Oakland bullpen has been potential trouble spot
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Those who spend their summers in major-league bullpens can easily understand the emotions that led to Monday night&#39;s ugly incident in Oakland.
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OAKLAND, Calif. Texas reliever Frank Francisco has been arrested by Oakland police on a charge of aggravated battery. He threw a chair into the stands during the ninth inning of last night&#39;s game in Oakland, injuring two spectators.
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A fight broke out at a major league baseball game between the Oakland A&#39;s and Texas Rangers Monday night, and the incident should spark action to eliminate this problem in the future.
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Texas reliever Frank Francisco threw a chair at a fan in a lower box to the left of the Rangers' bullpen along the right-field line in the ninth inning against the Oakland Athletics on Monday night.
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Poor relief pitching plagued the Yankees Friday, as the bullpen gave up three runs in the fifth inning and four more in the sixth.
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For the Oakland Athletics players, reminders of the team's recent postseason failings have become increasingly tiresome.
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There has been an epidemic of bullpen failures throughout baseball, with closers not immune, prompting the thought that relievers are worse than ever.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (CP) - A fan was hurt Monday night when Texas reliever Frank Francisco threw a chair into a lower box by the Rangers&#39; bullpen along the right-field line near the end of a game against the Oakland Athletics.
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The Rangers were scrambling to firm up bullpen plans Friday night in the wake of suspensions handed out by Major League Baseball regarding the part that three Texas relievers
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The bullpen blew another one. The reliable relievers who carried the New York Yankees all season are coming apart at the most important moment. Mariano Rivera must be tired by now. Tom Gordon is struggling. Paul Quantrill is hurt. And the Yankees are halfway to the biggest collapse in postseason history.
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Pitcher Juan Padilla has dazzled his teammates this spring with his card tricks. Next, he will attempt to perform something even more impressive: win back his spot in the Metsâ bullpen.
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Paul Quantrill and Tom Gordon have formed an effective rubber-armed tandem in the Yankees&#39; bullpen this season. Going into the Yankees&#39; game against the Toronto Blue Jays
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There are few things more important in the playoffs than a well-functioning bullpen, and it's obvious if the Red Sox don't get back to that state, they'll be out of the playoffs sooner than they would like.
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This is how the AL West was un-won: Basically, the same way it was so often won. How ironic that the Oakland Athletics â-inners of the last three division championships with
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- If the Oakland Athletics make it all the way to the World Series, the Raiders may have to shift the dates of two home games.
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This wasn't the first time Dan Haren didn't feel very good warming up in the bullpen.
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When former Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey decided to build the bullpen in right field at Fenway Park in 1940, it wasn't as a security measure for his relief pitchers.