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| Hofstra names Anderson baseball coach |
College Baseball |
08/08/2008 |
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| Hempstead, NY (MySportsbook) - Hofstra University has named Patrick Anderson as its new head baseball coach. Anderson served as a Hofstra assistant coach from 1998 through 2001 and has spent the past eight seasons as a minor league hitting and catching instructor for the Kansas City Royals. Hofstra needed to replace Chris Dotolo, who resigned in June. |
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| Rockies hope for rebound in opener with Padres |
MLB Baseball |
08/08/2008 |
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| ch actually began the season with San Diego and made 12 appearances out of the bullpen with the Padres, allowing 22 hits and 14 earned runs over 19 2/3 innings of work. The Rockies are his sixth major league team since he initially broke in with the Kansas City Royals in 1997. Rusch's most prolific seasons came with the New York Mets, with whom he won 11 and 10 games in 2000 and 2002, respectively. Rusch is 3-1 with a 4.91 ERA in 33 innings with Colorado this season and is unbeaten in six overall appearances sinc |
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| Twins open series with Royals in KC |
MLB Baseball |
08/08/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Inconsistent over his last handful of outings, Kevin Slowey will try to get back on the winning track tonight, as he toes the rubber in the Minnesota Twins' opener of a three-game set with the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium. Though 2-2 over his last five games, Slowey has pitched to a 6.00 earned run average in that span, allowing four runs or more in four of those games. However, he also hurled his second shutout of the season recently, blanking the White Sox on July 28. The success o |
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| Ellsbury, Red Sox blast Royals |
MLB Baseball |
08/07/2008 |
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| Kansas City, MO (MySportsbook) - Jacoby Ellsbury went 3-for-4 with a three- run homer and scored twice as the Boston Red Sox routed the Kansas City Royals, 8-2, in the rubber match of a three-game set. Tim Wakefield (7-8) pitched six strong innings, holding the Royals to two runs -- one earned -- on four hits with six strikeouts and no walks to get the win. J.D. Drew went 2-for-4, drove in two and scored, and Jason Bay continued to play well for his new club, going 2-for-5 and scoring twice for Boston, which h |
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| Youkilis leaves game with injured hand |
MLB Baseball |
08/07/2008 |
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| Kansas City, MO (MySportsbook) - Boston Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis left in the first inning of Wednesday's game against the Kansas City Royals with a right hand injury after being hit by a pitch. The injury is listed as a right hand contusion, and X-rays were negative. The Red Sox went on to down the Royals in Youkilis' absence, 8-2. Royals pitcher Luke Hochevar hit Youkilis in the hand in the first inning. He remained in the game to run the bases, but Sean Casey took Youkilis' spot in the field in t |
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| Red Sox hope for series win in Kansas City |
MLB Baseball |
08/06/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Tim Wakefield hopes to receive the same kind of offensive support his Boston Red Sox teammates provided on Tuesday when the veteran knuckleballer takes the mound in tonight's finale of a three-game series with the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium. Wakefield has been one of the Red Sox' most consistent pitchers this season, but the 42-year-old's current 6-8 record hasn't reflected his solid pitching. He has been hurt by a lack of runs on a number of occasions, including his most recent tr |
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| Swisher lifts ChiSox in 14-inning comeback over Detroit |
MLB Baseball |
08/06/2008 |
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| with two outs in the eighth tied the game at six. Game Notes Robertson is winless over his last eight starts...Chicago manager Ozzie Guillen was handed a two-game suspension and was fined an undisclosed amount for his aggressive actions in Sunday's game against the Kansas City Royals. He began serving the suspension on Tuesday...The White Sox have won eight of the 13 meetings with the Tigers so far this season...Detroit's Justin Verlander (8-11) and Chicago's John Danks (8-4) are scheduled to start on Wednesday. |
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| Hillman, Guillen, Olivo, Greinke suspended for weekend incident |
MLB Baseball |
08/05/2008 |
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| New York, NY (MySportsbook) - Kansas City Royals pitcher Zack Greinke and catcher Miguel Olivo were each suspended five games by Major League Baseball for their roles in a series of incidents during Sunday's 14-3 win over the Chicago White Sox. Additionally, Royals manager Trey Hillman was suspended one game, while White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was handed a two-game sentence. All four were fined undisclosed amounts. Hillman will serve his suspension Tuesday, when Kansas City hosts Boston. Likewise, Guillen w |
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| White Sox lose their grip on AL Central |
MLB Baseball |
08/05/2008 |
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| ision, they now share that lead with the Minnesota Twins. Chicago lost three out of four last week to the Twins, who just received a shot in the arm with the return of Francisco Liriano. The White Sox followed that up by dropping two of three to the Kansas City Royals over the weekend, and in ugly fashion. Not only did the Sox surrender 38 hits in those latest two losses, they also appeared to suffer the worst of a bench-clearing brawl. In the fifth inning of Sunday's eventual 14-3 loss to Kansas City, White Sox |
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| Royals hope to stay hot against Boston |
MLB Baseball |
08/05/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Boston Red Sox won last season's World Series, but the Kansas City Royals are the ones playing like champions right now. The upstart Royals aim for an eighth victory in their last nine games when they continue a three-game series with the visiting Red Sox tonight at Kauffman Stadium. Kansas City extended its current winning run to three straight games with Monday's 4-3 triumph over Boston. Gil Meche worked six solid innings to record his fourth consecutive winning start, while Mark Teahen |
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