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| Chicago OF Swisher leaves game |
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08/26/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - Chicago White Sox center fielder Nick Swisher left Tuesday's 8-3 win against the Baltimore Orioles with a lower left leg contusion. Swisher, who hit a two-run homer in the first inning, fouled a ball off his shin before string out in the fourth inning and was replaced in center field by Brian Anderson to start the bottom of the fourth. In 126 games with Chicago this season, he is batting .234 with 22 home runs and 65 RBI. He spent his first four season in the majors with Oakland |
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| Red Sox try to stay in playoff hunt at Yankee Stadium |
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08/26/2008 |
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| st them with a 3.54 ERA in 31 games (29 starts). New York, of course, will have to finish strong if it plans on keeping its streak of 13 straight playoff appearances intact. The Yankees helped themselves a little over the weekend, sweeping the lowly Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards, culminating with an 8-7 win on Sunday. Robinson Cano went 4-for-5, and hit the go-ahead homer in the seventh inning to lift the Yanks to the win in the finale, as they won for the fourth time in five tries and completed a six-game r |
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| White Sox scratch out win over O's |
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08/26/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - Alexei Ramirez went 4-for-5 with two runs scored as the Chicago White Sox downed the Baltimore Orioles, 4-3, in the opener of a three-game set at Camden Yards. Jim Thome hit a solo home run while Ken Griffey Jr. drove in a run for the White Sox, who dropped two of three against Tampa Bay over the weekend. "He's hungry, he loves to play and he has a lot of abilities and he makes them work for him," said Chicago manager Ozzie Guillen about Ramirez, who tied a career-high with the |
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| Orioles win suspended game |
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08/26/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - Lou Montanez's RBI single in the 14th inning gave the Baltimore Orioles a 4-3 win over the Chicago White Sox to complete a rain-suspended game that had originally started on April 28. The game was originally played at U.S. Cellular Field, but since the teams would not meet in Chicago for the rest of the season, it was completed at Camden Yards with Chicago as the home team before the opener of a three-game set. In the 14th inning, Nick Markakis singled to start the frame and Kev |
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| Orioles' Burres to start Tuesday |
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08/25/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - The Baltimore Orioles announced after Monday's 4-3 loss to Chicago that the team will recall pitcher Brian Burres on Tuesday to start the game that night against Chicago. Burres was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk on August 1 after giving up four runs on four hits in a 1 1/3 inning performance against the Yankees on July 30. On the season, the 27-year-old is 7-7 with a 5.64 earned run average in 19 starts and three relief appearances. To make room on the roster, the team optioned p |
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| White Sox, O's get going in Baltimore |
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08/25/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Rookie southpaw Clayton Richard will attempt to keep the Chicago White Sox in possession of first place in the American League Central tonight when they open a three-game set with the host Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. However, before the series gets underway the suspended game from back on April 28 at U.S. Cellular Field will be completed. That game was tied at 3-3 in the 11th inning before rain caused the game to be suspended. Baltimore's George Sherrill and Chicago's Scott Linebrink w |
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| Cano's homer lifts Yankees to win, sweep of Orioles |
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08/24/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - Robinson Cano went 4-for-5, and hit the go- ahead homer in the seventh inning as the New York Yankees edged the Baltimore Orioles, 8-7, to complete a three-game sweep at Camden Yards. Johnny Damon had a three-run homer for the Yankees, who have won four of their last five contests. Xavier Nady knocked in a pair and Jason Giambi had a sacrifice fly. Mariano Rivera earned a four-out save, his 31st of the season. "We had some big hits and that's all we can ask for," Damon said. "It |
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| Cabrera standing in the way of Yanks' potential sweep of Orioles |
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08/24/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Daniel Cabrera tries for his fourth win against the New York Yankees his season as his Baltimore Orioles attempt to salvage the finale of their three-game set with their AL East rivals at Camden Yards. Cabrera has beaten the Yankees all three times he has faced them in 2008, pitching to a 3.15 earned run average in those outings. He has opposed New York 16 times over the course of his career and is 6-6 with a 4.56 ERA. The 27-year-old right-hander was charged with the loss on Tuesday against |
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| Pavano successful in return as Yanks down O's |
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08/23/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - Carl Pavano was convincing in his first start since April 9, 2007 and Hideki Matsui hit a home run to record the 500th run batted in for his career, as the New York Yankees edged the Baltimore Orioles, 5-3, in the middle contest of a weekend set from Camden Yards. Pavano (1-0) signed a four-year deal worth close to $40 million with New York prior to the 2005 campaign, but has only started 20 games for the club in that span. After missing all of the 2006 campaign, Pavano appeared |
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| Yankees activate Pavano |
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08/23/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - The New York Yankees have activated pitcher Carl Pavano off the 60-day disabled list to make Saturday's start against the Baltimore Orioles. Pavano has been working his way back from reconstructive elbow surgery performed last June 5 and will make his first start for the Yankees since April 9, 2007, when he beat the Minnesota Twins. The 32-year-old right-hander has had nothing but injury problems since signing a four-year, $39.95 million contract with the Yankees before the 2005 |
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