ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — This is what Adrian Beltre envisioned when he signed with Texas in the offseason. Balls jumping off his bat in October, the Rangers making another run for the pennant. Beltre hit three straight home runs and the defending AL champions advanced again, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 in Game 4
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Texas slugger Adrian Beltre has hit three home runs in his first three at-bats Tuesday in Game 4 of the AL playoffs at Tampa Bay. Beltre hit solo shots off Jeremy Hellickson in the second and fourth innings, and added another solo drive against Matt Moore during the seventh. Beltre entered the game with just
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ARLINGTON — It wasn’t Babe Ruth pointing to the outfield fence with his baseball bat and following it up with a homerun, but in his own way, Cowboys outside linebacker Anthony Spencer called his shot Monday night against the Washington Redskins. Before the Cowboys defense took the field with 1:40 to play in the fourth
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The year 1915 was a good one for George. He was twenty-one years old, recently married and a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Socks. On May 15 of that year his team was playing the Yankees at the Polo Grounds, with Jack Warhop on the mound for New York. In the third inning, George
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