This Date in Baseball for Oct. 28
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1958 &#151; Construction began on the new ballpark for the Giants in San Francisco. The rocks in the area resembled candlesticks.
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AARON: 755  BONDS: 747  WEDNESDAY: Struck out as pinch-hitter in ninth.  TODAY: Off day  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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(Sports Network) - Jason Schmidt, leading contender for this year&#39;s NL Cy Young Award, gets the call for the San Francisco Giants tonight in the second contest of a four-game series against the visiting Montreal Expos.
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1919 &#151; Bert Adams of the Philadelphia Phillies tied a National League record for catchers as he recorded seven assists in one game.
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Curt Schilling and Pedro Martinez are revved up. Roger Clemens and Roy Oswalt are rarin' to go. Baseball fans are ready, too. The shadows are getting longer, the leaves are starting to turn and pumpkins are showing up. And that means just one thing: It's October, and it's playoff time!
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San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds will be in the National League starting lineup when the 78th All-Star Game is played in San Francisco on July 10, Major League Baseball announced on Sunday.
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Three more baseball playoff games are on tap today with the Tigers playing the Yankees, the Cardinals visiting the Padres and the Mets hosting the Dodgers. The Yankees, Cards and Mets all have 1-0 leads in the best-of-five series. The A's-Twins series has the day off with the A's leading 2 games to none.
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Whaddya think? Let him close tonight? He threw only 99 pitches and he was still pumping high-octane gas at the end. Curt Schilling might be good for a batter or two in a pinch tonight.
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Like the autumn leaves, baseball changes in October. Pitchers dominate, and hitters desperately look for ways to score runs. By Andre Pichette, AP.
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It would have been easy to take the bait. Acknowledge that, yes, September is a traditionally difficult month offensively for catchers. That the season has been wearing him down. That the injuries he rarely admits to have caught up with him, making his bat slow and his stroke impotent. Instead, Jason Varitek claimed health, blamed his eyes, and thanked, once ...
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Baseball fans wanting to take their minds off a playoff not involving the Yankees can still find an October classic in the sky. The last total lunar eclipse in North America until March 2007
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Nomo improved to 5-5 in his career against Arizona in his 297th career start...Giovanni Carrara retired the side in the seventh for the Dodgers...The Diamondbacks activated pitcher Scott Service from the 15-day disabled list and recalled pitchers Randy
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Alex Rodriguez is about to do in November what he hasn't been able to do in October: Produce some real eye-popping numbers.
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1910 &#151; Nap Lajoie, in a batting race with Ty Cobb, collected eight hits for Cleveland in a season-ending doubleheader with the Browns. The hits were somewhat tainted, however, as St. Louis third baseman Red Corriden played back as Lajoie bunted safely six times. Regardless, Cobb was awarded the batting title by a fraction of a point.
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Derek Jeter used Wednesday's game as practice for his Mr. October routine. Jeter, who went 3 for 4, is getting an early start on his heroics.
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Break up the Red Sox. A similar cry could be heard from beaten rivals when the Yankees dominated the World Series half a century ago. Now that the Olde Towne Team has won its second October Classic in four years, how many of last night's champagne-spattered champions will be back next spring?
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Carlos Almanzar left the game with an apparent right forearm injury with two outs in the ninth...Texas beat the A&#39;s for only the seventh time in 18 outings this season, but have won three of four from Oakland...Mark Kotsay and Jermaine Dye had three hits