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| Yankees' Rivera likely to return Tuesday |
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04/28/2003 |
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| Tampa, FL (MySportsbook) - New York Yankees relief ace Mariano Rivera will likely rejoin the club on Tuesday after throwing an inning in extended spring training on Saturday. Rivera has been sidelined all season because of a strained groin he sustained in the final week of spring training in March. He has been working out in Tampa since. "I'm ready," said Rivera. "I feel real good today. I'm 100 percent." Rivera worked a perfect inning with two strikeouts on Saturday. He threw just nine pitches in the game, |
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| Detroit Tigers Team Report - April 26 |
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04/28/2003 |
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| ixth time in 2003 that the Tigers have been shutout. Detroit has scored fewer runs (43) than any team in the majors this season and is batting a putrid .175 as a unit. In fact, the Tigers have scored less runs than the amount of home runs hit by the New York Yankees (45) this season. Detroit, which has dropped 10 of its last 11 games, will send 26-year-old righthander Gary Knotts to the mound. He will be making his fourth start of the season. His last start was a 9-2 loss to the Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Ap |
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| New York Yankees Team Report - April 26 |
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04/28/2003 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The New York Yankees look to add another victory to their major-league best record tonight when they square off against the Texas Rangers in the second game of a three-game set at the Ballpark in Arlington. Lefthander David Wells will head to the hill for the Yankees, who are already going for win number 20 of this young 2003 season. Wells was phenomenal in his last outing, allowing one run on seven hits in a complete game victory over the Minnesota Twins last Monday. Last night, Mike Mussin |
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| Angels salvage finale |
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04/25/2003 |
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| (MySportsbook) - After getting pounded on consecutive nights by the New York Yankees, the Angels did something on Thursday that no other team in the league had been able to do this season. Beat a Yankee starting pitcher. Bengie Molina belted a three-run homer and Tim Salmon added a solo shot, leading Anaheim to a 6-2 victory over the Yankees to salvage the finale of their three-game set at Edison Field. Troy Glaus drove in two runs and Ramon Ortiz earned the win for the Angels, who snapped a three-game slide |
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| Kansas City Royals Team Report - April 25th |
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04/25/2003 |
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| ictory. Mike MacDougal earned his MLB-leading ninth save of the season after allowing one hit in a scoreless ninth. The Royals became just the ninth team in Major League Baseball since 1901 to begin a season 10-0 at home and the first since the 1987 New York Yankees. The Royals also matched their all-time mark of 16-8 in the month of April. It is the first time since 1989 that Kansas City has had a winning record in baseball's opening month. Kansas City hopes to extend its winning streak to six games on Friday |
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| Detroit Tigers Team Report - April 25 |
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04/25/2003 |
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| shutout, and the contest was played in a swift 2:06. Detroit has scored fewer runs (43) than any team in the Majors this season and is batting a putrid .177 as a unit. In fact, The Tigers have scored less runs than the amount of home runs hit by the New York Yankees (44) this season. Baseball's worst team is set to open a three-game set against the AL West's top club, the Seattle Mariners, at Safeco Field. Mike Maroth takes the ball tonight for the Tigers and will try to avoid becoming the first pitcher in the |
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| Texas Rangers Team Report - April 25 |
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04/25/2003 |
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| could be headed for the disabled list. Gonzalez and Palmeiro are just two of five Rangers with at least 11 RBI this season. Texas hopes that the momentum from last night's convincing victory will carry into tonight's series opener with the powerful New York Yankees. Colby Lewis will take the hill tonight for the Rangers and will be looking to build upon his finest outing of the season. The 23-year-old righthander, who is 3-0 with a 4.43 ERA, surrendered just one run and four hits over six innings in a 2-1 win |
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| Giambi scratched from lineup |
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04/24/2003 |
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| Anaheim, CA (MySportsbook) - New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi was scratched from Thursday's lineup against the Anaheim Angels due to a bruised middle finger on his left hand. Giambi suffered the injury during the seventh inning of Wednesday's 9-2 rout of the defending champion Angels. Giambi was drilled by a Scott Schoeneweis pitch. He has been hit four times this year after being hit 15 times in 2002. The lefty slugger is batting .200 with four home runs and 13 RBI this season for the high-flying |
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| Pettitte and powerful Yankees try for sweep of Angels |
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04/24/2003 |
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| Anaheim, CA (MySportsbook) - Andy Pettitte will attempt to improve the New York Yankees starters' record to 17-0 on the season tonight, when he faces the defending World Champion Anaheim Angels in the finale of their three-game set at Edison Field. A win tonight would give New York its first three-game sweep in Anaheim since May 4-6, 1990. The Yankees' starters have recorded wins in 20 straight regular-season decisions dating back to last season, breaking the previous AL record of 18 set by the 1906 Chicago |
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| Oakland's Dye leaves game with injury |
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04/24/2003 |
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| Oakland, CA (MySportsbook) - Oakland Athletics outfielder Jermaine Dye left Thursday's game versus the Detroit Tigers with discomfort in his right knee. Dye was fielding a double by the Tigers' Dean Palmer in the fifth inning when he slipped and fell. After trainer Larry Davis was called onto the field, Dye walked off under his own power. Dye has had lower body trouble in the past. During the 2001 playoffs, he broke his left fibia versus the New York Yankees. |
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