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| Pena, Young capture Comeback Player of Year honors |
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10/02/2007 |
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| New York, NY (MySportsbook) - Major League Baseball announced on Tuesday that Carlos Pena of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Dmitri Young of the Washington Nationals are the recipients of the 2007 Comeback Player of the Year Award. Pena, who was a non-roster invitee to Rays' spring training, established franchise records in home runs (46), RBI (121), walks, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. His 46 homers placed him fourth in the majors and his 121 runs batted in placed sixth. A first-round draft pick of T |
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| Nationals 1B Dmitri Young awarded NL's comeback player of the year |
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10/02/2007 |
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| ome year, which included an assault charge, treatment for alcoholism, a divorce and hospitalization for diabetes. Young got a second chance in February when he agreed to a non-guaranteed, minor league contract with Washington. Carlos Pena of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays was the AL winner. The winners were selected by reporters for MLB.com.Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed withou |
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| 99 years and counting since last Cubs' World Series winner |
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10/01/2007 |
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| the Cincinnati Reds to a four-game sweep over the favored Oakland Athletics to win the World Series. His Seattle teams won as many as 116 games during the regular season, but never got to the World Series. After an unsuccessful run with his hometown Tampa Bay Devil Rays and some time in the TV booth, his task is getting the Cubs back to the Series for the first time since 1945. That's the year, legend has it, that the Cubs were cursed after a tavern owner and his goat were ejected from Wrigley Field during the Wo |
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| Tampa Bay's Pena earns AL weekly honors |
MLB Baseball |
10/01/2007 |
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| New York, NY (MySportsbook) - Tampa Bay Devil Rays first baseman Carlos Pena has been named the American League player of the week for the period ending September 30. Pena had a .438 average (7-for-16) with four home runs and five runs batted in over six games. He also had a 1.188 slugging percentage and a .630 on-base percentage. The 29-year-old Pena ended the season hitting .282 with 46 homers, 121 RBI and 99 runs scored. His 46 long balls were second to New York's Alex Rodriguez, who hit 54. This is the first |
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| Blue Jays, D-Rays go at it again up north |
MLB Baseball |
09/30/2007 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Toronto Blue Jays try to end their season on a high note this afternoon when they try and complete a three-game sweep of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Rogers Centre. On Saturday, Adam Lind hit a three-run homer as Toronto rallied late and then held on for a 5-3 win. John-Ford Griffin hit his second-career home run and his first since 2005 for the Blue Jays, who have won five of six. Jesse Litsch gave up just one run on four hits over six innings of work. Scott Downs (4-2), though, got the win |
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| Saturday's AL Capsules |
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09/30/2007 |
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| put an appropriate finish on a horrid season by giving up seven runs and 10 hits in three-plus innings.Blue Jays 5, Devil Rays 3 TORONTO (AP) - Adam Lind hit a three-run homer, John-Ford Griffin added a solo shot and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 5-3 on Saturday. The Blue Jays have won 10 of 15, while Tampa Bay has lost 13 of 17. Toronto broke a 1-all tie with a four-run eighth against reliever Dan Wheeler (0-5). Reed Johnson started the rally by reaching base on a throwing error, Matt S |
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| Marlins promote Beinfest to president; name Hill GM |
MLB Baseball |
09/29/2007 |
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| ago and will finish with a losing record for the second straight season. Hill becomes the third general manager in club history, He joined the club as an assistant GM in 2002 under Beinfest after working in the front offices of Colorado Rockies and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The Marlins also promoted Dan Jennings to assistant general manager. Jennings, Beinfest, Hill and assistant GM Jim Fleming all received contract extensions through at least the 2015 season. "Michael, Jim and Dan are each certainly capable and quali |
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| Escobar goes for win No. 18 in Oakland |
MLB Baseball |
09/29/2007 |
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| series with the Oakland Athletics at McAfee Coliseum. Escobar has been great this season for the AL West champion Angels, going 17-7 with a 3.46 earned run average. However, he has struggled lately and has not pitched since September 17 against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays when he allowed six runs and eight hits in four innings of his team's 10-7 win. He was shut down after that appearance because of an inflamed shoulder. Over his past six starts Escobar is 4-1, but is pitching to a 7.39 ERA in those outings. In his l |
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| Red Sox shoot for best record in AL against Twins |
MLB Baseball |
09/29/2007 |
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| innings for Minnesota. Boston will hand the ball tonight to veteran knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, who is winless in his last four starts. Wakefield, who was part of the 1995 division-winning team, lost his second straight start on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, as he surrendered four runs and seven hits in five innings to fall to 16-12 on the year, while raising his earned run average to 4.80. Wakefield has faced the Twins 23 times (20 starts) and is 12-4 against them with a pair of saves and a 4.01 ERA. |
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| Rays, Jays resume set north of the border |
MLB Baseball |
09/29/2007 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Toronto Blue Jays continue their season-ending three- game series with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays this afternoon at Rogers Centre. In the opener of this set on Friday, Adam Lind's two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth proved to be the difference, as Toronto held on for a 5-4 win. Matt Stairs also clubbed a homer for the Blue Jays, who have won four of their last five games, while Dustin McGowan (12-10) allowed four runs -- three earned -- on six hits, with a pair of walks and six strikeouts |
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