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| Blue Jays' president, CEO to step down |
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09/29/2008 |
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| Toronto, ON (MySportsbook) - Paul Godfrey, the president and chief executive of the Toronto Blue Jays and Rodgers Centre, will step down from his duties at the conclusion of the 2008 calendar year. "I have decided not to seek a new contract as president and CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays and Rogers Centre once my existing one ends on December 31, 2008," Godfrey said. "I indicated this possibility to the ownership of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball club earlier this year." Godfrey took over his positions on Septe |
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| Blue Jays pound O's to finish season |
MLB Baseball |
09/28/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - Vernon Wells went 4-for-4, homered twice and drove in five runs, and the Toronto Blue Jays pounded the Baltimore Orioles, 10-1, in the regular-season finale for both clubs. Lyle Overbay also homered for the Blue Jays (86-76), who finished with a 51-37 mark under Cito Gaston, the former Toronto manager who replaced John Gibbons. Gibbons was fired on June 20 after a 35-39 start by Toronto. "It was nice to finish with a win today and go ten games over .500," said Gaston, who signed |
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| Yankees, Red Sox play two to end regular season at Fenway |
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09/28/2008 |
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| winless in his last eight starts at Fenway, but is 20-17 lifetime against Boston with a 3.71 ERA in 56 starts. Opposing Mussina will be Japanese right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka, as he tries to win his eighth straight decision. Matsuzaka defeated the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday, as he scattered two hits over seven scoreless innings to run his record to 18-2, while lowering his earned run average to 2.80. Matsuzaka beat the Yankees back on April 13 and is 3-1 lifetime against them with a 6.30 ERA in five starts. G |
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| Jays, Orioles close season at Camden Yards |
MLB Baseball |
09/28/2008 |
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| rts Network) - Former first-round draft pick Jeremy Guthrie can reach .500 for the season and add to an already career-best win total today when the Baltimore Orioles close out a schedule-ending three-game series at Camden Yards against the visiting Toronto Blue Jays. Guthrie, the 22nd pick in the 2002 draft by the Cleveland Indians, made 16 appearances for the Indians between 2004 and 2006 before going to Baltimore and appearing in 32 games last season, winning seven times. He's started 29 games this season and |
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| O's snap 10-game skid in another shortened game with Toronto |
MLB Baseball |
09/28/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - Brian Bass allowed just three hits and a run in six innings on the mound, as the Baltimore Orioles snapped a 10-game skid with a 2-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in the second straight rain- shortened game at Camden Yards. Toronto came away with a 3-0 victory when the game was stopped in the top of the seventh in the series opener on Friday, but the Jays had no answers for Bass (4-4), who retired the last 13 hitters he faced and struck out four while walking none. "Bass pitche |
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| AL East-champion Rays continue set at Detroit |
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09/27/2008 |
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| two RBI, and scored twice for Tampa Bay, which swept a four-game series in Baltimore before coming to Detroit. Getting the call for the Rays tonight will be righty Matt Garza, who is 11-9 with a 3.66 ERA. Garza, though, hasn't won since beating the Toronto Blue Jays on August 27 and hasn't pitched since September 17. Garza is also searching for his first-ever win against the Tigers, against whom he is 0-3 with a 4.84 ERA in four starts. Detroit will counter with lefty Dontrelle Willis, who will cap an extremely |
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| Red Sox, Yankees to battle again at Fenway |
MLB Baseball |
09/27/2008 |
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| the game. Pauley struggled mightily, surrendering seven runs -- six earned -- on six hits in just 2 2/3 innings. So, Boston will turn to Matsuzaka this evening, as he tries to win his eighth straight decision. The Japanese right-hander defeated the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday, as he scattered two hits over seven scoreless innings to run his record to 18-2, while lowering his earned run average to 2.80. Matsuzaka beat the Yankees back on April 13 and is 3-1 lifetime against them with a 6.30 ERA in five starts. T |
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| Jays, Orioles resume set in Camden Yards |
MLB Baseball |
09/27/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Ex-Oriole John Parrish faces his old club for the third time tonight, when the Toronto Blue Jays head back to Camden Yards for the middle test of a three-game weekend set with slumping Baltimore. A 31-year-old southpaw, Parrish was a 25th-round draft pick of the Orioles in 1996 and began his career with them in 2000, making 153 appearances through the 2007 season. He closed that season with eight relief appearances for Seattle, then began 2008 with Toronto and has made five starts in 12 outin |
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| Blue Jays blank Orioles in shortened game |
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09/27/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (MySportsbook) - Scott Richmond got his first big league win and Curtis Thigpen hit his first major league home run, as the Toronto Blue Jays downed Baltimore, 3-0, in the rain-shortened opener of both clubs' final series of the season. Richmond (1-3) surrendered only four hits without issuing a walk and fanned three. Scott Rolen and Jose Bautista drove in a run apiece for Toronto, which had lost three of four coming into this three-game set at Camden Yards. "Richmond pitched himself a good game |
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| O's attempt to halt skid in opener with Blue Jays |
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09/26/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Baltimore Orioles try and put the brakes on a nine-game losing streak this evening, as they begin their final series of the season, a three-game set against the Toronto Blue Jays at Camden Yards. Baltimore is a brutal 5-26 since August 22 and enters this series after getting swept by the Tampa Bay Rays, culminating with an 11-6 setback in Wednesday's finale. Luke Scott doubled in three runs and Brian Roberts scored twice on a pair of hits in the loss, while Nick Markakis had three hits wi |
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