Call to lefty wasn&#39;t right one
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Jarrod Washburn is a starter by trade, not a closer, a man more accustomed to easing his way into games rather than nailing doors shut.
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When you&#39;ve lost 21 games in a season, how tough can it be to deal with a runner in scoring position and nobody out? Tigers left-hander Mike Maroth ruined three such opportunities for Cleveland
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For the second straight game, the Rangers used a lefthanded reliever against Mark Bellhorn even though the switch-hitting second baseman has fared better against lefthanders (.313) than righthanders (.244). Texas opted to try protecting an 8-1 lead by sending out lefthander Ron Mahay yesterday against Bellhorn. Lefthanded hitters were batting .202 against Mahay and righthanders .238. So it was that ...
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Woody Williams tried cutting the ball. He tried sinking it, tried spinning it. He threw fastballs over the middle, inside, up, down, and he changed speeds.
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No doubt that Frank Francisco should have the book thrown at him for what he did in Oakland Monday night. But for that matter, so should the rest of us, for condoning the type of behavior that preceded the Texas Rangers relief pitcher&#39;s errant toss.
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&quot;Iâm happy we won, but I was kind of mad I got out there and I just didnât do the job in the last inning,&quot; he said. &quot;Thatâs what Iâm upset about.
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CHICAGO -- Mike Timlin's reaction when he saw Manny Ramirez slip on Ben Davis's routine fly ball was probably no different than yours was last night. &quot;I just -- I'm thinking as I'm watching him go down, I'm saying, `No, no, no, no,' &quot; said the Red Sox reliever, who had been called upon in the bottom of the eighth ...
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ST. LOUIS - If that was Roger Clemens&#39; last game, he should be proud to have been a part of it. And angry to have made himself the goat of it.
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The sports pages were an early-morning kick in the stomach. The dreary skies out the window didn&#39;t help. And the constantly ringing telephone with the die-hard Yankees fans - &quot;wait &#39;til next year,&quot; they mumbled
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Maybe he read the wrong scouting report, and mixed up his Japanese pitchers. Maybe Barry Bonds was looking for the gyroball instead of the fastball that the Giants' slugger took from Hideki Okajima for a third strike in the eighth inning yesterday afternoon, with a game there to be won for the visitors.
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- In the kind of performance that got him shipped out of New York, Jose Contreras was roughed up by the Texas Rangers on Tuesday.
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The Cubs&#39; glass had to be half empty because these were two games they should have swept. The Marlins&#39; wound up half full because these were two games they had every excuse to surrender.
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According to Javier Vazquez, the Yankees would be wrong to deal him to Arizona for Randy Johnson. Talking in Ponce, Puerto Rico, soft-spoken Vazquez questioned the Yankees&#39; intelligence if they
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Sammy Sosa&#39;s leaping ability was criticized Tuesday, but he left his feet at the right time Wednesday. Sosa&#39;s diving catch in the eighth inning Wednesday night helped
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Jarrod Washburn is a starter by trade, not a closer, a man more accustomed to easing his way into games rather than nailing doors shut. Early in his career, the Angels lefthander saw his share of the relief biz, and it was just enough for him to know it wasn't really his calling.
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Mike Hampton didn&#39;t get the memo describing Citizens Bank Park as a great place to be a hitter. The Atlanta lefty, who wasn&#39;t having the best August, must have been
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Alex Rodriguezâs behavior on Wednesday was clever or childish, cunning gamesmanship or borderline cheating, or maybe something in between.