AL puts a hurting on their NL foes
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Barry Bonds strode to the plate with one on and one out in the bottom of the ninth, the Giants trailing by two runs. His team hadn't scored in 20 innings, and needed a big hit.
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Now the Chicago Cubs are really getting beat up &#151; by each other. Carlos Zambrano and catcher Michael Barrett shoved each other in the dugout, then the pitcher busted his teammate's lip in the clubhouse so badly that Barrett wound up in a hospital.
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The Edmonton Oilers are struggling and hurting &#151; a prime target for a team with designs on a division championship.
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Besides suffering a 5-4 loss to the A&#39;s on Thursday, the Rangers saw All-Star second baseman Alfonso Soriano suffer an injury to his left leg while stealing third base in the eighth inning.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - The Oakland Athletics are used to pressure-packed pennant races...
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The bullpens in this series are so beat up and overused -- the Boston pen has thrown 60 innings in six games, the New York relievers have gone 60 2/3, and the two teams are playing their fifth game in five days -- that getting quality innings from a
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This isn&#39;t good news for the Phillies, who thought they had beefed up their pitching staff, or for the Marlins, who felt their offense gave them an edge.
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ST. LOUIS -- This was the kind of deflating loss that would send some teams -- the Cubs come to mind -- into the fetal position. Twelve grueling innings, a booming walkoff two-run homer and 52,144 people screaming loud enough to make your ears ring.
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It would have been easy to take the bait. Acknowledge that, yes, September is a traditionally difficult month offensively for catchers. That the season has been wearing him down. That the injuries he rarely admits to have caught up with him, making his bat slow and his stroke impotent. Instead, Jason Varitek claimed health, blamed his eyes, and thanked, once ...
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Whaddya think? Let him close tonight? He threw only 99 pitches and he was still pumping high-octane gas at the end. Curt Schilling might be good for a batter or two in a pinch tonight.
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ATLANTA, Sept. 27 -- The New York Mets are limping toward the playoffs with one very big problem: Pedro Martinez.
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needs to get into a groove to stop the powerful St. Louis offense. Martinez has. lost five of his last six decisions going back to the regular season.
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The Mets have now lost nine of ten games and in small but distinct ways this dreadful stretch is starting to wear on the team.
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Pedro Martinez felt a twinge in his calf before the game, and felt the effects during a terrible first inning. The New York Mets could only hope a bad outing was the worst of his problems.
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Carlos Almanzar left the game with an apparent right forearm injury with two outs in the ninth...Texas beat the A&#39;s for only the seventh time in 18 outings this season, but have won three of four from Oakland...Mark Kotsay and Jermaine Dye had three hits
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The Oakland A&#39;s have been problematic for the Anaheim Angels for so many years (think the early &#39;70s, late &#39;80s, and the last few seasons) that you&#39;d have thought this was a bigger deal than it was.
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It was Magglio Ordonez's turn to lay a big hurt on his former team, the Chicago White Sox.