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| Padres hoping to end Washington visit with sweep |
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09/21/2008 |
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| orts Network) - Veteran lefty Odalis Perez looks for a fifth start without a loss when the Washington Nationals host the San Diego Padres today in the finale of a three-game weekend series at Nationals Park. Perez fell to 5-10 with a 9-2 loss to the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on August 23, but has gone 2-0 in four subsequent outings while allowing 23 hits and 11 earned runs in 21 2/3 innings. He downed the New York Mets in his most recent outing on Tuesday, tossing 7 1/3 scoreless innings and striking ou |
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| Arroyo, Reds aim for sweep of fading Brewers |
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09/21/2008 |
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| ing sweep of Milwaukee today in the finale of a three-game set at Great American Ball Park. The Brewers have been in a free-fall this month, having gone just 4-15 so far in September. Milwaukee can no longer win the National League Central after the Chicago Cubs claimed the division crown on Saturday, and the Brewers are now 2 1/2 games back of the New York Mets for the NL Wild Card spot. Milwaukee had a 5 1/2-game lead for the final playoff position heading into the month. Needing a victory in the worst wa |
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| Cubs clinch NL Central title with win over Cardinals |
MLB Baseball |
09/20/2008 |
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| Chicago, IL (MySportsbook) - Alfonso Soriano hit a two-run single and the Chicago Cubs held off the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-4, to clinch the National League Central division title for the second straight year. Ted Lilly (16-9) gave up four runs on six hits in seven frames with five strikeouts and two walks for Chicago, which has won back-to-back division crowns for the first time in franchise history. Now the Cubs turn their eyes towards the postseason, where they will try to exorcise the club's demons an |
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| Astros, Pirates to resume weekend set |
MLB Baseball |
09/20/2008 |
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| ted wins and losses over his last six starts. The 36-year-old North Carolina native, a veteran of 281 major-league appearances, was 9-4 after a 5-2 defeat of Milwaukee on August 19, but has since gone 2-3 in five starts - including a 6-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Monday. In that loss, Moehler allowed six hits and five runs in five innings. He defeated the Pirates one start earlier by allowing five hits and two runs in six innings. Moehler is 5-4 in 13 games (10 starts) against Pittsburgh. In Friday's seri |
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| CC to try to stop Brewers' bleeding in Cincinnati |
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09/20/2008 |
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| month and now trails the Phillies by two games for the final playoff spot with eight to play. Milwaukee has lost seven of its last eight, including Friday's 11-2 pounding to the Reds. That setback lowered the magic number for the NL Central-leading Chicago Cubs to just one. Mike Cameron and Corey Hart each drove in a run for the Brewers, while Ray Durham exited the game in the fourth inning due to a right hamstring injury. Jeff Suppan, moved up a day after Friday's starter Seth McClung was used in relief o |
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| Cubs go for Central clincher in tilt with Cards |
MLB Baseball |
09/20/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Even a lopsided loss didn't harm the Chicago Cubs' chances for a second straight National League Central title. With its magic number for clinching the division down to one, Chicago will resume a three-game series with the St. Louis Cardinals this afternoon at Wrigley Field. Chicago entered Friday's series opener with a magic number of two and was promptly shelled by St. Louis, 12-6, despite having Carlos Zambrano on the mound. However, the second-place Brewers were beaten by the Reds la |
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| Free-falling Brewers succumb to homer-happy Cincinnati |
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09/20/2008 |
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| Cincinnati, OH (MySportsbook) - Joey Votto and Jay Bruce both homered twice as Cincinnati used the longball to rout Milwaukee, 11-2, in the opener of a three-game set at Great American Ball Park. The loss by the Brewers also lowered the Chicago Cubs' magic number for clinching a second straight NL Central division title to just one. Jerry Hairston Jr., Jolbert Cabrera and Andy Phillips also homered for the Reds, who have won five of their past six contests. Ramon Ramirez (1-0) allowed just two runs on se |
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| A couple of NL races getting interesting |
MLB Baseball |
09/19/2008 |
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| in the coffin of the Milwaukee Brewers' 2008 season. Milwaukee, which earlier this week (and amazingly) fired manager Ned Yost on Monday with 12 games to play, held a 6-2 lead with two outs in the ninth on Thursday at Wrigley Field, only to see the Chicago Cubs score four times to tie the game before winning it in the 12th. If that is not a death knell for the Brewers, then I don't what is. Especially when the Mets and Phillies, behind their respective aces, go out and take full advantage of the Brewers' c |
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| Cubs have chance to clinch in opener with Cards |
MLB Baseball |
09/19/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Carlos Zambrano put himself in the history books last time out by throwing the Chicago Cubs' first no-hitter in 36 years. Now he'll try to lock down the team's second straight National League Central crown when he pitches the opener of a three-game series with the St. Louis Cardinals today at Wrigley Field. On Sunday versus Houston at Milwaukee's Miller Park, Zambrano became the first Cub pitcher to throw a no-hitter since Milt Pappas did so versus San Diego on September 2, 1972. Zambran |
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| Pirates welcome Astros to PNC |
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09/19/2008 |
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| g distance of a National League Wild Card berth before a five-game losing streak coincided with the damaging arrival of Hurricane Ike earlier this week. The team was forced to flee its home at Minute Maid Park to play a key two- game series with the Chicago Cubs in Milwaukee and dropped both before a subsequent three-game midweek sweep at the hands of the Florida Marlins in Miami. Veteran left-hander Randy Wolf takes the mound for the Astros against the Pirates, making his 11th start since being acquired in |
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