Guerrero's hit gives Rangers 11th straight win - Yahoo! News

Vladimir Guerrero had 13 walk-off hits in his career until last nights at bat.


Vladimir Guerrero who has changed the complexity of the Rangers lineup ripped a line drive to left field to send the go ahead run (SS E. Andrus) home in the bottom of the ninth inning Thursday night against the Pittsburgh Pirates for a 6-5 win.


Rangers started the game with a 4-0 deficit in the first inning. Throughout the course of the night thanks to some key performances, the Rangers rallied back

Ranger's third basemen, Michael Young had a run scoring triple in the bottom of the seventh inning to secure another spot in Ranger's History. With his 45th, Michale Young set the record for Most Career Triples in Ranger's History.

Hot hitter, Josh Hamilton went 3 for 4 with a run scored and a stolen base while the Ranger's slugger 1B Justin Smoak tacked on 2RBIs.

Guerrero, the hero of last nights game, scored for 2 runs and grabbed his only RBI on the 2-out hit in the bottom of the ninth.


***Once again a stat that keeps flying under the radar is how many the Ranger's are leaving on base. In Thursday night's game, the Rangers left eight men on base. This 3-game series vs. the Pirates the Rangers Team LOB was 5 in the first game and Team LOB was 13 in the Wednesday's game ***


3-GAME SERIES VS. PITTSBURGH PIRATES

Texas Rangers
Team LOB -  26 Total

(5) game 1
(13) game 2
(8) game 3

In other Rangers News,
 Rangers general manager Jon Daniels paid off a bet with E. Andrus and added blonde highlights to his brown hair on Thursday. Daniels had accepted a dare from Andrus to dye his hair if the team's winning streak reached ten. 

The Texas Rangers Win Streak at 10 Games

RANGERS DEMOLISH PITTSBURGH 13-3 with Josh Hamilton(notes) getting a requested night off, and putting his career-best 17-game hitting streak on hold after appearing in 31 consecutive games, the AL West-leading Rangers matched their season high with 13 runs and had 17 hits. And third baseman Michael Young only needed to play 4 innings of this game going 3 for 4  with a home run, 3Runs, and 4RBIs. (Watch Young's Homerun)

After 5 straight singles and a sacrifice fly the Texas Rangers scored 5 Runs in the bottom of the 2^nd inning and were leading the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-1.  In the fourth-inning Rangers scored 6 runs on 6 hits expanding their lead to 13-2. The game was on cruise control after that with the Pirates scoring only one more run in the top of the seventh-inning on a sacrifice fly by Pirates 2^nd  baseman N. Walker for a final score of 13-3.

Rangers Key Performers:

E. Andrus – 3 for 5 w/ 3Runs, 1RBI
M. Young – 3 for 4 w/ 3Runs, 4RBIs
N. Cruz – 3 for 4 w/ 3RBIs,
J.Borbon – 2 for 4 w/ 2 Runs
V. Guerrero - 1 for 2 w/ 1Run, 1RBI, 2BBs

Game Recap:– TEX vs PIT

Batting Totals 

Texas Rangers

2B - M Young (23, D Eveland); I Kinsler (11, D Eveland).

HR - M Young (10, 1st inning off P Maholm 1 on, 0 Out).

SF - M Treanor.

RBI - E Andrus (21), M Young 4 (49), I Kinsler 2 (19), V Guerrero (58), D Murphy (22), N Cruz 3 (38), M Treanor (21).

2-out RBI - E Andrus, M Young 2, I Kinsler, N Cruz 2.

Runners left in scoring position, 2 out - E Andrus 1, D Murphy 1, J Smoak 1, M Treanor 2, J Borbon 1.

Team LOB - 13.

Pittsburgh Pirates

2B - D Young (8, D Nippert); B Crosby (6, M Harrison).

SF - N Walker.

RBI - N Walker (10), P Alvarez (3), D Young (15).

2-out RBI - P Alvarez, D Young.

Runners left in scoring position, 2 out - J Tabata 2, D Young 2.

Team LOB - 7.