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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Facing Yu Darvish has been no problem for the Oakland Athletics. They have beaten the Texas Rangers Japanese ace four times, more than any other team. Brandon Moss and John Jaso homered, Jarrod Parker went seven scoreless innings for his fourth consecutive victory and the AL West-leading As beat the Rangers 6-2 on Tuesday night. "We may do better against him than other teams, maybe, because we see him more often being in our division and we always seem to get him," Moss said. "But at the same time, it is really hard to face him because hes so unique and so different." Darvish (7-3) had 10 strikeouts in his six innings, but the As never trailed after Moss led off the second with his 13th homer. Jaso added a leadoff shot an inning later for 3-0 lead. Parker (6-6) limited the Rangers to two runs and three hits over seven innings to improve to 4-0 his last five starts. The right-hander is 4-1 in five career starts against Texas. And this time, he outpitched Darvish, though he tried not to think about the opposing pitcher. "You know who youre going up against," Parker said. "Its something you know you have to be on your game, but you dont change too much because then you catch yourself trying to do too much and not be who you are." Oakland (43-30) has a three-game division lead and will leave Texas later this week after the four-game series is done still in first place. A night after breaking a six-game losing streak with a series-opening 8-7 victory in which the Rangers matched their run total during the skid, their only runs came on a play in the third when Ian Kinsler had a vicious collision at the plate. Kinslers face slammed into the mask of catcher Jaso while sliding feet-first. Kinsler needed three stitches near his left jaw and had blood on his jersey when he finally returned to the field to play second base. He scored on a two-run single by A.J. Pierzynski, having to hold up momentarily from second to make sure the ball dropped before running and then was waved home by third base coach Gary Pettis. The jarring hit jerked Kinslers head backward, but he reached over with his foot to touch the plate, picked up his helmet and got up to go back to the dugout with the Rangers within 3-2. Home plate umpire Paul Nauert pointed out the cut to Kinsler, and rookie teammate Jurickson Profar cringed when he saw it. The start of the fourth was delayed several minutes while Kinsler got stitches and team physician Dr. Keith Meister also screened him for any concussion symptoms. "We had trainers making sure to relay the message to the umpires I was trying to get back in the game," said Kinsler, who otherwise offered mostly short, terse answers to questions in an interview that lasted less than a minute. As manager Bob Melvin was informed by umpires what was going on and had no problem with how the situation was handled. "No rule for it, more of a judgment. Its just like someone going to the bathroom I guess," he said. "It wouldnt have broken my heart if Kinsler came out of the game, lets put it that way. Hes a tough kid." While getting stitches, Rangers team physician Dr. Keith Meister also screened Kinsler for any concussion symptoms. The blood-stained jersey conjured up the memory of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan when he was hit on the mouth by a Bo Jackson comebacker on Sept. 8, 1990, and kept pitching with blood dripping onto his jersey. Ryan, now the Rangers CEO, was sitting in the front row near the Texas dugout Tuesday night. After play resumed, Josh Donaldson singled and Seth Smith doubled for the As. Donaldson scored on a wild pitch and Smith came home on first baseman Lance Berkmans error. Moss had a leadoff triple in the eighth, and scored on Donaldsons sacrifice fly. Darvish had a 2.08 ERA his previous five starts, including four consecutive no-decisions after a 1-0 loss to Oakland on May 21 started his winless streak. That was five days after his last victory, 10-4 over Detroit. The only 1-2-3 inning for Darvish was the sixth. He allowed five runs, four earned, and six hits. There were also two walks, a balk and that wild pitch and he fell to 1-4 in his career against Oakland. "I didnt feel that I pitched badly," Darvish said through his interpreter. "But I think I gave up runs too easily." Notes: Oakland is 25-11 since May 11, best record in the majors during that stretch. ... Jaso has reached based in 17 consecutive games, a career high. ... It was Darvishs 14th career 10-strikeout game. .. Texas starters have gone 17 games this month without a victory. That broke the team record of 16 in a row in 1975. ... Rangers SS Elvis Andrus, hitting .167 his last 25 games, was given a day off by manager Ron Washington. 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Officials said the man was escorting the crane as it moved Esteban Gutierrezs Sauber car, which did not finish the Montreal race. The accident occurred shortly after the checkered flag waved to signal the end of the race, a major weekend sporting event for the city that draws hundreds of thousands of fans to Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. "The recovery vehicle had lifted the car to return it to the pits, and while doing this, the worker dropped his radio and attempted to pick it up," Matteo Bonciani, F1s head spokesman, said as he read a statement to reporters at the track. "As he did this, he stumbled and was hit and run over by the recovery vehicle." The man, in critical condition, was airlifted to Sacre-Coeur Hospital by helicopter after being stabilized by race-track trauma nurses. "Unfortunately, the worker succumbed to his injuries at the hospital," said Bonciani, adding that organizers wanted "to communicate their deepest condolences to the family and friends of the victim." Officials would not immediately release the identity of the victim, but said he was a member of the Automobile Club de lIle Notre Dame. Hospital officials said in a statement that he was a volunteer at the track. "Its terrible," said a visibly shaken Francois Dumontier, the Grand Prixs promoter. "It tarnishes the superb weekend that we had. I am devastated to learn this, I dont have any other words." Gutierrez tweeted about the incident from his verified Twitter account: "My dearest condolences to the family of the marshal who lost his life today, our prayers for him & his family. RIP." Earlier Sunday, Dumontier said the crane operator couldnt see the man when he hit him. "Unfortunately, the vehicles wheel passed over his body," he said before the worker died inn hospital.dddddddddddd The events chief medical officer said a physician, who happened to be nearby when the accident occurred, rushed to the injured worker. The man was still conscious when the doctor arrived at his side, he added. "He went there within 30 seconds (and) started stabilizing him," said Jacques Bouchard. He said trauma workers at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve treated the worker enough to have him taken to hospital by helicopter. He was declared dead a few hours later. Bouchard said the worker, about 38 years old, had been working at the track for 10 years. He said the man was walking with the crane to help stabilize the Sauber car, as it hung from a cable. This wasnt the first death at a Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal. In 1982, Riccardo Paletti, a rookie driver for the Osella team, was killed when he slammed into Didier Pironis stalled car on the starting grid. Other F1 events have also witnessed deaths on the track. A marshal was killed at the 2001 Australian Grand Prix when Canadian Jacques Villeneuves BAR Honda car leapfrogged another car and flew into a concrete retaining wall. The crash sent all four tires and other debris across the track and into a fence. Only six months earlier, a fire marshal at the 2000 Italian Grand Prix died when he was struck by a wheel thrown from a multi-car pileup on the first lap of the race. In 1977, at the South African Grand Prix, race marshal Frederick van Vuuren died in the same incident that killed driver Tom Pryce. Van Vuuren had run onto the track to attend to a stalled car when he was struck by Pryces car. The fire extinguisher he was carrying flew out of his hands and hit Pryce in the head. Other Canadian cities have also had racing-related deaths. At the 1996 Toronto Molson Indy, an official died in the same crash that killed rookie driver Jeff Krasnoff. Another track official was killed at the 1990 Vancouver Molson Indy when the car he was pushing on the track was rammed by another car. ' ' '