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| Boston's Dice-K puts road mark on line in Baltimore |
MLB Baseball |
08/19/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Daisuke Matsuzaka tries to remain unbeaten on the road this season when the Boston Red Sox play the middle test of their three-game series with the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. Matsuzaka is a perfect 6-0 in his nine starts away from home this season, while pitching to a 2.04 earned run average. Actually, it hasn't mattered where the Japanese right-hander has pitched lately, as he is 3-0 over his last three starts overall, allowing just three runs in 21 innings of those outings. He was b |
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| O's Mora, ChiSox Vazquez share AL weekly honor |
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08/18/2008 |
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| New York, NY (MySportsbook) - Baltimore Orioles third baseman Melvin Mora and Chicago White Sox pitcher Javier Vazquez were both named the American League Player of the Week for the period ending August 17. Mora hit a sizzling .563 for the week (18-for-32) with three homers, 13 RBI, four doubles and a triple, also posting a robust 1.031 slugging percentage. In Baltimore's four-game set at Cleveland last week, Mora went 8-for-18 with a pair of doubles and three runs batted in. He topped that performance with a |
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| Boston hopes to get untracked in Baltimore |
MLB Baseball |
08/18/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Jon Lester hopes to get the Boston Red Sox back in the win column this evening when they open a three-game series with the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. After scoring 37 runs in winning all three games from its series with the Texas Rangers, Boston's bats were silenced over the weekend by the Toronto Blue Jays, who swept a rain-shortened two-game set at Fenway Park. Shaun Marcum followed up Roy Halladay's brilliant performance from Saturday on Sunday, as he held the Red Sox to just a run |
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| Baltimore outslugs Tigers behing Mora's six RBI |
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08/17/2008 |
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| Detroit, MI (MySportsbook) - Melvin Mora hit two homers and drove in a career-high six runs while Luke Scott hit a pair of home runs and knocked in four, as the Baltimore Orioles hammered the Detroit Tigers, 16-8, in the rubber match of a three-game series at Comerica Park. Mora finished 5-for-6 with a pair of doubles and four runs scored while Scott added a double. Aubrey Huff chipped in with a two-run homer, double and three runs scored for the Orioles, who have won four of their last five. Nick Markakis ad |
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| Tigers, Orioles to hold Motor City rubber match |
MLB Baseball |
08/17/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Red-hot right-hander Zach Miner makes his sixth start of 2008 when the Detroit Tigers host the Baltimore Orioles today in the third and final game of a weekend series at Comerica Park. Miner, who had started 17 times in 61 appearances over his initial two big- league seasons, made 32 straight trips from the bullpen to begin 2008 before making start No. 1 on July 21 at Kansas City. He downed the Royals with six innings of scoreless three-hit ball in that game and has gone 2-1 with a no-decisio |
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| Verlander, Tigers top Orioles |
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08/16/2008 |
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| Detroit, MI (MySportsbook) - Miguel Cabrera and Carlos Guillen both homered in the fourth, as the Tigers took a 5-3 victory from the Baltimore Orioles, knotting their three-game series at a game apiece. Justin Verlander (9-13) went six innings allowing just two unearned runs and four hits. The righty struck out six and walked three in his first win since July 20. He had lost his previous four starts. "I was able to get some swings and misses when I needed them and some ground balls," Verlander said. "After (t |
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| Fading Tigers resume series with visiting Orioles |
MLB Baseball |
08/16/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Reliever-turned-starter Daniel Sarfate begins a game for the fourth time in his career when the Baltimore Orioles visit Comerica Park tonight for the second of three weekend dates with the host Detroit Tigers. Sarfate, a 27-year-old from Queens, N.Y., had made 15 relief appearances over two seasons with Milwaukee and Houston before heading to Baltimore for the 2008 season. He began the year in the bullpen and made 45 straight appearances in relief before getting the starting call at Yankee St |
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| Angels aim to even weekend set with Indians |
MLB Baseball |
08/16/2008 |
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| els, who have dropped consecutive games on the heels of a five-game winning streak. Getting the ball for the Indians this afternoon will be right-hander Fausto Carmona, who is 5-4 with a 4.91 ERA. Carmona did not get a decision on Monday against the Baltimore Orioles, as he allowed seven runs and six hits in 6 1/3 innings of his team's 13-8 win. Carmona will be making just his second-ever start against the Angels and has yet to record a decision against them in four games. However, he has not given up a run in 1 |
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| Mora helps Orioles crush Tigers |
MLB Baseball |
08/15/2008 |
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| Detroit, MI (MySportsbook) - Melvin Mora tripled, homered and drove in four runs to help give the Baltimore Orioles an 11-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers in the opener of a three-game set. Chris Waters gave up two runs on eight hits in 4 2/3 innings, making in his third career start. He struck out one and walked one in the victory. Lance Cormier (2-3) pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings in relief to earn the win. Brian Roberts went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored, and Aubrey Huff added three hits and two R |
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| Orioles agree to terms with first-round pick |
MLB Baseball |
08/15/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - The Baltimore Orioles on Friday agreed to terms with pitcher Brian Matusz. Matusz was the club's first-round pick and fourth overall selection in the 2008 First Year Player Draft. The 21-year-old left-hander spent three years at the University of San Diego and was named the 2008 West Coast Conference pitcher of the year after leading the NCAA with 141 strikeouts and tying for fifth among Division I pitchers with 12 wins. Matusz was originally selected by the Angels in the fourth |
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