On Baseball: The Rise and Fall of the Dodgers and the Cardinals
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The Cardinals are not in danger of failing to win the division title, but their season isnÂt turning out the way they expected.
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One reason pennant races have heated up in both leagues is because the supposed spoilers are the ones getting spoiled. Consider the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, who once were third in the American League East and flirting with .
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Heroics and heartbreaks, diving catches and basepath blunders, hot bats and bizarre slumps, rainy days and endless nights. Already an instant classic, a short story transformed into a great American League
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ST. LOUIS - For the first time in a long time, the St. Louis Cardinals are in a must-win predicament. The Cardinals won 105 games, one off the 52-year-old franchise record.
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The Dodgers have spent many recent Octobers watching postseason baseball on television. Steve Finley&#39;s grand slam capped a seven-run rally in the bottom of
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Los Angeles officially now has two major league baseball teams. On Monday, the Anaheim Angels announced they have changed their name to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. This change is effective immediately.
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well, sort of very own â-t. Louis Cardinals are in the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. (How did that happen?). Having been a Cardinals
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In most sports, there are athletes built for the long haul, and those who dazzle in quick, mercurial bursts. Track and field has distance specialists and sprinters. Baseball has starting pitchers, setup men, and closers. Based on anecdotal evidence collected from 40-odd years immersed in sports literature, I suspect sportswriters fall into roughly the same categories. Like the starting pitcher who is awkwardly relegated to the bullpen, some writers aren't a great fit for every project. Lars Anderson, author of "Carlisle vs. Army," is a case in point.
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The winter meetings used to be the focal point of baseballâs offseason, the time when many teams made their most-important deals and signings.
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The Dodgers seldom win with the long ball. They're a good hitting team, with an NL-leading .275 batting average heading into Tuesday night's game against Pittsburgh, but home runs are for teams such as the Reds, Phillies and Braves. Not the Dodgers.
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LOS ANGELES -- Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals sure looked like the best team in baseball.
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(Sports Network) - The Dodgers hope to avoid being swept by the St. Louis Cardinals, as they head into Game 3 of their National League Division Series today.
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They were outpitched, outhit, outsmarted and outclassed, and soon they were out of the 100th World Series. The St. Louis Cardinals turned out to be just another National League
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How could this scruffy, relentless bunch of baseball throwbacks have one most valuable player? By definition, they could not. Who would it, should it, be? David Ortiz? Curt Schilling? Pedro Martinez? Johnny Damon? Derek Lowe? Keith Foulke? Mark Bellhorn?
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ST. LOUIS -- The Dodgers absolutely love the team persona that they nurtured throughout the long regular season, the never-say-die, don&#39;t-count-us-out, play-&#39;til-the-end Comeback King thing.
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In a matter of a few years, Albert Pujols emerged as one of baseball&#039;s premier sluggers.
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Derek Lowe came through where Dave Ferriss failed. And Jim Lonborg. And Roger Clemens and Bruce Hurst, too.