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| Angels continue homestand with visit from Rangers |
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08/28/2008 |
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| ced them and is 4-8 lifetime against them with a 5.87 ERA in 18 games, 17 of which have been starts. Texas will counter with righty Brandon McCarthy, who will be making just his second start of the season. McCarthy received a no-decision against the Cleveland Indians on Saturday, allowing just a run and three hits in four innings of the Rangers' 8-7 loss. McCarthy has faced the Halos six times (2 starts) and is 0-1 with a 4.38 ERA. The Rangers won their third straight game on Wednesday, as Jarrod Saltalamacchia |
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| Rangers go for sweep in KC |
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08/27/2008 |
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| ord to 5-2 with consecutive defeats of the New York Yankees, Baltimore and Tampa Bay between Aug. 5 and 16. He fell slightly back to Earth on Aug. 22, however, after being roughed up for seven hits and five runs in 3 2/3 innings of a 7-5 loss to the Cleveland Indians. Overall, the 23-year-old native of Durham, N.C. has allowed 56 hits and 33 earned runs in 47 1/3 innings. He has never faced the Royals. For Kansas City, second-generation big leaguer Brian Bannister tries again to end a winless skid that's now rea |
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| Verlander hopes to slow down red-hot Indians |
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08/27/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Hard-throwing but inconsistent righty Justin Verlander tries for a third straight win tonight when the Detroit Tigers host the Cleveland Indians in the third and final game of a three-game series at Comerica Park. Verlander, who's won 17 and 18 games in the last two seasons, respectively, had upped his 2008 mark to a mediocre 8-9 on July 20 before losing four consecutive starts, including a 7-2 defeat against Toronto on Aug. 11 in which he lasted just 4 1/3 innings. The second overall draft p |
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| Detroit calls up Lambert to make debut |
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08/26/2008 |
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| Detroit, MI (MySportsbook) - The Detroit Tigers purchased the contract of pitcher Chris Lambert from Triple-A Toledo to make his major league debut Tuesday against the Cleveland Indians. In his start against the Tribe, he was roughed up in 2 2/3 innings pitched, allowing six runs -- two earned -- on five hits and a walk while striking out two as the Tigers lost, 10-4. Lambert, 25, was 12-8 with a 3.50 earned run average in 26 starts for Toldeo this season. He was acquired by Detroit as the player to be named |
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| Tribe is unbeLEEvable in win over Tigers |
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08/26/2008 |
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| Detroit, MI (MySportsbook) - Ben Francisco hit two home runs and Cliff Lee got his American League-leading 19th win, as the Cleveland Indians crushed the Detroit Tigers, 10-4, in the second of three games at Comerica Park. Lee (19-2) was sensational once again, allowing only two runs on six hits and a walk in 7 2/3 innings with four strikeouts. The lefty won for the eighth time in nine starts and for the fifth time in August, matching a season-high set in April. "You score runs like that in an inning and Clif |
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| Meche tries to extend unbeaten streak against Rangers |
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08/25/2008 |
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| nings. He's started 20 times in 22 outings in 2008, reaching a career-high 120 2/3 innings after going six against Detroit in his most recent outing on Aug. 18. On Sunday in Texas, Franklin Gutierrez drove in the game-winning run in the ninth as the Cleveland Indians completed a three-game sweep of the Rangers with a 4-3 win. Milton Bradley, Gerald Laird and Ramon Vazquez each drove in a run for the Rangers, who have dropped three straight and six of seven. Vicente Padilla gave up three runs on five hits with a |
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| Tigers' Galarraga tries to cool off scorching Indians |
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08/25/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Detroit Tigers surprise Armando Galarraga goes for a sixth straight victory and tries to stay perfect for his career against the Cleveland Indians tonight, when the two American League Central disappointments begin a three-game series at Comerica Park. The Tigers, who were chosen by many to breeze to a division title this season, are instead mired in mediocrity in third place, 10 1/2 games off the lead of the Chicago White Sox. Meanwhile, the Indians have fallen hard from last season's playof |
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| Gutierrez keeps Tribe in win column over Texas |
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08/24/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Franklin Gutierrez drove in the game-winning run in the ninth as the Cleveland Indians completed a three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers with a 4-3 win. After blowing a two-run edge in the eighth, Cleveland took the lead back in the ninth. With Eddie Guardado (3-3) starting the inning on the mound, Ryan Garko led off with a single and a Kelly Shoppach sacrifice bunt moved Andy Gonzalez, running for Garko, to second. Gutierrez then roped a single to center to score Gonzalez for a |
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| Indians vie for seventh straight win, sweep of Rangers |
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08/24/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Nicaraguan veteran Vicente Padilla tries to snap a four- start skid when the Texas Rangers and the Cleveland Indians close out a three- game weekend series tonight at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The 30-year-old Texas right-hander, who won two straight starts in late July to improve to 12-5 this season, has since gone 0-2 with a pair of no-decisions and seen his earned run average rise from 4.56 to 4.96. His July 25 defeat of Oakland earned him win No. 12 and doubled his total from an injur |
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| Tribe rally from big deficit to clip Rangers |
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08/24/2008 |
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| Arlington, TX (MySportsbook) - Jamey Carroll knocked in the go-ahead run in the eighth with a pinch-hit single as the Cleveland Indians edged the Texas Rangers 8-7, in the middle contest of a three-game series. Ryan Garko had a pair of hits and two RBI while Grady Sizemore had two hits and a run scored with three stolen bases for Cleveland, which has won six straight. Rafael Perez (3-3) picked up the win with a scoreless seventh. Michael Young hit a two-run homer and knocked in three, and Gerald Laird had a p |
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