Florida Marlins: Rangers Pitcher

Baseball History Dept: Certainly not by fretting about a right arm that in June seemed to have lost its cunning. Certainly not by dissecting theories as to why he lost three straight starts after opening the season with seven consecutive winning decisions. Baseball history is littered with tales of meteoric starts and subsequent stumbles by pitching neophytes, which Ogando still is, even at age 27, according to The Star. Ogando s tale is better than balls, strikes and 95-m.p.h. fastballs. It is, says Rangers manager Ron Washington at t of his fifth decade in professional baseball, like nothing he ever has seen or heard in the game and aRLINGTON, TEXAS Where to begin in the improbable tale of Rangers pitcher Alexi Ogando, who was signed by the Oakland Athletics in 2002 when they believed him to be an outfielder by the name of Argenis Benitez? Besides, Friday s 6.2-inning performance against the Florida Marlins, which was good for his eighth victory of the season and included a career-high eight strikeouts, should be enough to temporarily appease any doubters. As reported in the news.
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