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ARLINGTON, Texas - Yu Darvish gave the injury-riddled Texas Rangers a nice send-off on an important road trip that includes all three teams above them in the AL West standings. The Japanese aces first complete game in the major leagues — a shutout, no less — still cant hide a sobering reality. The Rangers are eight games behind Oakland and dangerously close to last-place Houston, a 100-loss team for three years running. Texas just made its 20th move on the disabled list. Four first basemen are on the DL. Left-handed starter Martin Perez wont be back until sometime during the 2015 season. Matt Harrison, another lefty that was supposed to be in the rotation, may be finished for good. Somehow the Rangers will try to find a way to gain ground starting Friday night in visits to Seattle, division-leading Oakland and the Los Angeles Angels. "At some point, weve got to start getting blessed by the baseball gods," manager Ron Washington said. "But we have to make that happen. Theyre not just going to come down and say, OK, you all have been through enough misery. Im going to take you out of it. No, youve got to pull yourself out of your misery." The Rangers have actually done it once already. They started a challenging 11-game trip last month on the biggest downer of the season: news that first baseman Prince Fielder needed neck surgery and was finished for the year. Texas took three of four from AL Central-leading Detroit and ended up winning seven games, capped by Darvishs eight shutout innings in a 2-0 win at Washington. Fielders replacement is the problem this time, with Mitch Moreland finally giving in to the need for surgery on an ailing left ankle. The first report was he would miss three months, but now theres a chance he could opt for a procedure that will reduce his absence to four weeks. Regardless, the Rangers had to give Brad Snyder a crash course on playing first at Triple-A Round Rock, and he started the final two games of the last homestand. Jim Adduci figured to follow Moreland, but he rebroke his left pinkie finger near the end of a rehab assignment and will probably miss another month. The Rangers have used 40 players, and 10 are rookies. They have a majors-leading 14 players on the DL. "I think for a little while, the training staff was like hesitant to deliver some of this news to Wash or myself," general manager Jon Daniels said. "But I think theyve gotten over that unfortunately." With the rotation crumbling around him and the Rangers carrying an AL-worst 4.53 ERA, Darvish is on the best run of his three seasons in the majors. In his last six starts, he is 5-1 with a 1.51 ERA and 59 strikeouts in 47 2-3 innings. "Of course I get comfort with Darvish out there," Washington said before the right-hander ended a four-game losing streak in a 6-0 win over Miami. "Its not just Darvish. Darvish can go out there and pitch real well and if we dont score any runs, it wont matter." Cheap Sacramento Kings Jerseys . Erik Logan, president of the network, said Friday that the postponement was made after meetings with the St. Louis Rams. JaKarr Sampson Jersey http://www.cheapsacramentokingsjerseys.com/?tag=cheap-garrett-temple-jersey . Joakim Nordstrom and Garret Ross also scored for Chicago and Corey Crawford made 30 saves. Tomas Tatar scored twice for Red Wings (2-3-0), Jonathan Ericsson added a goal and Gustav Nyquist had three assists. Cheap Swingman Kings Jerseys . With their coach gone, they finally played offence the way he would have wanted. Amare Stoudemire made all seven shots in the first half, Anthony passed and shot well, and the Knicks shook off the surprising departure of their coach to rout the Portland Trail Blazers 121-79 on Wednesday night, snapping a six-game losing streak. Cheap Kings Jerseys China . Louis Blues are reportedly taking restricted free agent forward Vladimir Sobotka to arbitration.The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired winger Brandon Kozun from the Los Angeles Kings for center Andrew Crescenzi. Kozun, 23, was originally drafted by the Kings in the sixth-round of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He has seen action with the Manchester Monarchs in each of the past four seasons, including 43 games with that club this year. He has 10 goals and 19 assists with a plus-1 rating this season. Kozun was drafted by the Kings in the sixth round (179th overall) of the 2009 NHL Entry DDraft.dddddddddddd Though born in Los Angeles, he was a member of Canadas silver medal-winning 2010 World Junior Hockey Championship team. Crescenzi, 20, is currently playing with the Maple Leafs AHL affiliate, the Toronto Marlies. He has played parts of the last three seasons with the Marlies, turning pro in 2010-11. In 32 games with the Marlies in 2013-14 he has tallied one goal and one assist. The native of Thornhill, Ontario was signed by the Maple Leafs as a free agent on Sept. 24, 2010. ' ' '