Texas Rangers Report

Lineup: Leonys Martin in CF; Nelson Cruz to DH

June, 24, 2012

6/24/12

3:33

PM CT

By Jeff Caplan | ESPNDallas.com

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Leonys Martin returns to the lineup for the first time since playing twice in the San Diego series. He'll man center field with Josh Hamilton in left and David Murphy in right field. Nelson Cruz gets a break from the field and will DH. Martin will be looking to get his left-handed bat cranking. He a lone double in eight at-bats (.125) in the three games he's played this month.

The lineups for today's game between the Texas Rangers and Colorado Rockies (6:05 p.m. on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM and FSSW):

Rockies
RF Eric Young
2B Marco Scutaro
LF Carlos Gonzalez
DH Jason Giambi
C Wilin Rosario
1B Todd Helton
3B Jordan Pacheco
SS Jonathan Herrera
CF Dexter Fowler
RHP Alex White

Rangers
2B Ian Kinsler
SS Elvis Andrus
LF Josh Hamilton
3B Adrian Beltre
1B Michael Young
DH Nelson Cruz
RF David Murphy
C Mike Napoli
CF Leonys Martin
LHP Matt Harrison

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UPCOMING GAMES

	W-L	HM	AW	STK	L10
OAK	43-30	22-12	21-18	W1
TEX	39-32	20-15	19-17	L1

	W-L	HM	AW	STK	L10
OAK	43-30	22-12	21-18	W1
TEX	39-32	20-15	19-17	L1

	W-L	HM	AW	STK	L10
TEX	39-32	20-15	19-17	L1
STL	45-26	20-13	25-13	L1

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TEAM LEADERS

BA LEADER

Adrian Beltre

BA	HR	RBI	R
.303	14	38	40

OTHER LEADERS

RBI

OPS

.857

ERA

2.84

137

JUNE 2013

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1 KC L 1 - 4
2 KC W 3 - 1	3	4 @BOS L 5 - 17	5 @BOS W 3 - 2	6 @BOS L 3 - 6	7 @TOR L 1 - 6	8 @TOR L 3 - 4
9 @TOR W 6 - 4	10 CLE W 6 - 3	11 CLE L 2 - 5	12 CLE L 2 - 5	13 TOR L 1 - 3	14 TOR L 0 - 8	15 TOR L 1 - 6
16 TOR L 2 - 7	17 OAK W 8 - 7	18 OAK L 2 - 6	19 OAK 2 - 0	20 OAK 1:05 PM CT	21 @STL 7:15 PM CT	22 @STL 6:15 PM CT
23 @STL 7:00 PM CT	24	25 @NYY 6:05 PM CT	26 @NYY 6:00 PM CT	27 @NYY 12:05 PM CT	28 CIN 7:05 PM CT	29 CIN 6:15 PM CT
30 CIN 2:05 PM CT

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1	2 SEA 7:05 PM CT	3 SEA 7:05 PM CT	4 SEA 7:05 PM CT	5 HOU 7:05 PM CT	6 HOU 6:15 PM CT
7 HOU 2:05 PM CT	8 @BAL 6:05 PM CT	9 @BAL 6:05 PM CT	10 @BAL 6:05 PM CT	11 @BAL 6:05 PM CT	12 @DET 6:08 PM CT	13 @DET 6:15 PM CT
14 @DET 12:08 PM CT	15	16	17	18	19 BAL 7:05 PM CT	20 BAL 7:05 PM CT
21 BAL 6:05 PM CT	22 NYY 7:05 PM CT	23 NYY 7:05 PM CT	24 NYY 7:05 PM CT	25 NYY 1:05 PM CT	26 @CLE 6:05 PM CT	27 @CLE 6:05 PM CT
28 @CLE 12:05 PM CT	29 LAA 7:05 PM CT	30 LAA 7:05 PM CT	31 LAA 7:05 PM CT

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1	2 @OAK 9:05 PM CT	3 @OAK 3:05 PM CT
4 @OAK 3:05 PM CT	5 @LAA 9:05 PM CT	6 @LAA 9:05 PM CT	7 @LAA 9:05 PM CT	8	9 @HOU 7:10 PM CT	10 @HOU 6:10 PM CT
11 @HOU 1:10 PM CT	12 @HOU 1:10 PM CT	13 MIL 7:05 PM CT	14 MIL 7:05 PM CT	15	16 SEA 7:05 PM CT	17 SEA 7:05 PM CT
18 SEA 2:05 PM CT	19 HOU 7:05 PM CT	20 HOU 7:05 PM CT	21 HOU 7:05 PM CT	22	23 @CHW 7:10 PM CT	24 @CHW 6:10 PM CT
25 @CHW 1:10 PM CT	26 @SEA 9:10 PM CT	27 @SEA 9:10 PM CT	28 @SEA 2:40 PM CT	29	30 MIN 7:05 PM CT	31 MIN 7:05 PM CT

TEAM	W	L	GB	RS	RA
Oakland	43	30	0.0	341	288
Texas	39	32	3.0	306	291
Seattle	32	40	10.5	252	309
LA Angels	31	40	11.0	321	328
Houston	27	45	15.5	277	365

MLB

Final R H E
Athletics 6 7 1
Rangers 2 3 1

Final	R	H	E
Athletics	6	7	1
Rangers	2	3	1

MLB

Top 4th R H E
Athletics 0 2 0
Rangers 2 4 0

Top 4th	R	H	E
Athletics	0	2	0
Rangers	2	4	0

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