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ARLINGTON, Texas -- While the Texas Rangers are getting close to clinching another AL West title, their top two pitchers are struggling a bit.Yu Darvish matched a career high allowing seven runs, a night after All-Star lefty Cole Hamels had another subpar outing, and the AL-best Rangers lost 11-2 to the Oakland Athletics on Saturday night.We believe in those two guys, in Cole and Darvish, manager Jeff Banister said. Still believe theyre as good as there is out there.Darvish (5-5) struck out eight in his five innings, but walked four batters -- all of those runners scored -- and allowed two homers.Ive been having good command throughout this year. Today I didnt have it, Darvish said through his translator. I think its because I wasnt getting a good feel for it physically, and a feel for the pitches. Im not talking about pain or anything, its just the feel. I just didnt pitch well today.Joey Wendle led off the game with his first major league homer and Marcus Semien also went deep against Darvish.Carlos Gomez homered for the Rangers (88-61), whose magic number to clinch the division title dropped to five after Houston won 2-1 at Seattle later Saturday night. The Astros and Mariners are both 9 1/2 games back in the AL West with two weeks left in the regular season.Hamels has allowed at least six runs in three of his four starts, including the series opener Friday night against the As when he allowed six runs in six innings before the Rangers rallied to win the game with two outs in the ninth.There would be no big comebacks Saturday night, after which both Hamels and Darvish will likely have no more than two more starts before the postseason.Darvish has put together some quality starts in there, Banister said. With Cole, obviously, weve seen some challenges, hes been nicked a little bit, but still, these guys are still throwing quality pitches. ... I feel like that these guys are going to continue to find their rhythm and make good pitches for us.Raul Alcantara (1-1), among five As pitchers to make their MLB debuts this season with a start, had three strikeouts without a walk. He pitched into the sixth, when he allowed a two-run homer to Gomez.Danny Valencia added another three-run homer for the As, his 17th, in the eighth off Dario Alvarez.Wendle, a rookie second baseman in his 15th career game, hit a 1-1 pitch into the left-field seats. His sacrifice fly in the second made it 4-0, after Darvish had walked the bases loaded to start the second and Bruce Maxwell hit a two-run singleSemiens three-run homer in the fifth, his 26th, made it 7-0 against Darvish.I noticed that early the fastball command wasnt there. So you get him looking in one spot, Semien said. Hes going to throw it in there. He throws a lot of offspeed too, so we were able to key in on one pitch and did a good job.NO A FOR YU VS OAKLANDDarvish is now 2-9 in 13 career starts against Oakland. No other team has beaten Darvish more than four times. When Darvish last faced Oakland -- a day after his 30th birthday exactly a month ago Saturday -- he struck out nine and walked one in seven innings in a 6-2 victory. Before that, he had gone 0-8 in 10 starts against the As since winning against them more than four years earlier in only his eighth game after coming from Japan.TRAINERS ROOMAthletics: RHP Sonny Gray, out since Aug. 7 with a strained right forearm, threw all of his pitches during a 31-pitch bullpen session. He will get a couple of days off before another bullpen, and could still potentially pitch in another game this season.Rangers: DH/1B Prince Fielder was in the dugout for the first time since announcing last month that he couldnt play again after a second spinal fusion surgery. 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The two drivers clashed at the Chinese GP and were in the wars again on the first lap at Sochi when Kvyat, who succeeded Vettel at Red Bull, twice hit the rear of the Germans car.After crashing into the wall, a furious Vettel repeatedly swore over team radio before commandeering a marshals motorbike to return to the pits, where he confronted Red Bull boss Christian Horner on the teams pitwall. All I could do was apologise because this week it was a mistake by Daniil Kvyat, Horner told Sky Sports F1.Danii just misjudged his braking spot. Emotions run high, in his home race I think he has just gone for too much too soon at the start. Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene thundered: Once is acceptable but to hit him twice is unacceptable.Vettel has failed to finish two of the opening four races of the season and already trails Nico Rosberg by 67 points in the standings.You saw more than me, its fairly clear, Vettel told Sky Sports F1 after his retirement. I got a big hit and was lucky not to spin into Turn Two, then another huge hit which turned me around and I couldnt avoid hitting the barriers.Theres nothing I could have done differently. If anybody needs to talk to anybody, I think its him.While Kvyat pleaded his innocence in Shanghai after enraging Vettel with an aggressive move into the first corner, he was adjudged to have been at fault in Sochi with the Russian driver handed a drive-through penalty by the stewards.It is easy now to attack me and I guess everyone will, but I dont really care about that, said Kvyat. The second touchh he slowed down a lot and I didnt have time to react.dddddddddddd I apologise to everyone that is involved. I think we have to speak, we have to talk.Its understood that Kvyat subsequently phoned Vettel - who left the circuit before his scheduled media appearance - to offer an apology. 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