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| Big Unit put in charge of cooling off Howard, Phillies |
MLB Baseball |
07/12/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Ryan Howard tries to continue his offensive onslaught when the Philadelphia Phillies resume their three-game series with the Arizona Diamondbacks this afternoon at Citizens Bank Park. Howard belted his fourth home run in his last three games in Friday's opener, and Jayson Werth knocked in the winning run as the Phillies pulled out a 6-5 win in 12 innings. Werth ended with three hits, while Shane Victorino was 3- for-6 with a pair of RBI and finished a home run short of the cycle for Philadelphia |
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| Phillies edge D'Backs on Werth's 12th-inning single |
MLB Baseball |
07/11/2008 |
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| Philadelphia, PA (MySportsbook) - Jayson Werth's game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the 12th inning gave the Philadelphia Phillies a 6-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in a back-and-forth opener of a three-game series. Werth finished with three hits and stepped to the plate with a pair of runners on in his final at-bat. Connor Robertson, in his second inning of relief, threw a 2-2 slider to the outside part of the plate, and Werth went out and poked it past Orlando Hudson at second. So Taguchi, who |
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| Struggling D'Backs, Phils meet at Citizens Bank Park |
MLB Baseball |
07/11/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Two teams struggling to maintain their division leads square off tonight when the Philadelphia Phillies welcome the Arizona Diamondbacks to town for the first of three games at Citizens Bank Park. Philadelphia is clinging to a 1 1/2-game lead over the Florida Marlins and New York Mets in the NL East, while the Diamondbacks maintain a one-game advantage over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the West. The Phillies, though, seem to have gotten back on the right track after winning the final two games of |
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| Banged-up Marlins open set with Dodgers |
MLB Baseball |
07/10/2008 |
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| up the perfect game bid with a leadoff single in the seventh. Matt Kemp homered for the Dodgers, while former Brave Andruw Jones added an RBI single. The win, Los Angeles' seventh in nine games, moved the Dodgers into a tie atop the NL West with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Chan Ho Park makes his fifth start of the season for the Dodgers tonight. He has won his last two decisions and faced the Giants on Saturday. He gave up just a run on three hits over six innings of a no-decision. The right-hander is 1-0 with a 1.29 |
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| Haren goes for D'Backs in finale with Nats |
MLB Baseball |
07/10/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Right-hander Dan Haren tries for his second win against Washington this season when his Arizona Diamondbacks visit the Nationals for the third and final game of a three-game series at Nationals Park. Haren, who came to the Diamondbacks in the offseason after winning 15 games for Oakland in 2007, defeated Washington, 5-0, on June 1. In that win, he allowed four hits in seven scoreless innings, walking three batters and striking out five while improving his career mark against the Nationals to 2-1 |
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| Lowe loses bid for perfect game, but still beats Braves |
MLB Baseball |
07/10/2008 |
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| ven innings before Mark Teixeira doubled in the eighth en route to a one-hit shutout. Matt Kemp homered for the Dodgers, while former Brave Andruw Jones added an RBI single. The win moved the Dodgers into a tie atop the National League West with the Arizona Diamondbacks, who lost 5-0 in Washington on Wednesday. Tim Hudson (9-7) nearly matched Lowe in a losing effort, retiring the first 12 batters and allowing two runs on four hits in seven innings as the Braves lost for the eighth time in their last 11 games. Jeff |
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| Owings, Diamondbacks continue series with Nats |
MLB Baseball |
07/09/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Right-hander Micah Owings returns to the starting rotation tonight after a nearly two-week absence when the Arizona Diamondbacks visit the Washington Nationals for game two of a three-game series at Nationals Park. Owings, a third-round pick of the Diamondbacks in 2005, last started on June 27 before missing a turn in the rotation with a sore gluteus muscle. He made his first relief appearance of the season on July 4 against San Diego and got two outs in the ninth inning of Arizona's 5-1 loss. H |
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| Webb goes for win No. 13 in DC |
MLB Baseball |
07/08/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Right-hander Brandon Webb tries for a second straight shutout of the Washington Nationals tonight when the Arizona Diamondbacks visit them for game one of a three-game series at Nationals Park. Webb, who opened the season with nine straight victories, earned win No. 10 against Washington on May 31 in Phoenix, while scattering six hits over nine innings, walking none and striking out eight. He's 2-2 in six starts since, including a 6-2 win at Florida on June 28. Webb, whose 12 wins are tied with |
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| Braves visit Dodgers for three |
MLB Baseball |
07/07/2008 |
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| en-game trek against Houston and San Francisco with a 5-2 record, winning three of four tests with the Astros before taking two of its three matchups with the rival Giants. The encouraging trip has moved the Dodgers within a half-game of the reeling Arizona Diamondbacks for first place in the National League West. The Dodgers earned a series win over San Francisco with Sunday's 5-3 decision, fueled by a 2-for-4, three-RBI effort at the plate from first baseman James Loney. Andre Ethier also had a big afternoon for |
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| Big Unit snaps losing streak as Arizona avoids sweep by San Diego |
MLB Baseball |
07/06/2008 |
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| Phoenix, AZ (MySportsbook) - Randy Johnson snapped a six-start losing streak with 6 1/3 vintage innings, as the Arizona Diamondbacks hung on for a 3-2 win to avoid a three-game sweep at the hands of the San Diego Padres. Johnson (5-7) struck out 10 and allowed one run on a leadoff homer, one of just three hits surrendered for the veteran lefty, who had not won since tossing six shutout innings against the Detroit Tigers on May 18. "Obviously things were a lot better today, but it was just one game," Johnson said |
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