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| Cubs aim to continue Giants' home woes |
MLB Baseball |
07/01/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Chicago Cubs will try to string together back-to-back road wins for the first time in more than two weeks tonight, when they resume a four-game series against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park. The Cubs had lost four straight overall and six in a row as the guest before handing the Giants a 9-2 setback in Monday's series opener. Mark DeRosa was a huge lift for the NL Central-leading Cubs last night, going 3-for-4 with a grand slam and a two-run homer. Matt Murton had two doubles and |
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| Sanchez captures NL weekly honor |
MLB Baseball |
06/30/2008 |
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| New York, NY (MySportsbook) - San Francisco Giants pitcher Jonathan Sanchez was named National League Player of the Week for the period ending June 29. The 25-year-old southpaw went 2-0 last week with a 1.23 ERA. Sanchez only allowed two earned runs and nine hits in 14.2 innings against Cleveland and Oakland. Sanchez, who won this award for the first time in his career, is 8-4 this season with a 3.79 ERA and 102 strikeouts in 17 starts. Sanchez's teammate Tim Lincecum also received consideration for this award a |
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| Cubs bring struggles into San Francisco |
MLB Baseball |
06/30/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Ted Lilly will try to pitch the recently-struggling Chicago Cubs back into the win column when he takes the ball tonight in the opener of a four-game series against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park. The Cubs have lost four in a row and five of their last six games to watch their lead in the National League Central shrink to 2 1/2 games over the St. Louis Cardinals. They were just swept in three games over the weekend by the cross-city rival Chicago White Sox to open a 10-game road trip. |
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| A's have chance to close gap on West-leading Angels |
MLB Baseball |
06/30/2008 |
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| s of Anaheim this evening, when both division rivals square off in the first of three straight games at Angel Stadium. Oakland, which is 4 1/2 games back of Anaheim in the division standings, lost the last two tests of a three-game series versus the San Francisco Giants over the weekend. In Sunday's horrific 11-1 loss in the series finale at McAfee Coliseum, Jack Cust hit his 13th homer of the season to highlight the A's offense. Joe Blanton took the loss and was charged with eight hits and seven runs in only four |
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| Lincecum, Duchscherer square off in Oakland |
MLB Baseball |
06/28/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Two of the top pitchers in baseball will square off tonight when the Oakland Athletics host the San Francisco Giants in the second contest of the three-game Bay Area Series from McAfee Coliseum. The A's will send reliever turned starter Justin Duchscherer to the hill tonight, as he will try to continue his amazing season. Duchscherer is currently 8-4 on the year and is boasting a ridiculous ERA of 1.99. The right-hander has won four consecutive contests, including a 7-1 decision over Florida thi |
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| Red-hot Royals target seventh straight win against Cards |
MLB Baseball |
06/28/2008 |
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| king in both Cardinal runs, but St. Louis dropped its third in a row. Kansas City will pin its hopes tonight on righty Kyle Davies, who is 3-0 with a 3.12 ERA, but is coming off an atrocious outing in his last trip to the hill. On Sunday against the San Francisco Giants Davies was hammered for five runs and six hits in just 1 1/3 frames. Davies defeated the Cards two starts ago, holding them to a run and five hits in seven innings in his only other appearance against them. St. Louis will counter with 24-year-old ri |
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| A's aim to resume dominance of Giants |
MLB Baseball |
06/27/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Bay Bridge Series has been a one-sided affair as of late. The San Francisco Giants hope to reverse that trend when they take on the Oakland Athletics in the opener of a three-game set from McAfee Coliseum. Oakland has won the last six meetings with San Francisco and nine of the 10 most recent clashes between the area rivals. That includes a three-game sweep of the Giants at AT&T Park earlier this month, with the Athletics outscoring San Francisco by a 14-4 margin during the series. The A |
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| Harden's career-high 11 strikeouts stymies Phillies |
MLB Baseball |
06/26/2008 |
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| s outstanding performance. Alan Embree kept the Phillies off the board in the ninth despite allowing a two-out triple by Pat Burrell. Game Notes On Friday, the Phillies head to Texas for three straight games with the Rangers, while Oakland hosts the San Francisco Giants in a Bay Area three-game series...Philadelphia's Geoff Jenkins went 0-for-3 at the plate, extending his hitless streak to 27 at-bats...Sweeney was diagnosed with a sprained left ankle and will be evaluated Friday...Harden's eight-inning start is his |
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| Lohse vies for another win as Cards visit Tigers |
MLB Baseball |
06/25/2008 |
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| etroit will counter with a surprising righty of its own in 26-year-old Armando Galarraga, who is 7-2 with a 3.03 ERA. Galarraga won his third straight start on June 18, when he allowed just two unearned runs and seven hits in six innings against the San Francisco Giants. He has not given up an earned run in either of his last two starts. Galarraga has never faced the Cardinals. In the opener of this set on Tuesday, Brendan Ryan went 3-for-4 with a two-run double and a run scored, helping St. Louis to an 8-4 win. Ya |
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| Giants send inept hurler Zito to hill at Cleveland |
MLB Baseball |
06/25/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Barry Zito tries to snap a two-start losing streak this evening when the San Francisco Giants play the middle test of their three-game series against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field. Zito, of course, has been atrocious since joining the Giants prior to last season. After going just 11-13 a year ago, Zito has been even worse this season, posting a 2-11 mark to go along with a 6.32 earned run average. The former AL Cy Young Award winner was tagged with the loss on Wednesday against Detr |
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