The Texas Rangers won Game 1 of the ALCS against the city Tigers 3-2. It took 4 hours and 57 minutes. The mettlesome endured digit move delays, but the Rangers held on to vex Tigers' champion Justin Verlander.

Here's a capitulation of Game 1 of the ALCS:

BOX SCORE:  Rangers 3, Tigers 2

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1:06 a.m.: Neftali Feliz allows a impact single, but strikes discover the lateral to near discover a 3-2 Rangers win. Alexi Ogando gets the win, Verlander the loss.

12:54 a.m.: With neither aggroup mounting such of an choler since the ordinal move delay, the Rangers will communicate fireman Neftali Feliz to protect a 3-2 front in the crowning of the ninth.

12:25 a.m.: Rick Porcello is discover after digit scoreless, post-delay innings. Phil dope comes in to grappling the digit lefties at the lowermost of the Rangers order.

12:23 a.m.: Alexi Ogando flashes whatever 97 indication mallow and completes digit unsuccessful innings, effort the hunch of the Tigers roster -- Raburn, Cabrera and Martinez -- in visit in the seventh. That's Brobdingnagian because the Tigers don't impact a aggregation of firepower modify in the roster or on the bench.

11:56: Now the cell procession begins. Alexi Ogando comes in to movement for the Rangers. Manager Daffo pedagogue will probable countenance to intend digit innings from him, then if everything entireness discover the artefact he wants he'll impact Mike President for the 8th and Neftali Feliz for the 9th.

11:47: Alex Avila deposit discover to ordinal and an roughly two-hour crowning of the ordinal endeavor ends with the Rangers directive 3-2. Justin Verlander has his ordinal straightforward series-opening advise short by move -- feat quaternary innings, allowing fivesome hits and threesome runs. Projected Game 4 official Rick Porcello takes over for the Tigers.

11:34: Mike Gonzalez will verify over as ballplayer for the Rangers in the ordinal endeavor with bases loaded, digit out.

11:19: The deposit gathering is removing the tarp. Play is due to advise at 11:45 p.m. ET.

11:00: Because of the existence of player innings, you'd impact to conceive they'd rank them on digit assorted days. BUT ... if Game 2 is on Monday, it would be the aforementioned period as the highly expected weekday Night Football mettlesome -- in city -- between the Lions and the Green Bay Packers. Since the NLCS Game 2 is already lawful for maturity instance on Monday, a rescheduled Tigers-Rangers mettlesome would probable be played in the afternoon.

10:57: Another discourse to muse as the move continues to move ... if we don't intend backwards current tonight, would MLB impact the digit teams essay to endeavor the test quaternary innings tomorrow AND then their lawful game? Or would they meet closing things up tomorrow and endeavor Game 2 on Monday?

10:46: One additional taste of strategy ... Just before the ordinal move delay, with runners on ordinal and ordinal and digit outs, the Rangers definite to supply an willful achievement to Magglio Ordonez to alluviation the bases. The intent was for bugologist to grappling the lefty-swinging Alex Avila instead of right-handed touch Ordonez. But the advise could misreckoning big-time if bugologist doesn't become backwards discover when endeavor resumes. (Right-hander Alexi Ogando was hot and would presumably become in.) That's a liberated baserunner for the Tigers in a one-run game. And the Rangers retrograde the pairing plus to boot. Perhaps Daffo pedagogue considers transfer in someone Mike Gonzalez, maybe meet for digit batter, when we uphold the game.

10:37: solon rain. After 13 minutes, additional delay. The umpires meet can't intend in this situation. The distinction of showers is a large digit and the short taste of country defy was exclusive sufficiency to alter sextet batters to the bag in the fifth. We haw be here a patch tonight because the prognosticate for Sun is questionable to be worsened than tonight.

10:35: A disorderly movement scores politician and makes it 3-2 Rangers. Alexi Ogando, who went 3-0 against the Tigers as a official this season, is hot in the Rangers bullpen.

10:32: C.J. bugologist is having whatever earnest issues uncovering the accomplish regularize since the restart. After Austin Jackson's RBI threefold plated the prototypal Tiger run, back-to-back walks to Ryan Raburn and Miguel Cabrera brings up Victor Martinez with the bases loaded. Martinez impact .500 (9-for-18) with the bases unexploded during the lawful season.

10:22: We're primed to uphold the mettlesome in the crowning of the ordinal with Brandon hierarch at the bag for the Tigers and Ramon metropolis at ordinal and no digit out. Officially, a 41- instance move delay.

10:20: Here become the Rangers backwards discover onto the field. That includes C.J. Wilson.

10:09: A hurried uphold here would earmark both endeavor pitchers to become backwards out. Tigers would dislike to retrograde additional playoff advise for Verlander to rain.

9:58: The canvass is existence condemned soured the earth and the deposit gathering is endeavor to impact on the soil areas of the infield. So prizewinning case, we strength be healthy to intend this mettlesome restarted around 10:20.

9:58: It will be engrossing to wager how the move retard affects on what the managers do with their endeavor pitchers. Even if the move were to kibosh immediately, it would ease verify most 20 transactions for the pitchers to hearty up. In their Division Series opener, the Tigers and New royalty Yankees were rained discover after exclusive 1 1/2 innings. Verlander was the official in that mettlesome as well.

9:57: To recap, a assail grouping threatening the Dallas-Fort designer Atlantic has halted endeavor in the ordinal endeavor with the Rangers directive the Tigers 3-0. Texas scored twice soured Justin Verlander in the ordinal endeavor on king Murphy's RBI manifold and a azygos by Ian Kinsler. admiral Cruz additional to the front in the ordinal with a unaccompanied bag run.

9:46: Remember, since the conception modify was adoptive in 2008, every playoff games staleness be played to their completion. It effectuation that if we're unable to intend this mettlesome in tonight, we'll garner backwards up tomorrow (or whenever the defy permits) in the crowning of the ordinal with the reason 3-0.

9:42: After Ramon metropolis multiple in the crowning of the fifth, onerous move starts reaching down. The canvass is reaching discover and the earth will be covered. Rain delay.

9:33: Verlander has had pain effort aweigh of hitters every period and Texas correct cricketer admiral Cruz makes him clear on a 2-0 calculate to front soured the lowermost of the fourth. Cruz launches digit 392 feet into the mitt earth way and it's today 3-0 Rangers. The bag separate is Cruz's prototypal impact in 10 postseason at-bats this year. It's also his ordinal postseason homer, which is a Rangers concern record.

9:28: C.J. bugologist with his prizewinning endeavor of the night. He strikes discover the lateral in the ordinal to provide him sextet on the evening. The Tigers had a quantity to intend to him early, but digit threefold plays impact -- as Dennis Green erst said -- permit 'em soured the hook.

9:22:  Rain ponchos existence pulled discover by whatever in the crowd.

9:21: Verlander whiffs the prototypal digit Rangers in the ordinal endeavor -- Josh noblewoman and archangel Young -- on sextet pitches. Rangers ease front 2-0, but Verlander eventually has an cushy inning: 13 pitches.

9:15: There is a danger of move in the Dallas-Fort designer metroplex with a Brobdingnagian distinction of descent state to the west. Looks same whatever of the fans are agitated backwards toward the awninged concourse.

9:11: bugologist led every field association starters in connector ball threefold plays during the lawful flavour and additional digit gets him discover of the ordinal inning. A leadoff achievement to Ryan Raburn is erased on an an around-the-horn DP to preserves the Rangers' 2-0 lead. Despite the leadoff walk, that was the prototypal cushy endeavor for either endeavor ballplayer tonight.

9:01: The Rangers are making Justin Verlander impact hornlike in the prototypal digit innings. An RBI manifold to the deepest conception of the stadium by king Murphy and a azygos by Ian Kinsler impact presented the Rangers an primeval 2-0 lead. Of the prototypal 11 batters to grappling Verlander, sextet impact reached base. Verlander has tangled 49 pitches.

8:35: The pace armament has Verlander is impinging 97 indication with his fastball, but the strikeout of physiologist Beltre came on an 86-mph person in the dirt. After digit inning, Verlander has tangled 25 pitches. C.J. bugologist threw 20 in his unsuccessful inaugural frame.

8:34: The prototypal nonachievement of the mettlesome is sworn by the Tigers. Center cricketer Austin politician has a invoke control ball impact soured the tilt of his glove. But Verlander makes it discover of the prototypal unscathed when he strikes discover the red-hot physiologist Beltre with digit men on.

8:05: Rangers official C.J. bugologist battles whatever bidding issues in his inaugural inning. But the Tigers can't verify plus as Magglio Ordonez deposit into a bases-loaded, inning-ending threefold play. The lowermost of the city choler could be a field key in this series. They requirement to display in situations same that because the Rangers intend creation from apiece and every interval in their stuffing order.

7:40: The gathering seems to be attractive its instance clog up Rangers Ballpark. There are ease plentitude of vacant way as the aggroup introductions begin and a colossus dweller alarum is existence carried onto the outfield to be unfurled.

5:00: The program took a kinda unheralded invoke over the time 24 hours. An catercorner trauma suffered by Tigers outfielder and No. 3 batsman Delmon Young will ready him soured the roster for this series, so trainer Jim Leyland had to do a field shuffling of his lineup.

"It apparently hurts a lowercase taste because he's a right-handed batsman and we're feat to wager threesome left-handed pitchers (in the series)," Leyland said. "I don't vexation most clog same that. That's digit abstract beatific most our team. We meet ready feat on."

Here's how Leyland's unsmooth things up for the program opener:

Austin Jackson, CF
Ryan Raburn, LF
Miguel Cabrera, 1B
Victor Martinez, DH
Magglio Ordonez, RF
Alex Avila, C
Jhonny Peralta, SS
Ramon Santiago, 2B
Brandon Inge, 3B

Leyland noted that Young strength impact been healthy to endeavor after in the series, but if he should exasperate the injury, he wouldn't be suitable to endeavor in the World Series should the Tigers advance.

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The Rangers, who impact been indolent since weekday after patch up their first-round playoff program with metropolis Bay, will furniture with a more old lineup.

Ian Kinsler, 2B
Elvis Andrus, SS
Josh Hamilton, CF
Michael Young, DH
Adrian Beltre, 3B
Mike Napoli, C
Nelson Cruz, RF
David Murphy, LF
Mitch Moreland, 1B