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| Sheffield, Tigers again deny Rays AL East title |
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09/27/2008 |
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| the Tigers lead to 6-3. The home runs for Sheffield were his 18th and 19th of the season, giving him his 38th career multi-homer game, and his third this season. Game Notes The makeup of the rained out game on September 13 between the Tigers and the Chicago White Sox is scheduled for Monday at 2:05 p.m. (et) in Chicago, if the game is necessary. If either Minnesota or Chicago leads the AL Central by more than one-half game after Sunday, then the game will not be needed...Verlander needed 113 pitches to get throu |
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| Tigers/White Sox makeup slated for Monday afternoon, if needed |
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09/26/2008 |
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| Chicago, IL (MySportsbook) - The makeup of a rained out game between the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox is scheduled for Monday afternoon in Chicago if the game is necessary. The game, which was rained out on September 13, will take place at 2:05 p.m. (et) in Chicago if one-half game still separates the White Sox and the Minnesota Twins in the AL Central race after play Sunday. The Twins just swept a three-game series in Minnesota between the clubs, and are one-half game ahead of the White Sox. Chic |
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| MLB Races: What are you doing this weekend? |
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09/26/2008 |
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| rap up the best record and home field advantage throughout the playoffs with another win or a Tampa loss. The real excitement comes in the AL Central, which is completely up for grabs. Minnesota enters this final weekend with a half-game edge on the Chicago White Sox after sweeping a three-game set from the Pale Hose. Where is that half-game coming from this late in the season you ask? Well, Chicago still has a game to make up against Detroit. They will play that game on Monday if the half-game is still in play. |
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| Falling White Sox aim to get on track versus Indians |
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09/26/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Chicago White Sox try and get themselves back atop the AL Central standings this evening when they host the Cleveland Indians in the first of three games at U.S. Cellular Field. Chicago blew a five-run lead on Thursday to the Minnesota Twins, who swept the three-game series with a 7-6 win in 10 innings. The loss dropped the White Sox a half game back of the Twins in the division. In the 10th, Nick Punto walked with one out, advanced to second on a Carlos Gomez groundout and moved to third |
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| Twins P Slowey leaves game |
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09/26/2008 |
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| Minneapolis, MN (MySportsbook) - Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Kevin Slowey departed Thursday's 7-6, 10-inning wing against the Chicago White Sox after being hit on his right wrist by a line drive. The victory left the Twins with a half-game lead on Chicago going into the final weekend of the regular season. The Twins let up six runs in the fourth inning to fall behind. It was during that inning when Slowey suffered a contusion of his right wrist. He was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center for x-rays, |
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| Twin killing: Minnesota aims for division lead, sweep of White Sox |
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09/25/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Minnesota Twins have a chance to sweep the Chicago White Sox right out of first place in the American League Central division tonight, when the two ballclubs wrap up a three-game series at the Metrodome. Minnesota has won three in a row, including the first two tests of this set, and recorded a 3-2 victory on Wednesday. Joe Mauer knocked in a pair of runs and Denard Span added the other RBI, as the Twins pulled within a half game of the White Sox for the top spot in the Central standings. |
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| White Sox, Twins to resume crucial Central clash |
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09/24/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Nick Blackburn will try to put a pair of horrid outings behind him and pull the Minnesota Twins closer to the top of the AL Central standings tonight, when he toes the rubber in the second test of a three-game series versus the Chicago White Sox at the Metrodome. Blackburn, who is 10-10 with a 4.15 earned run average in 31 starts, allowed six runs and nine hits in four innings of a 7-3 loss at Baltimore on September 14. He then permitted six more runs and 13 hits in only 1 1/3 frames of his t |
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| Eliminated Yanks continue series in Toronto |
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09/24/2008 |
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| four losses and a 9.00 ERA for Hughes by the end of the month. He spent the next four months either injured or in the minors and didn't return until September 17, when he allowed four hits and a run in four innings of the Yankees' 5-1 defeat of the Chicago White Sox. Hughes is 1-1 in four career starts against Toronto with a 4.22 ERA in 21 1/3 innings. For the Blue Jays, right-hander A.J. Burnett makes the final start of his best major-league season. The 31-year-old Arkansas native, whose previous best single-s |
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| Slumping Tigers try to avoid sweep by Royals |
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09/24/2008 |
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| y a percentage point ahead of the basement-dwelling Tigers in the AL Central. Brian Bannister gets the nod for the Royals on Wednesday and he is only 1-10 in his last 15 starts. He fell to 8-16 in 31 starts this season after a performance versus the Chicago White Sox on September 19, when he yielded seven runs in five innings of a 9-4 loss. Bannister has pitched fairly well against the Tigers this season, going 1-1 in two starts. He last faced them on August 22 and gave up four runs in eight innings of a 4-3 los |
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| Twins crush White Sox, close gap to 1 1/2 games in AL Central |
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09/24/2008 |
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| Minneapolis, MN (MySportsbook) - Jason Kubel clubbed a pair of homers and drove in three runs to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 9-3 win over the Chicago White Sox in the opener of a critical three-game series at the Metrodome. Delmon Young finished 3-for-3 with a home run and two RBI for the Twins, who trail the front-running White Sox by 1 1/2 games in the AL Central. Nick Punto and Carlos Gomez each had two hits and knocked in a run. Scott Baker (10-4) got the win after he allowed one run on five hits in sev |
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