Holliday strategy in 8th was way off base
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Maybe it wouldn't have mattered anyway. Maybe Jonathan Papelbon would have struck out cleanup man Todd Helton, as he did to lead off the ninth, and Matt Holliday would have been stranded, as he had been all night.
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The Oakland Athletics are baffled by their late-season collapse. It's so completely out of character. The A's are headed home for an even longer winter this year thanks to their problematic pitching in crunch time and a sputtering offense that caused this club to miss the playoffs for the first time in five years.
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On first blush, today's Division 1-AA playoff game between Massachusetts and Lafayette seems to be a mismatch of colossal proportions.
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The history-defying Red Sox have touched on another crazy way to try to win their first World Series in 86 years -- by playing some of the shoddiest defense since the birth of the Fall Classic.
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This isn&#39;t good news for the Phillies, who thought they had beefed up their pitching staff, or for the Marlins, who felt their offense gave them an edge.
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The numbers are so one-sided, it&#039;s startling. The American League is 8-0-1 in the last nine All-Star games. AL teams also swept the past two World Series and won an overwhelming 61 percent of interleague games against the NL this season.
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No. 700 was a modest home run. It traveled about two rows deep into the left-field bleachers. It brought some spangly streamers out of the upper deck and none of the Giants from the dugout, except for AJ Pierzynski
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It was long overdue, and Alex Rodriguez knew it. Heck, everyone connected with the Yankees knew it. An abject failure for much of the season with runners in scoring position -- and
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NEW YORK - Yankee officials have said that pitching is their top offseason priority, but they obviously didn&#39;t think it was worth it to give Jon Lieber $8 million to be a part of their rotation next season, even though he was one of their only reliable
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It was notable not only for the way in which Kevin Youkilis littered the box score with hits - again - but for the way in which he almost littered the base paths with outs.
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Barry Bondsâs threat to Hank Aaronâs career record of 755 home runs couldnât generate more of a sideshow, which includes a possible indictment.
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Derek Lowe came through where Dave Ferriss failed. And Jim Lonborg. And Roger Clemens and Bruce Hurst, too.
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When he departed Game 1 after 4 1/3 innings, he was disappointed in his inability to throw strikes, having walked five and allowed eight runs on seven hits in a 10-3 drubbing. Last night, with a World Series berth at stake in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, C.C. Sabathia's abject humiliation was replaced by the ...
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TORONTO -- The powerful Red Sox offense, which last week had the Nation checking Yankee box scores for the first time in weeks, was rendered all but powerless last night by the artistry of Blue Jays lefthander Ted Lilly.
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Roy Halladay settled down after a rocky start to pitch an excellent game. No surprise there. His performance at the plate was utterly shocking, especially considering he didn't take batting practice.
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Not even another homer by Big Papi could make up for Boston's awful outfield defense.
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It took The Boss more than an hour to emerge from Yankee Stadium after his team&#39;s descent into history-book infamy last night with its 10-3 loss to the Red Sox in Game 7 of the ALCS.