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| Notes from Thursday's games |
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09/20/2007 |
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| hrowing drills will be pushed back a few days. ---NATIONAL LEAGUEPirates-Padres PITTSBURGH: CF Nyjer Morgan tripled leading off both Wednesday night and Thursday. The last player to lead off consecutive games with triples was Elijah Dukes of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on May 20-22. ... Julie Wilson, wife of SS Jack Wilson, gave birth to a girl, Jersi, on Thursday morning. She is the couple's third child. Jack Wilson hasn't played since hurting his right hamstring on Tuesday night. SAN DIEGO: The Padres won thei |
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| Angels edge D-Rays; close in on AL West title |
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09/19/2007 |
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| Anaheim, CA (MySportsbook) - Ervin Santana pitched 6 1/3 innings to help the LA Angels of Anaheim to a 2-1 win and a three-game sweep of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Angel Stadium. Santana (7-13) gave up just one run on six hits with two walks and 10 strikeouts for the Angels, who reduced their magic number to three to clinch the AL West. "He threw the ball well today," said Angels catcher Jeff Mathis about Santana. "He' gaining a lot of confidence and keeping the ball down. He was throwing that slider good today |
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| Dodgers, Padres, Mariners could play in China |
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09/19/2007 |
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| he biggest issue is the travel there and back, with all the traveling we already do.'' Major League Baseball has twice opened the regular season in Tokyo, with the New York Mets meeting the Chicago Cubs in 2000 and the New York Yankees playing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2004. The Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics may open next season at the Tokyo Dome. Hendrickson was with the Devil Rays on the 2004 Tokyo trip. ``Japan was exciting to go over there for the five days,'' he said. ``It's fun to go over to a |
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| Halos shoot for sweep of D-Rays in Cali |
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09/19/2007 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Ervin Santana hopes to bring the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim one step closer to their third AL West title in four seasons this afternoon when they try and complete a three-game sweep of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Angel Stadium. In the second game of this set on Tuesday, John Lackey pitched eight-plus solid innings to lead LA to a 2-1 win. Lackey (17-9) gave up just one run on five hits and two walks with 10 strikeouts for the Angels, who have won three of their last four and reduced their mag |
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| While other races tighten, Indians and Angels move closer to division titles |
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09/19/2007 |
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| urned the screws. You can tell that they feel they are close and they want it.'' So do the Angels, inching closer to their third AL West title in four years. John Lackey took a four-hit shutout into the ninth inning and host Los Angeles beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2-1 to reduce its magic number to four. The Angels remained 8 1/2 games ahead of second-place Seattle with 11 to play. After wrapping up this three-game set Wednesday afternoon, they host the Mariners in a four-game weekend series. ``You'd like |
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| Lackey shines as Angels edge Devil Rays |
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09/19/2007 |
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| Anaheim, CA (MySportsbook) - John Lackey pitched eight-plus solid innings as the LA Angels of Anaheim downed the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 2-1, in the second of a three-game set at Angel Stadium. Lackey (17-9) gave up just one run on five hits and two walks with 10 strikeouts for the Angels, who have won three of their last four and reduced their magic number to four to clinch the AL West. "You like to try and get it done as quick as you can," said Lackey about the pennant chase. "We're still trying to win games bec |
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| Closing in on AL West title, Angels resume series with Rays |
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09/18/2007 |
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| (MySportsbook) - John Lackey goes for win No. 17 this evening when the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim continue their three-game series with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Angel Stadium. Lackey, though, enters tonight's tilt on a sour note after falling to the Baltimore Orioles in his last start. Lackey surrendered three runs and nine hits in seven innings of that one, as he fell to 16-9 on the season to go along with a 3.21 earned run average. Lackey has dominated the Devil Rays over the course of his career, going |
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| Figgins, Angels beat Rays to shrink magic number |
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09/18/2007 |
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| Anaheim, CA (MySportsbook) - Chone Figgins hit the go-ahead RBI triple in the fifth inning and had three of Los Angeles' 18 hits, as the Angels inched closer to the AL West title with a 10-7 win over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Figgins drove in two runs, and Casey Kotchman had three hits, two RBI and scored twice, as the Angels reduced their magic number to five for clinching the AL West title for a third time in four years. "Our team is not a home run hitting team," Figgins said. "We've got guys that can run. We |
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| Carmona, Kazmir share AL weekly honors |
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09/17/2007 |
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| New York, NY (MySportsbook) - Two 23-year-old starting pitchers shared the AL weekly honors, as Fausto Carmona of the Cleveland Indians and Scott Kazmir of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays have been named co-players of the week for the period ending September 16th. In two road starts last week, Kazmir went 2-0 with 13 scoreless innings and struck out 21. On September 10, he pitched seven shutout innings en route to the win against the Red Sox, allowing five hits and fanning 10. The 2006 AL All-Star tossed six scoreless |
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| Angels try to move closer to AL West crown in opener with Rays |
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09/17/2007 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The AL West-leading LA Angels of Anaheim have been inconsistent as of late and will try to regroup against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the first of three straight games tonight from Angel Stadium. The Angels have a comfortable 8 1/2-game lead over the Seattle Mariners in the division but have dropped three of four and five of the last eight games. In Sunday's 9-7 loss to the Chicago White Sox in the finale of a three-game set at U.S. Cellular Field, Juan Rivera hit a two-run homer and Vladimir G |
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