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| Royals still perfect |
MLB Baseball |
04/13/2003 |
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| Field. The Royals have taken the first two contests of the four-game set and improved to 9-0 on the season. The Royals extended baseball's best start in 13 years and are the only unbeaten team remaining. Kansas City is the first club since the 1990 Cincinnati Reds to win its first nine games. The Reds went on to win the World Series that season. Chris George (2-0) worked 5 1/3 innings for the win. He was charged with two runs on seven hits, walked one and struck out three. D.J. Carrasco recorded the final thr |
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| No dynasties for small market teams |
MLB Baseball |
04/08/2003 |
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| spend money on big-name free agents like Edgardo Alfonzo and Ray Durham, who came over from Oakland. Anaheim still has the core of its players back this year. As for the Tigers, they aren't in such a small market compared to teams like the Royals or Cincinnati Reds. However, owner Mike Illitch, who also is in control of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings, seems to have more interest in the success of his hockey team than the Tigers. Trammell took over a team that finished 55-106 in 2002, marking the Tigers' worst sea |
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| Griffey placed on disabled list |
MLB Baseball |
04/07/2003 |
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| Cincinnati, OH (MySportsbook) - Cincinnati Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. was placed on the 15-day disabled list Monday. The move is retroactive to April 6. Griffey left Saturday's game against the Chicago Cubs at the Great American Ball Park after suffering a dislocated right shoulder. He is expected to be sidelined for 6-to-10 weeks. Griffey was injured while trying to make a catch in the top of the eighth inning. The Cubs had the bases loaded when Paul Bako hit a drive to the warning track in left-cente |
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| Griffey sidelined for two months |
MLB Baseball |
04/06/2003 |
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| Cincinnati, OH (MySportsbook) - Cincinnati Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr., who left Saturday's game against the Chicago Cubs after suffering a dislocated right shoulder, is expected to be sidelined for six-to-ten weeks. He was injured while trying to make a catch in the top of the eighth inning at the Great American Ballpark. The Cubs had the bases loaded when Paul Bako hit a drive to the warning track in left-center field. Griffey raced back and attempted to make a diving catch. He came down hard on the d |
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| Injury-plagued Griffey dislocates shoulder |
MLB Baseball |
04/05/2003 |
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| Cincinnati, OH (MySportsbook) - Cincinnati Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. left Saturday's game against the Chicago Cubs at the Great American Ball Park after suffering a dislocated right shoulder while trying to make a catch in the top of the eighth inning. The Cubs had the bases loaded when Paul Bako hit a drive to the warning track in left-center field. Griffey raced back and attempted to make a diving catch. He came down hard on the dirt warning track and remained on the ground, writhing around in pain. |
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| Cincinnati Reds 2003 Preview |
MLB Baseball |
03/27/2003 |
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| Danny Graves (RHP); Ryan Dempster (RHP); Jimmy Anderson (LHP); Paul Wilson (RHP) PROJECTED CLOSER: Scott Williamson (RHP) MANAGER: Bob Boone OVERVIEW When the Great American Ball Park opens its doors on March 31st, a new day will be dawning for the Cincinnati Reds. The memories of recent failures at Cinergy Field have gone up in a cloud of dust and the page will officially be turned when Pittsburgh comes to town. A new revenue source in the form of the gorgeous park has cash flowing into the Reds' front offic |
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| Reds' Castro goes on DL |
MLB Baseball |
03/25/2003 |
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| Sarasota, FL (MySportsbook) - Cincinnati Reds infielder Juan Castro was placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday. Castro is suffering from inflammation in his left knee. In 54 games last season for Cincinnati, Castro hit .220 with two home runs and 11 RBI. The 30-year-old Castro, who is entering his ninth big league season, owns a career batting average of .211 with 11 homers and 70 RBI. Now in his fourth season with the Reds, Castro also played five seasons with the Dodgers. |
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| Devil Rays release Greg Vaughn |
MLB Baseball |
03/22/2003 |
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| f the season. "It's bitter because I didn't play the way I wanted to play," Vaughn said. "But it's good because now I have an opportunity to catch on somewhere else. This is new for me, so I wasn't sure how I was going to feel. But we had sort of a negative beginning [before Spring Training] so it's not a surprise. It's a relief, sort of." Vaughn, who signed with the Devil Rays before the 2000 season, hit 45 home runs with the Cincinnati Reds the year before and 50 home runs with the San Diego Padres in 1998. |
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| Reds sign Lopez |
MLB Baseball |
03/03/2003 |
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| Cincinnati, OH (MySportsbook) - The Cincinnati Reds signed infielder Felipe Lopez to a one-year contract on Monday. Lopez, 22, made his major league debut with Toronto in 2001 and played in 134 games over the past two seasons for the Blue Jays. The switch-hitting Lopez has a .240 career average with 13 home runs and 57 RBI. |
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| Matsui and Thome homer in spring training debuts |
MLB Baseball |
02/27/2003 |
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| es in December and most of the focus has been on him this spring. His at-bats were actually broadcast live in high-definition television back in Japan in the early morning hours there. Matsui went 1-for-3 in Thursday's game, but New York fell to the Cincinnati Reds, 9-3. He grounded out in his first at-bat in the second inning, but then came to the plate with a man on first with two outs in the third. He then belted a 3-2 pitch from Jimmy Anderson over the wall down the right field line. Thome homered in his f |
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