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| Maddux battles Schmidt in Game 3 at Pac Bell |
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10/05/2002 |
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| San Francisco, CA (MySportsbook) - The Atlanta Braves attempt to open a two- games-to-one advantage in their best-of-five National League Division Series against the San Francisco Giants this afternoon, when the two teams square off at Pacific Bell Park. Greg Maddux takes the ball today for the NL East champs. Maddux was originally slated to start Game 2, but a blister on the index finger of his pitching hand prompted Braves manager Bobby Cox to use Kevin Millwood and push Maddux back a few days. The veteran rig |
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| Braves' Hammond questionable for Game 2 |
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10/03/2002 |
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| Atlanta, GA (MySportsbook) - Atlanta Braves relief pitcher Chris Hammond, who left Game 1 of the National League Division Series with a neck sprain, is questionable for Thursday night's contest against the San Francisco Giants. The Giants won the opener of the best-of-five series 8-5. Hammond, 36, had a 0.95 ERA during the regular season for the Braves. He injured his neck in the sixth inning of Game 1 on Wednesday when he dove to field a grounder by Rich Aurilia. Hammond made the play and threw out Aurilia, but |
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| MLB Playoff Preview: San Francisco versus Atlanta |
MLB Baseball |
10/01/2002 |
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| whopping 19 games over the second-place Montreal Expos, the Braves garnered home-field advantage throughout the playoffs by posting their fourth 100-win season in six years. Atlanta's first-round opponent this time around will be the Barry Bonds-led San Francisco Giants, who earned the NL wild card spot by going 25-8 in their final 33 games and finishing with a 95-66 record. Bonds' struggles in the postseason are well documented and will be focused on in this five-game series. The All-Star leftfielder owns a paltry |
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| Diamondbacks begin title defense |
MLB Baseball |
10/01/2002 |
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| ig guy [Randy Johnson] and [Curt] Schilling pitching on desert soil. They're ready." Randy Johnson will be on the hill tonight for the National League West champs, who finished the regular season with a 98-64 record to outlast the wild card- winning San Francisco Giants by 2 1/2 games. Johnson (24-5, 2.32) last toed the hill on Thursday, when he held the Colorado Rockies to a pair of unearned runs on six hits over nine innings. The complete game was his third in five starts and eight overall this season. He walked |
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| Dodgers open series against San Diego |
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09/26/2002 |
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| 1) picked up the win by tossing a scoreless ninth. Starter Giovanni Carrara yielded two runs on four hits in five innings of work for the Dodgers. He struck out five and walked one in his first start of the year. San Diego suffered a 6-0 loss to the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday. Clay Condrey (1-2) suffered the defeat for the Padres, who have lost four straight and six of their last seven games. He surrendered five hits and five runs -- four earned -- over five innings. Hideo Nomo takes the mound tonight for th |
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| Morris strives for 17th victory |
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09/26/2002 |
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| he Brewers two times in 2002, going 1-1 with a 2.25 earned run average. Ben Diggins counters for the Brew Crew. Diggins was tagged with the loss in his last trip to the slate after surrendering three runs on eight hits over 6 1/3 innings against the San Francisco Giants. He walked three and fanned four, while yielding a pair of round-trippers. This will be the righthander's fifth career outing. He is still searching for his first career win and is yet to allow less than three runs in a start. The 24-year-old Diggin |
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| Schilling seeks redemption in St. Louis |
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09/26/2002 |
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| for the struggling Arizona Diamondbacks today in the finale of a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals in a battle between first-place clubs at Busch Stadium. Arizona manager Bob Brenly made the decision to start Schilling today once the San Francisco Giants won last night. Since the Giants are just three games behind the D'backs in the NL West standings, Brenly wanted to have his best pitcher on the mound. Schilling did some damage to his Cy Young hopes in his last start, when he was ripped for eight e |
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| Giants continue surge into playoffs |
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09/26/2002 |
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| San Francisco, CA (MySportsbook) - The San Francisco Giants will try to continue their surge into the playoffs when they play the finale of a two-game set against the San Diego Padres tonight at Pac Bell Park. On Tuesday, Benito Santiago finished 3-for-4 with four runs batted in and Barry Bonds hit his 45th homer of the season as the Giants pounded the Padres, 12-3. Reggie Sanders added a solo homer for the Giants, while David Bell had a two-run single. The Giants moved within three games of Arizona for first pl |
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| Big week for Giants starts with Padres |
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09/24/2002 |
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| (MySportsbook) - With six games remaining in the regular season, the San Francisco Giants find themselves holding a two-game advantage on their rival Los Angeles Dodgers in the race for the fourth and final playoff berth in the National League. As they embarked on a recent seven-game road trip, the Giants were just one game in front of the Dodgers. The first four games of the trip were at Chavez Ravine, where the Giants gained a split to maintain their slim margin. Up next was the Milwaukee Brewers and their Nat |
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| Giants hope to protect wild card lead |
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09/24/2002 |
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| San Francisco, CA (MySportsbook) - The San Francisco Giants will try to maintain their two-game lead in the NL wild card race when they play the first of a two-game series against the San Diego Padres tonight at Pac Bell Park. On Sunday, Jeff Kent and Benito Santiago hit solo homers in the ninth inning, as San Francisco kept the pressure on the Dodgers in the National League wild card race with a 3-1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. The Giants won for the fifth time in six contests and secured their first three-g |
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