Francisco Liriano sniffed his second no-hitter of the season until Adrian Beltre led off the eighth inning with a clean single, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Texas Rangers 6-1 on Sunday.
Liriano (4-6), who held the Chicago White Sox hitless last month, was perfect through the sixth, needing only 64 pitches to retire the first 18 batters.
Elvis Andrus was the first Texas player to reach base, on rookie third baseman Luke
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Joe Nathan had his first poor outing of spring training.
He’s not worried.
Nathan, coming back from elbow-reconstruction surgery gave up six runs while getting just one out in the Minnesota Twins split squad’s 6-3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.
“Stuff like that happens,” said Nathan, who had “Tommy John” surgery on his right ulnar collateral ligament last March 26. “There are going to be some situations that I haven’t seen in
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