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| Blue Jays RHP Litsch leaves game |
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04/14/2009 |
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| Minneapolis, MN (MySportsbook) - Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Jesse Litsch left Monday's game against the Minnesota Twins due to tightness in his right forearm. Litsch was charged with seven hits and four runs over three-plus innings and left after Brian Buscher smacked an RBI triple. Litsch, who came into the game a perfect 3-0 lifetime against the Twins with a 2.08 ERA in four starts, also had three strikeouts. The Blue Jays won the game, 8-6, but Litsch didn't get a decision. |
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| Blue Jays try to beat Twins for 10th straight time |
MLB Baseball |
04/13/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Toronto Blue Jays hope to continue their recent mastery of the Minnesota Twins this evening when the two begin a four-game set at the Metrodome. Toronto won all six of its games with the Twins last season and has won nine in a row against them, including victories in five of its last seven visits to Minneapolis. Minnesota has not beaten the Blue Jays since an 8-5 home victory on June 28, 2007. The Blue Jays, though, enter tonight's opener on the heels of becoming the first team to lose |
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| Tigers aim for fourth straight win in opener with White Sox |
MLB Baseball |
04/13/2009 |
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| alking two. Floyd, who led the White Sox with 17 wins last season, is a perfect 4-0 in his career against the Tigers with a 3.23 ERA in nine starts. Chicago comes into today's opener after winning the last two games of its three-game affair with the Minnesota Twins. Chicago pulled out the series win on Sunday at U.S. Cellular Field, as Mark Buehrle allowed just two hits, one a solo home run, in 6 1/3 innings, and Jim Thome belted a two-run homer, helping the White Sox to a 6-1 victory. Buehrle (1-0) struck out |
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| National League Game Capsules |
MLB Baseball |
04/13/2009 |
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| , retiring 24 straight batters at one point, to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-0 win over the Astros and complete a three-game sweep of Houston at Busch Stadium. Lohse (2-0), a former two-time double-digit winner in the American League with the Minnesota Twins, fanned four batters to improve his ERA to 1.13 on the season. Lohse was 3-0 in four starts against the Astros last season, allowing 21 hits and seven runs in 26 innings. Khalil Greene went 3- for-4 with an RBI and a run scored for the Cardinals. Ry |
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| Lohse tosses shutout as Cards top Astros |
MLB Baseball |
04/12/2009 |
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| , retiring 24 straight batters at one point, to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-0 win over the Astros and complete a three-game sweep of Houston at Busch Stadium. Lohse (2-0), a former two-time double-digit winner in the American League with the Minnesota Twins, fanned four batters to improve his ERA to 1.13 on the season. Lohse was 3-0 in four starts against the Astros last season, allowing 21 hits and seven runs in 26 innings. "Kyle has really worked hard. He's a guy who has the talent and the perseveran |
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| White Sox, Twins seek upper hand in series finale |
MLB Baseball |
04/12/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) -- The Chicago White Sox will wrap up a season-opening homestand when the defending American League Central champions play the rubber match of a three-game set with the division rival Minnesota Twins today at U.S. Cellular Field. The White Sox dropped three of the first four tests of this residency before getting a big lift from Bartolo Colon on Saturday. The veteran pitcher tossed six shutout innings to help halt his team's three-game losing streak as Chicago cruised to an 8-0 victory over t |
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| Cards hope to bust out the brooms on Astros |
MLB Baseball |
04/12/2009 |
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| the surprise success stories of 2008, tries again to continue the momentum into 2009 when the St. Louis Cardinals go for a three-game sweep of the Houston Astros at Busch Stadium. A former two-time double-digit winner in the American League with the Minnesota Twins, the 30-year-old native of Chico, California slid to consecutive sub-.500 seasons from 2004 through 2007 before signing a one-year deal with the Cardinals worth $4.25 million in 2008. Suddenly, he blossomed under the full-time stewardship of manager |
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| Colon, ChiSox shut down Twins |
MLB Baseball |
04/11/2009 |
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| Chicago, IL (MySportsbook) - Bartolo Colon threw six scoreless innings to help the Chicago White Sox take an 8-0 decision over the Minnesota Twins in the second of a three-game set at U.S. Cellular Field. Colon (1-0) gave up just three hits and two walks with two strikeouts to get the win for the White Sox, who snapped a three-game skid. Corky Miller went 2- for-4 with two RBI and a run scored while Alexei Ramirez had two hits and two RBI in the win. "He moved the ball well and went up and down with his spe |
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| White Sox, Twins continue key early-season set |
MLB Baseball |
04/11/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) -- After exacting a measure of revenge with a lopsided victory of the Chicago White Sox on Friday, the Minnesota Twins will be aiming to take down their American League Central rivals for a second straight time when the two teams square off again this afternoon at U.S. Cellular Field. In the first meeting between the clubs since Chicago edged the Twins in a one- game playoff to decide the AL Central champion last September, Minnesota made a statement with the bats in Friday's opener of this t |
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| Marlins attempt to continue best start in team history against Mets |
MLB Baseball |
04/11/2009 |
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| s. New York, meanwhile, will pin its hopes on Livan Hernandez, who will be making his Mets debut. Hernandez beat out veteran Freddy Garcia for the final spot in the rotation this spring following a 2008 season that saw him go 13-11 combined with the Minnesota Twins and Colorado Rockies. The 34-year-old right-hander, who will be pitching for his seventh big league team, is no stranger to fans of the Florida Marlins, with whom he spent the first three-plus years of his career, while winning a World Series MVP fo |
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