Rangers ace Cliff Lee. But his championship with the Angels came before he played in San Francisco. The Rangers acquired Molina to help settle their catching situation, and he shares time with Matt Treanor. Molina played 57 regular-season games with Texas and 61 for the Giants.
Texas began the season with Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Taylor Teagarden behind the plate. Both young catchers were optioned to the minors less than a month into the season and Saltalamacchia has since been traded. Texas was already leading the AL West when Molina got there. Now the two teams meet in a situation Molina never really imagined. He was the Angels' starter in when they defeated the Giants in seven games. Overall he's been in 38 playoff games, hitting.
Molina is regarded as a superior clutch hitter. He drove in at least 80 runs in each of his three full seasons with the Giants. And his blast against A. Moments earlier, Nelson Cruz notes had advanced to second on a fly out to center fielder Curtis Granderson notes , prompting Yankees manager Joe Girardi to order left-handed hitting David Murphy notes to be walked intentionally. Molina turned on an inside pitch and drove it into the left-field seats to transform a one-run deficit into a lead.
He's also providing the same leadership and knowledge to Rangers pitchers that he did for Lincecum, Cain and Wilson. Young starters C. Wilson notes and Colby Lewis notes say they have benefited from his ability to call a game, and rookie closer Neftali Feliz notes has become a Molina disciple.
When he says something, everybody listens. They especially will tune in now. Because he knows the Giants staff so well, Molina might be of greater help to his fellow Rangers hitters than to the pitchers.
It doesn't smack of betrayal, because everybody has to do what it takes to win. And if the Giants can overcome Molina's input and defeat the Rangers, they'd award him a championship ring for his service the first half of the season. He might even get a winner's share of the playoff cash pool regardless who wins. If so, he ought to accept the spoils. That's part of the game, too. An Orange County mom has filed a police complaint after her daughter was left with a concussion from a sucker punch during a youth basketball game.
After two and a half years with the 49ers and zero games played, Jalen Hurd has been released. The 49ers announced today that they have released Hurd, who had been on injured reserve. A talented athlete who had [more]. Steph had a great reaction as Anthony Edwards told him he was chasing a milestone in Wednesday night's Warriors-T-Wolves game. Bob Myers believes the Warriors will benefit from situations like the one between Draymond and Jordan Poole on the bench Wednesday.
Powerful agent Scott Boras was critical of "the fact that the system allowed" Atlanta to win the World Series, despite being under. Instead, it's which one to present - there is a fanciest version - to a bit player during a championship season.
A guy who was with the club at one time, that's usually how it works in our game. I heard Uggla was very excited about it, which is good. Granted it was a short time, but he was here and part of our club. They've done something. Probably not, just because he probably didn't feel like he contributed to it, but to show your grandkids and your kids one day that he was on that team.
No matter that some fans wanted to ring him up for his struggling stay in the Bay Area. He wasn't about to apologize for walking off with a World Series ring. It worked out the best. I needed to go home and regroup and do a bunch of stuff. They had some young studs coming up, like Matt Duffy and Panik. It was crunch time.
They needed help right then, and I'm not sure I would have been able to do that for them.
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