 468396
0 0 10.12 6 0 0 1 2.2 7 4 3 1 7 3 .500 5.25 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 21 95 - 1.00 .667 .714 1.381 10.13 23.63 23.63 0.43 35.62
10 Oliver, D TEX 119984
1 0 11.57 3 0 0 0 2.1 3 3 3 1 0 3 .375 1.29 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 36 1.000 4.00 .375 .750 1.125 11.57 0.00 11.57 - 15.43
11 Lowe, M TEX 450275
0 1 18.00 2 0 0 0 1.0 3 2 2 1 0 1 .500 3.00

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2011 TEXAS Rangers World Series....Fielding...

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1 Adams, M TEX 430606
P 3 0 2.0 2 1 1 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 0.67
1 Beltre, A TEX 134181
3B 7 7 62.0 25 6 19 0 3 - - - - - 1.000 3.57
1 Chavez, E TEX 346795
OF 1 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 1.00
1 Cruz, N TEX 443558
RF 7 7 62.0 13 13 0 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 1.86
1 Feldman, S TEX 444857
P 5 0 5.0 2 1 1 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 0.40
1 Gentry, C TEX 502226
CF 6 2 16.0 8 8 0 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 1.33
1 Hamilton, J TEX 285078
LF 11 7 61.0 13 13 0 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 1.18
1 Harrison, M TEX 457448
P 2 2 7.2 1 0 1 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 0.50
1 Holland, D TEX 502706
P 2 1 10.1 6 1 5 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 3.00
1 Moreland, M TEX 519048
1B 3 2 22.0 30 29 1 0 2 - - - - - 1.000 10.00
1 Oliver, D TEX 119984
P 3 0 2.1 1 0 1 0 0 - - - - - 1.000 0.33
1 Torrealba, Y TEX 150275
C 1 1 9.0 9 8 1 0 0 0 1 .000 0 0 1.000 9.00
13 Napoli, M TEX 435063
C 7 7 62.0 53 47 5 1 2 0 2 .000 0 3 .981 7.43
14 Andrus, E TEX 462101
SS 7 7 62.0 29 6 22 1 4 - - - - - .966 4.00
15 Kinsler, I TEX 435079
2B 7 7 62.0 41 18 21 2 8 - - - - - .951 5.57
16 Young, M TEX 276545
DH 7 4 31.0 36 32 2 2 4 - - - - - .944 4.86
17 Murphy, D TEX 461815
RF 7 5 45.0 3 2 0 1 0 - - - - - .667 0.29
17 Wilson, C TEX 450351
P 3 2 12.1 3 0 2 1 0 - - - - - .667 0.67
19 Feliz, N TEX 491703
P 4 0 3.2 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - 0.00
19 German, E TEX 407397
2B 1 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - 0.00
19 Gonzalez, M TEX 283166
P 3 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - 0.00
19 Lewis, C TEX 407890
P 2 2 12.0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - 0.00
19 Lowe, M TEX 450275
P 2 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - 0.00
19 Ogando, A TEX 468396
P 6 0 2.2 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - 0.00

[jcisco loboe'77]

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Cardinals 6, Rangers 2.
Cardinals win 2011 World Series.
......1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9=R H E.
TEX-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0=2 6 0.
STL-2 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 x=6 7 1.

W:Carpenter (2-0)
L:Harrison (0-2)
"A postseason run for the ages concluded with the Cards crowned as World Series champs for the 11th time in franchise history. Chris Carpenter pitched on short rest to help dispatch Texas in Game 7, and David Freese earned Fall Classic MVP honors."

[jcisco loboe'77]

World Series Results...RANGERS (3-4).
..........Date Opponent Result.Record.
Wed,10/19 at Cardinals..L 2-3...(0-1).
Thu,,10/20 at Cardinals.W 2-1...(1-1).
Sat,,,10/22 at Rangers...L 7-16.(1-2).
Sun,,,10/23 at Rangers.W 4-0...(2-2).
Mon, 10/24 at Rangers..W 4-2...(3-2).
Wed,10/26 at Cardinals Postponed (3-2).
Thu, 10/27 at Cardinals.L 9-10.(3-3).
Fri, 10/28 at Cardinals..L 2-6..(3-4).

================Rangers-Cardinals.
=====================30-38..Total Runs.
=====================60-56..Total Hits.
======================8-6...Total Errors.

LONG WAITS
The Rangers' 51-year World Series title drought ranks 10th among the longest in Major League history.
-----Team---------Prev. Title--Next Title--Seasons.
Senators/Rangers--1961*-------------------51.
* -- first year of franchise


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[jcisco loboe'77]

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Players quietly come, go on clean-out day.
Comments By Jeff Caplan.

ARLINGTON,Texas--"Barely 12 hours after arriving back in Texas from a crushing World Series defeat, Rangers players trickled into a quiet clubhouse lined with moving boxes. It was clean-out day Saturday. At 1:15 p.m., Yorvit Torrealba was the only one present packing up his belongings.

Then David Murphy came through with his two young daughters wearing matching outfits. They were the happiest of the bunch in the room, dancing and smiling and excited about an upcoming trip to DisneyWorld. For a moment, they made their dad smile, too. Murphy made the final out in Friday night's Game 7 loss to the champion St. Louis Cardinals.

Mike Adams packed up his things to be shipped to Corpus Chisti where he makes his offseason home. Derek Holland then arrived wearing a Dallas Stars cap, but not much of a smile. The Game 4 winner made his final appearance of 2011 in relief in Game 7, the Rangers' second consecutive defeat to lose the World Series, and their first back-to-back losses since late August.

It was quickly evident how much this second consecutive World Series defeat will sting and how long it will linger. The pain of not putting away two two-run leads, twice pinning the Cardinals down to their final out and final strike, can be an overwhelming load to bear in the short term.

"We appreciate what we've done and we're happy and blessed, but at the same time it's a letdown to use," Holland said. "We made it for a second year in a row and we didn't get the job done. We feel like we let ourselves down, our fans down, Texas down. We had the team to do it."

Rangers general manager Jon Daniels will meet the media on Monday. The club's front office has little time to exhale or reflect. Free agency is right around the corner and they will begin work to improve on this season's club. C.J. Wilson is the key unrestricted free agent. Most of the team is locked up under contract, giving the Rangers an excellent chance of making a third return trip the charm.

But, on Saturday, as players cleaned out 2011, said their good-byes and went their separate ways for the winter, looking forward with the still unfathomable past fresh on their minds was hard to do.

"I'm probably going to feel the pain for a couple of days," Holland said. "It's the World Series we just lost, the biggest game of the year for us," Holland said. "That's huge for us. Once it's a couple days we'll let it settle and move on from there and get ready for next year."

[jcisco loboe'77]

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Rangers could return all key pieces for 3rd chance.
By STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Sports Writer.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP)—"Moving boxes with the numbers and names of players were scattered around the Texas Rangers clubhouse Saturday. Some were already taped up while others had yet to be filled.

Stacked on a pallet in the hall outside were unopened bottles of champagne that had been intended for a championship celebration. The World Series logos that had been painted so brightly on the field a week earlier were already faded and almost unrecognizable.

There's always next year for the Rangers.

After coming so agonizingly close to winning its first championship, Texas could have all of the key pieces back next year for a third consecutive try after ending the season with a loss in the World Series for the second year in a row.

But the Rangers first have to shake off what happened against the St. Louis Cardinals.

"Not much to assess," said Michael Young, the team's longest-tenured player and career hits leader after 11 seasons. "We got really close, just couldn't get that final out. This is going to be something that is going to sit with us for a little bit."

Twice in Game 6 at St. Louis, the Rangers were within one strike of winning the Series before losing that game in 11 innings. They then led 2-0 only four batters into Game 7 before losing 6-2 on Friday night, the first time in more than two months they lost consecutive games.

"We appreciate what we've done and we're happy and blessed with things that happened, but at the same time, it's a letdown to us," left-hander Derek Holland said. "This just ended, we're not going to go too far (ahead) yet. We didn't get what we wanted, just got to use that for next year again, push ourselves again."

That's what the Rangers did this year.

The franchise that had to wait until its 50th season to get to the World Series before losing in five games to San Francisco last year, quickly got another chance.

"This club is unbelievably resilient, unbelievably mentally strong top to bottom. ... People asked us that this year in spring training, was there going to be a World Series hangover, and obviously there wasn't. That's the farthest thing from my mind," general manager Jon Daniels said. "Our mindset was never a one-year, two-year window. It was to build something to last a long time. Can't predict the future, but I know we're going to do everything we can to get back."

Even after losing ace left-hander Cliff Lee in free agency, the Rangers set a franchise record with 96 wins and won their second consecutive American League pennant — only to finish on the losing side again, though this time it felt different.

"It's more disappointing. We were closer," Young said.

"I don't remember a lot about the World Series last year. I know I'm going to remember this World Series," slugger Josh Hamilton said. "It's going to motivate guys, it really is. ... Don't forget how this felt getting close."

Left-hander C.J. Wilson, who became the No. 1 starter after Lee's departure, is the only prominent free agent for the Rangers.

Texas has a 2012 club option for right-hander Colby Lewis (14-10). All the other starting pitchers and players in the regular lineup are either under contract already — such as Adrian Beltre, Ian Kinsler, Hamilton and Young — or under club control for next season.

Catcher Mike Napoli, their standout player in the World Series, is eligible for salary arbitration, as are reliever Mike Adams, shortstop Elvis Andrus and AL championship series MVP Nelson Cruz. But the Rangers control all of their rights for next season, and certainly have no plans to let them go.

Since making the transition from the bullpen, Wilson has gone 31-15 with a 3.14 ERA over 67 starts the past two regular seasons. But he was winless this postseason while becoming the first pitcher ever in the same season to have a loss in the division series, championship series and World Series after also being the loser in the All-Star game — the AL's loss in July cost the Rangers home-field advantage in the World Series again.

"The only thing I'm thinking about right now is getting out of these clothes and taking a shower," Wilson said after Game 7. "That's what's next."

Holland (16-5), the 25-year-old left-hander, had a breakthrough season that culminated by pitching into the ninth inning of Game 4 while allowing only two hits in a 4-0 win over the Cardinals. Also back will be Game 7 starter Matt Harrison (14-9) and Alexi Ogando, who won 13 games and was an All-Star after moving from the bullpen to the rotation.

Before last year, the Rangers had never even won a postseason series.

The team that started as the expansion Washington Senators in 1961, and moved to Texas for the 1972 season, won its first-ever playoff game in 1996 at old Yankee Stadium. New York won three in a row to clinch that series, then swept Texas in 1998 and 1999 on the way to World Series titles each time.

The Rangers have now advanced all the way to the World Series twice, but also became the first team since the Atlanta Braves (1991-92) to lose the World Series two years in a row.

"Just the same way that it will never get old to pop champagne and celebrate. This will never be a good feeling. It hurts," outfielder David Murphy said. "It's hard to go through a full season and play so well and get to Game 7 of a World Series and not get it done.

"There are so many positive things that we can take away from this year but right now it hurts," he said. "That's the easiest way to put it."

[EMMITT22]

FANTASTIC!!! great year Rangers thanks for a memorable one, put it away and seal the deal next year.

[EMMITT22]

I feel like Wash should have got manager of the year. though the Rangers did not win the WS it was more impressive to me that he got the Rangers in the series for a second straight year, than Maddon getting the Rays to the ALDS for a second straight year were they AGAIN LOST to the RANGERS!!!