Major League Baseball Playoffs Set to Begin
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The Major League Baseball playoffs are set to begin Tuesday after a regular season that provided lots of excitement. The Houston Astros had been pre-season favorites to make the National League playoffs, but
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NL wild card spot. San Francisco must win today and hope the Astros lose at. home to the Rockies to force a one-game playoff tomorrow afternoon at SBC Park.
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Some baseball teams are built for the long grind of the season, some for a short playoff series.
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The Chicago Cubs can afford few mistakes in their quest for a playoff spot over the seasonâs final week. Chicago will look to remain atop the NL wild-card race when it opens a four-game series against the Cincinnati Reds at Wrigley Field.
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Orlando HernÃ¡ndez, the scheduled Game 1 starter, could be added to the roster for the National League Championship Series.
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The Yankees will open the 2005 regular season the way they closed the 2004 postseason, with a series against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.
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First-round playoff games will be shown only on cable starting next season as part of baseball&#039;s new seven-year television deal with Fox and TBS, a total package worth almost &#36;3 billion.
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Major league baseball's season opener will be played by the Yankees and Red Sox in New York on Sunday night, April 3.
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Roger Clemens starts for the Houston Astros against the St. Louis Cardinals in the decisive Game 7 of the NL championship series on Thursday night. The winner advances to the World Series to face the Boston Red Sox, who pulled off the biggest comeback in baseball history Wednesday night.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers again try to clinch their first playoff berth in eight years when they host the San Francisco Giants on Saturday.
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(Sports Network) - The anticipation has been building for a year, and finally tonight the rematch will begin, as the Boston Red Sox battle the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series.
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The playoff-bound Red Sox are home tonight to start the final six games of the regular season, and manager Terry Francona continues to straddle the line between playing for the division title (and the best record in the league) and getting his team ready for the postseason.
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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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Major League Baseball resumes action on Thursday for the nominal second half of the six-month campaign with Barry Bonds closing in on Hank Aaron, and some tight division races adding spice to the season.
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Itâs risky to call a series in late September that neither team really has to win a playoff preview. Just the same, the three-game series between the Twins and Yankees that concludes Thursday is as compelling as such series get.
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The Boston Red Sox want to start the playoffs right now.
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The New York Yankees are back in the playoffs, locking up their spot with four games left in the season. Boston, Cleveland and Los Angeles have had their tickets punched for a while.