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| Zito, Gonzalez share AL Player of the Week |
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05/05/2003 |
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| New York, NY (MySportsbook) - Oakland Athletics pitcher Barry Zito and Texas Rangers outfielder Juan Gonzalez were named American League Co-Players of the Week for the period ending May 4th. Zito, last year's AL Cy Young Award winner, finished the week 2-0 with a miniscule 0.60 ERA, scattering just eight hits over 15 innings as the A's won four of their six road games. Most impressive was his performance against Roger Clemens and the New York Yankees on Sunday, during which the left-hander pitched eight s |
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| Seattle Mariners Team Report - May 5 |
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05/05/2003 |
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| ist run in 26 1/3 innings, but still picked up the victory. He gave up just one run on four hits and struck out three. He has now won four of his last five starts. Meche (4-1) has not lost since his first start of the season on April 5th against the Texas Rangers. Ichiro Suzuki and Randy Winn also homered for the Mariners, who captured their first road-series sweep of the season. Seattle has now won three straight and 16 of its last 21 games. The Mariners outscored the White Sox by a 24-5 margin in the serie |
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| Cleveland Indians Team Report - May 5 |
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05/05/2003 |
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| (MySportsbook) - C.C. Sabathia pitched eight solid innings for his first win of the season, as the Cleveland Indians downed the Texas Rangers, 3-1, at Jacobs Field on Sunday. Ellis Burks went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored for the Indians, who took two of three from Texas over the weekend. Sabathia (1-2) allowed one run on five hits while striking out five and walking three in his eight innings of work. He improved to 4-0 lifetime against the Rangers. Danys Baez pitched a scoreless ninth for his fif |
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| Texas Rangers Team Report - March 5 |
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05/05/2003 |
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| (MySportsbook) - C.C. Sabathia pitched eight solid innings for the Cleveland Indians on Sunday as they downed the Texas Rangers, 3-1, at Jacobs Field. John Thomson went the distance in a losing effort for Rangers, who have dropped three of four. Thomson (2-3) surrendered three runs on five hits over eight innings. He struck out four and walked two. Thomson pitched his seventh career complete game, throwing 107 pitches in the loss, 71 of which were strikes. Rafael Palmeiro, who is two homers shy of the car |
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| Seattle Mariners Team Report - May 4 |
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05/04/2003 |
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| 7 2/3 innings of shutout baseball, scattering six hits to record the victory at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday. The young righthander has won three of his last four outings and his lone loss came in his first start of the season on April 5th against the Texas Rangers. In that contest, Meche allowed six runs on nine hits in five innings of work. Meche is 2-1 against the White Sox in three career starts, posting an ERA of 4.86. Last night, Mike Cameron went 2-for-4 with a home run and six RBI and Freddy Garcia pit |
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| Van Poppel activated from DL |
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05/03/2003 |
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| Cleveland, OH (MySportsbook) - Texas Rangers pitcher Todd Van Poppel was activated from the 15-day disabled list prior to Saturdays's 6-5 win versus the Cleveland Indians. Van Poppel, who had been on the DL since the start of the 2003 campaign with a strained right groin, was making his first start since September 24, 2000 when he was a member of the Chicago Cubs. The righthander lasted four innings and allowed five runs -- three earned -- on five hits, while walking two and striking out a pair of batters |
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| Awesome and Awful April performances |
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05/02/2003 |
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| gories and in outfield assists. He has tremendous speed and is aggressive on the bases. He also hit .353 for the month and was an incredible .500 with runners in scoring position. One downfall for the rookie was his 28 strikeouts. HANK BLALOCK - The Texas Rangers rookie third basemanL hit safely in 16 of his 20 starts for the month. His .388 average for the month was second-best in the AL and his .635 slugging percentage was sixth-best in the league. The 22-year- old lefthanded hitter had the top average ver |
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| Toronto Blue Jays Team Report - May 1 |
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05/01/2003 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Toronto Blue Jays need a win tonight over the Texas Rangers to avoid being swept in front of their home crowd. Yesterday, Toronto yielded 18 hits and committed two errors in an 11-3 setback against Texas. Orlando Hudson had three hits for the Blue Jays in the loss. Tanyon Sturtze (3-2) suffered the loss, surrendering eight runs -- six earned -- on 11 hits in just 3 1/3 innings. He fanned three and walked one, but did nothing to improve upon Toronto's recent lackluster pitching. In the |
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| New York Yankees Team Report - May 1 |
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05/01/2003 |
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| les. He has never won his first six starts to open a season. The 34-year-old righthander, who is pitching to a 1.70 ERA, allowed one run on five hits over eight innings, while striking out nine and walking one in his last start on Friday against the Texas Rangers. With the win, he became the first Yankees starter to win his first five outings since current pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre in 1969. Mussina, who has allowed only one homer over 37 innings this season, is 13-5 with a 3.71 ERA and two complete game |
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| San Diego Padres Team Report - May 1 |
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05/01/2003 |
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| ball for the Padres today will be righthander Jake Peavy, who is 4-1 with a 3.99 ERA in five starts this season. In his last outing, Peavy picked up the win, allowing just two runs and three hits in six and one-third innings of a 7-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday. He also struck out nine and walked three. Peavy has never faced the Pirates in his brief career. San Diego claimed infielder-outfielder Jermaine Clark off waivers yesterday from the Texas Rangers and optioned him to Triple-A Portland. |
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