The Diamondbacks fire General Manager Kevin Towers after four years on the job.
The Diamondbacks fire General Manager Kevin Towers after four years on the job.
Rangers manager Ron Washington announces he is stepping down for the remainder of the season in order to attend to a personal matter. Bench coach Tim Bogar takes over on an interim basis. The Rangers have the worst record in the majors and have already set a record for most players and pitchers used in a season.
Rangers manager Ron Washington announces he is stepping down for the remainder of the season in order to attend to a personal matter. Bench coach Tim Bogar takes over on an interim basis. The Rangers have the worst record in the majors and have already set a record for most players and pitchers used in a season.
The Rangers, declining to comment on the nature of the matter, announce that Ron Washington has resigned as the team’s manager to attend a personal and off-field matters. The 62 year-old skipper, who will be replaced by Tim Bogar through the end of the season on an interim basis, ends his eight-season tenure with Texas with a 664-611 win-loss record, leading the club to three playoff appearances, and two trips to the World Series.
The Rangers, declining to comment on the nature of the matter, announce that Ron Washington has resigned as the team’s manager to attend a personal and off-field matters. The 62 year-old skipper, who will be replaced by Tim Bogar through the end of the season on an interim basis, ends his eight-season tenure with Texas with a 664-611 win-loss record, leading the club to three playoff appearances, and two trips to the World Series.
The Diamondbacks fire General Manager Kevin Towers after four years on the job.
The Diamondbacks fire General Manager Kevin Towers after four years on the job.
Rangers manager Ron Washington announces he is stepping down for the remainder of the season in order to attend to a personal matter. Bench coach Tim Bogar takes over on an interim basis. The Rangers have the worst record in the majors and have already set a record for most players and pitchers used in a season.
Rangers manager Ron Washington announces he is stepping down for the remainder of the season in order to attend to a personal matter. Bench coach Tim Bogar takes over on an interim basis. The Rangers have the worst record in the majors and have already set a record for most players and pitchers used in a season.
In the Red Sox’ 9-4 victory at Yankee Stadium, Xander Bogaerts and Mookie Betts become the first pair of Boston rookies to hit a home run in the same game at the Bronx ballpark in 62 years. In 1952, Dick Gernert and Faye Throneberry also accomplished the feat, providing the difference in the team’s 3-1 win over the Bombers.
In the Red Sox’ 9-4 victory at Yankee Stadium, Xander Bogaerts and Mookie Betts become the first pair of Boston rookies to hit a home run in the same game at the Bronx ballpark in 62 years. In 1952, Dick Gernert and Faye Throneberry also accomplished the feat, providing the difference in the team’s 3-1 win over the Bombers.
2014 – Battling to stay alive in the AL Central, the Indians suffer a demoralizing loss after they rally from a 4 – 0 1st-inning deficit against defending Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer of the Tigers. They manage to force extra innings, but everything goes wrong in the 11th, when they allow 7 runs to lose, 11 – 4. It’s their second straight crushing loss to the Bengals, after closer Cody Allen gave up a three-run, 9th-inning homer to J.D. Martinez in a 4 – 2 loss yesterday.
2014 – Battling to stay alive in the AL Central, the Indians suffer a demoralizing loss after they rally from a 4 – 0 1st-inning deficit against defending Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer of the Tigers. They manage to force extra innings, but everything goes wrong in the 11th, when they allow 7 runs to lose, 11 – 4. It’s their second straight crushing loss to the Bengals, after closer Cody Allen gave up a three-run, 9th-inning homer to J.D. Martinez in a 4 – 2 loss yesterday.
In the Red Sox’ 9-4 victory at Yankee Stadium, Xander Bogaerts and Mookie Betts become the first pair of Boston rookies to hit a home run in the same game at the Bronx ballpark in 62 years. In 1952, Dick Gernert and Faye Throneberry also accomplished the feat, providing the difference in the team’s 3-1 win over the Bombers.
In the Red Sox’ 9-4 victory at Yankee Stadium, Xander Bogaerts and Mookie Betts become the first pair of Boston rookies to hit a home run in the same game at the Bronx ballpark in 62 years. In 1952, Dick Gernert and Faye Throneberry also accomplished the feat, providing the difference in the team’s 3-1 win over the Bombers.
Bo Porter is dismissed as manager of the Astros
2014 – Bo Porter is dismissed as manager of the Astros as internal dissension over personnel moves comes to a boil. Tom Lawless is named the interim manager. Despite a 110-190 record (.367) in less than two years, Porter had seen his club win more in five months of 2014 than they had the entire 2013 campaign.
he Philadelphia Phillies become the eleventh team in baseball history to throw a combined no-hitter
Cole Hamels of the Phillies combines with three relievers, Jake Diekman, Ken Giles and Jonathan Papelbon, for a 7 – 0 no-hitter over the Braves. Hamels needs 108 pitches to get through the first 6 innings, allowing 5 walks and striking out 7, then each reliever pitches a perfect inning to complete the feat, with Giles striking out all three batters he faces in the 8th.
