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| Cardinals prepare for stretch run |
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08/01/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - With August already upon us, every game from here on out is vital for the playoff-hungry St. Louis Cardinals. The club is battered and bruised right now and sits tied with the Milwaukee Brewers at five games behind the Chicago Cubs for the top spot in the National League Central division. St. Louis and Milwaukee are also even for the NL wild card lead, but it could have been a lot different had the Cardinals not been recently swept in four games by the Brewers from July 21-24 at Busch Stadium |
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| High-flying Cubs come home to battle Bucs |
MLB Baseball |
08/01/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Despite struggling on the road this season, the Chicago Cubs had no problem with the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park to begin this week. Now, the National League's top home club returns to Chicago this afternoon to begin a nine-game homestand with the first of three straight meetings against the new-look Pittsburgh Pirates at Wrigley Field. Chicago headed to Milwaukee on Monday with a slim one-game lead over the Brewers for supremacy in the NL Central. A four-game sweep later and the Cubs ha |
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| Brewers hope to get back on track in Atlanta |
MLB Baseball |
08/01/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Milwaukee Brewers have cooled off tremendously since their eight-game winning streak and will bring their current woes to the road tonight, when they open a three-game series against the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. Milwaukee even found its way to the top of the National League Central standings, but has lost five straight and six of its last seven games to fall five games off the pace. St. Louis is also five games behind the Chicago Cubs in the division standings. The Brewers were jus |
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| Edmonds leads Cubs past Brewers, capping four-game sweep |
MLB Baseball |
08/01/2008 |
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| Milwaukee, WI (MySportsbook) - Jim Edmonds hit a grand slam and a solo home run as the Chicago Cubs completed the four-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers with an 11-4 win at Miller Park. Chicago held a slim one-game lead for first place in the NL Central against Milwaukee when the series started on Monday. Now, though, the Cubs are up five games on Milwaukee and also five games ahead of St. Louis for the top spot in the division. The Cubs dominated the series as they outscored the Brewers, 31-11, in the four |
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| Edmonds leads Cards past Brewers |
MLB Baseball |
07/31/2008 |
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| Milwaukee, WI (MySportsbook) - Jim Edmonds hit a grand slam and a solo home run as the Chicago Cubs completed the four-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers with an 11-4 win at Miller Park. Chicago held a slim one-game lead for first place in the NL Central against Milwaukee when the series started on Monday. Now, though, the Cubs are up five games on Milwaukee and also five games ahead of St. Louis for the top spot in the division. The Cubs dominated the series as they outscored the Brewers, 31-11, in the four |
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| Red Sox cut nose off to spite their face with Manny deal |
MLB Baseball |
07/31/2008 |
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| probably need another starter and will likely get one like Jarrod Washburn from Seattle through waivers sometime in August. Keep in mind Phil Hughes is on a rehab assignment, as is Carl Pavano (remember him). Both could be ready for a September run. MILWAUKEE BREWERS The Brewers picked up the biggest difference maker on the market from a pitching standpoint in big left-hander CC Sabathia back in early June. Sabathia didn't help any this week against Chicago, but he has made the Brewers a bona fide contender. The |
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| Cubs hope to get the brooms out in Milwaukee |
MLB Baseball |
07/31/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Rich Harden tries to put the finishing touches on a potential four-game sweep by the Chicago Cubs over the National League Central-rival Milwaukee Brewers when the recently-acquired pitcher takes the mound this afternoon at Miller Park. Chicago entered this crucial series holding a slim one-game edge on the surging Brewers for first place in the division, but that lead is now a more- comfortable four games after the Cubs took each of the first three games of this set. After withstanding the c |
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| Cubs extend lead over Brewers in NL Central |
MLB Baseball |
07/31/2008 |
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| Milwaukee, WI (MySportsbook) - Ryan Theriot went 3-for-3 with three runs batted in, and Ryan Dempster allowed just one run over seven dominant innings as the Chicago Cubs continued to pull away from the Milwaukee Brewers with a 7-2 win in the third of four games at Miller Park. Dempster (12-4) allowed just five hits and struck out nine while walking one for the Cubs, who have won four straight to open up a four-game lead over the Brewers in the NL Central. Chicago also holds a four-game lead over the St. Loui |
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| On the ropes, Cubs refusing to be counted out |
MLB Baseball |
07/30/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Admit it, Chicago Cubs fans. You all had to be feeling at least a wee bit nervous when the Milwaukee Brewers came out firing on all cylinders after the All-Star break and turned a National League Central race that was on its way to having a runaway winner into one serious competition. I can't say I can blame any Cubs backer for his or her recent paranoia, considering the franchise's wretched history of not being able to finish what it started. So when the resurgent Brewers cut a five-game def |
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| Cubs, Brewers resume Central showdown |
MLB Baseball |
07/30/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - So far, the Chicago Cubs have beaten the best the Milwaukee Brewers have to offer. After posting wins over Milwaukee's two co-aces, Chicago will aim to defeat one of the Brewers' top young guns tonight in the third test of a four-game series between the two clubs at Miller Park. Heading into this key National League Central series, the front-running Cubs held just a one-game edge over the Brewers and were staring at matchups with CC Sabathia and Ben Sheets. However, Chicago scored four runs o |
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