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| Wild card-leading Yanks welcome Tampa to town for three |
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08/31/2007 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Fresh off a needed sweep of their biggest rival, the New York Yankees now turn their attention to a surging Tampa Bay Devil Rays squad as the two American League East clubs play the first of three consecutive meetings tonight in the Bronx. New York closed within five games of Boston's lead atop the division after taking all three contests of a key series with the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. The Bronx Bombers finished the sweep with a 5-0 victory on Thursday, as Chien- Ming Wang teamed with a pair |
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| D-Rays secure rare road sweep; O's finish worst homestand ever |
MLB Baseball |
08/31/2007 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - B.J. Upton belted a three-run homer in the third, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays twice battled back from deficits to top the Baltimore Orioles, 8-6, and sweep a three-game series. Nick Markakis and Kevin Millar homered for the Orioles, who have lost nine straight. Baltimore finished its 10-game homestand 1-9, the worst homestand in franchise history, sliding past the Orioles' 2-8 stand in 1987. Josh Wilson homered and finished with three hits, and Akinori Iwamura also homered for the |
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| Devil Rays shoot for rare sweep in Baltimore |
MLB Baseball |
08/30/2007 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Tampa Bay Devil Rays try and complete their first road sweep of the season and their first-ever three-game sweep in Baltimore when they wrap up their series with the Orioles at Camden Yards. After losing nine in a row at Camden, Tampa Bay has now won its last two there, but is just 6-20 as the visitor in this series since the start of the 2005 campaign. Although the Devil Rays have never swept a three-game series in Baltimore, they did sweep a four-game set there from May 15-18, 1998. On Tue |
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| Rays outlast O's in 12 innings |
MLB Baseball |
08/30/2007 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - Dioner Navarro's RBI single in the 12th inning scored Joel Guzman and gave the Tampa Bay Devil Rays a come-from-behind 5-4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in the second game of a three-game set at Camden Yards. Navarro finished 2-for-5 with a pair of RBI, and Brendan Harris went 2-for-6 with two runs driven in. Carl Crawford and Delmon Young ended with a pair of hits as well. Grant Balfour (1-2) got the win for the Rays - who had trailed 4-1 entering the eighth - striking out fo |
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| Blue Jays aim for first sweep in Oakland in 14 years |
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08/29/2007 |
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| has posted a 4-4 mark with a 5.55 ERA. He is 2-0 with a 2.75 ERA over his last three appearances versus Oakland. Oakland will counter with left-hander Lenny DiNardo, who is coming off an atrocious outing in his last start. DiNardo was ripped by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for six runs and eight hits in just two innings on Friday, as he fell to 8-7 and had his ERA raised to 3.57. DiNardo lost his last start to the Jays and is 0-2 lifetime against them with a 10.38 ERA in nine games, two of which have been starts. Oakl |
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| Hapless O's hope for a W against D-Rays |
MLB Baseball |
08/29/2007 |
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| s are enduring one of their worst stretches of the season and poor pitching has been the main culprit for that lack of success. Tonight the badly slumping club tries to rebound from a late- inning collapse when it continues a three-game set with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Camden Yards. The Baltimore bullpen surrendered 11 runs in the top of the eighth inning as the Devil Rays rallied for a 15-8 victory in Tuesday's series opener. The loss was the Orioles' seventh in a row, a streak that began with an embarrassing |
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| Moose loose: Yankees' Mussina removed from rotation |
MLB Baseball |
08/29/2007 |
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| r Mike Mussina has been pulled from the starting rotation and will miss his next scheduled start. The Yankees will call upon 2006 first-round draft pick Ian Kennedy, currently at Triple-A Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, to make the start Saturday against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Kennedy is 1-1 with a 2.08 ERA in six starts for the Yanks' farm club. Mussina is only 8-10 this season with a 5.53 ERA in 23 starts. The crafty veteran was torched for nine hits and six runs in three innings in a 16-0 loss Monday in Detroit. He ha |
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| Yankees gain ground in AL East, Angels open up lead on Mariners in West |
MLB Baseball |
08/29/2007 |
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| solo shot for the Indians, who are 9-3 since Aug. 15 - the day Cabrera replaced Josh Barfield in the starting lineup. Westbrook (5-7) allowed three runs - all in the fifth - and 10 hits in 6 2-3 innings.Devil Rays 15, Orioles 8 At Baltimore, The Tampa Bay Devil Rays scored 11 eighth-inning runs during another embarrassing performance by Baltimore's bullpen, and the Orioles wasted six home runs in their seventh straight loss. The Devil Rays trailed 6-3 before sending 15 batters to the plate in the eighth. Nine |
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| From bad to worse in Baltimore |
MLB Baseball |
08/28/2007 |
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| ate, going just 1-for-34 over his last 10 games. The catcher's slump has brought his average to a dismal .234 on the season and could set him back in an attempt to secure a spot on the Orioles roster next season. ON DECK The Orioles will welcome the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to town for a three-game set from Camden Yards. Daniel Cabrera (9-13, 5.10) will face off against Jason Hammel (1-4, 7.43) in Tuesday night's opener. Wednesday night's contest will be a showdown between righthanders Steve Trachsel (6-8, 4.61) and Ja |
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| Jays go for another win over struggling A's |
MLB Baseball |
08/28/2007 |
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| slide comes on the heels of a five-game winning streak. Hoping to get the A's back in the win column tonight will be right-hander Chad Gaudin, who has won two of his last three starts. Gaudin most recently earned the victory on Thursday against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, as he allowed a run and five hits in seven innings to run his record to 10-9, while lowering his earned run average to 4.12. Gaudin has not recorded a decision in eight games (one start) against the Jays, but has pitched to a 2.08 ERA in those cont |
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