Nationals 'Had No  Chance' Vs. Penny
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The Dodgers use a six-run seventh inning to turn Tuesday's game into an easy 10-0 win over the Nationals.
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The Philadelphia Phillies won a coin  toss giving them home field advantage in the event of a  tie-breaking game with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the National  League wild card, Major League Baseball announced on Monday.
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The Arizona Diamondbacks are running into major difficulty in the most unlikely of places: Pittsburgh. The Pirates beat Arizona again, tightening the NL West race.
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Los Angeles Dodgers: What&#39;s a Penny worth? Nothing for the Dodgers, at least for the rest of this season. Right-hander Brad Penny left his first start in more than five weeks in the fourth inning Wednesday
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In a spot similar to Game 7 of last season's American League Championship Series, Pedro MartÃ­nez got another chance Friday night. Again, he failed.
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With all the questions that have flowed through Josh Beckett's initial season with the Red Sox -- Why all the home runs? When is he going to live up to his potential? Why did Anibal Sanchez, and not Beckett, throw the first no-hitter between the two? -- the final effort of the season from the prize trade acquisition seemed strangely ...
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Brad Penny finished his two-inning stint, then took off on the dead run. The All-Star ace cut across the field at Dodgertown, darted behind the right-field fence and ducked into the clubhouse.
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Linda Cropp. What are you thinking? What could your motivation possibly have been to issue your 11th-hour amendment to the Nationalsâ stadium deal that would require Major League Baseball to pay half of the bill?
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Without a trusted option to protect a four-run lead in the ninth inning, Detroit manager Jim Leyland turned to closer Todd Jones on Monday in a non-save situation. Jones promptly gave up three runs, before getting Ronnie Belliard to ground out with runners on the corners to preserve a 9-8 victory over the Washington Nationals.
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Pujols hit his sixth homer of the playoffs, while Edmonds hit his third and second of the LCS...Sanders also had three hits...St. Louis&#39; two runs in the first inning snapped a scoreless streak of 14 frames
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Too bad for Mike Matheny the ballots for National League MVP were cast before the start of the playoffs. With the Cardinals&#39; Big Three nearly invisible for last night&#39;s Game 2
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In danger of losing more ground in the NL wild-card race, the Philadelphia Phillies scraped out an 8-7 victory over the Washington Nationals on Jimmy Rollins' two-run triple with two outs in the 14th inning Wednesday night.
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When Clay Buchholz was asked about coming out of the bullpen in Double A, back before he made his major league debut, back before he threw his no-hitter, he made a face. Not his first choice, clearly.
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Justin Verlander threw 100 mph heat, crazy curves and a tantalizing changeup. No-hit stuff, indeed. With a big assist from his shortstop, Verlander pitched the first no-hitter in Comerica Park history, leading the Detroit Tigers over the Milwaukee Brewers 4-0 Tuesday night.
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a-flied out for Biddle in the 5th. b-flied out for Ayala in the 8th. c-singled for Mercker in the 9th. E--TBatista (13), JRivera (3).
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Brad Penny became the first starting pitcher to open a season 12-1 for the Dodgers since the franchise moved to Los Angeles in 1958, and Matt Kemp's three-run homer keyed a comeback from a four-run deficit in an 8-6 victory over the New York Mets on Saturday.
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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 ...