Taveras runs hitting streak to 30 games
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Houston Astros outfielder Willy Taveras extended his hitting streak to 30 games when he beat out an infield single to third base to start Sunday's game in Pittsburgh.
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Ichiro leads the majors with 223 hits, 34 short of the all-time single-season record. He has 27 games remaining to reach the record of 257 hits, set by George Sisler in 1920 with the St.
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He&#39;s done just fine when the Indians have scored a lot of runs. The five-game winning streak from July 20 through Aug. 14, when the Tribe scored 60 runs, and that 22-0 victory over the Yankees on Aug. 31 come to mind.
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Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners broke Major League Baseball&#39;s single-season hit record with two singles against the Texas Rangers.
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For the Braves, Tuesday&#39;s rainout means they&#39;re scheduled to close the season with 27 games in 27 days, including doubleheaders today against the Phillies and Monday against the Mets in New York.
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Mark Teixeira hit his 30th home run of the season Saturday to lead the Texas Rangers to their eighth straight win, 5-3 over the Kansas City Royals.
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He's supposed to be the jump-starter, the man who gets the Rockies going. First man up and, ideally, first man on. "It starts with me," said center fielder Willy Taveras. Problem is, after two games of the World Series, it had been ending with him, too.
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This crazy run for Colorado just goes on and on. Now, Willy Taveras has joined the fun. Taveras strolled to first base with the decisive RBI after sprinting toward the gap for a diving catch, and the Rockies kept on racing toward the World Series.
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Jim Thomeâs 500th home run was a game-winner. He hit a two-run shot in the bottom of the ninth inning yesterday to give the Chicago White Sox a 9-7 victory against the Los Angeles Angels, becoming the 23rd player â and third this season â to reach 500 home runs.
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Chase Utley extended his hitting streak to 31 games Sunday night with a sixth-inning single for the Philadelphia Phillies in the second game of a doubleheader against Florida.
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Tom Glavine is inching closer to 300 wins &#151; and retirement. Needing 10 victories to reach the milestone, the New York Mets' ace sounds as though he plans to call it quits after this season.
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Fausto Carmona pitched seven-plus innings to help the Cleveland Indians avoid a three-game sweep with a 5-2 win over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday. Casey Blake extended the majors' longest hitting streak of the season to 26 games as Cleveland won for only the third time in eight games.
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Ichiro&#39;s 3-for-5 night at the plate versus Texas on Friday gave those in attendance at Safeco Field a night they will never forget, as the Mariners&#39; right fielder set a new single-season hits record with 259.
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Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada is placed on the 15-day DL, ending his streak of consecutive games played at 1,152, fifth longest in history.
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Arizona leftfielder Quinton McCracken left the game with a strained right groin after chasing after a foul ball in the first inning...Bautista extended his hitting streak to eight games...Los Angeles first baseman Hee-Seop Choi is mired in an 0-for-12
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Ichiro Suzuki had two more hits to move within eight of George Sisler&#39;s major league record, and Randy Winn&#39;s infield single in the ninth helped the Seattle Mariners end the Texas Rangers&#39; five-game winning streak with an 8-7 victory Friday night.
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Mark Teixeira hit a career-high three homers and drove in seven runs, and the Texas Rangers hit six home runs Thursday night in a 15-1 rout of the Baltimore Orioles.