Archive for September, 2009
NL Capsules
PITTSBURGH -Bronson Arroyo limited Pittsburgh to one run over seven innings and the Cincinnati Reds completed their second sweep of the plummeting Pirates in less than a month, winning 4-1 on Thursday to push the Pirates closer to a 100-loss season.
Joey Votto had a two-run double following Drew Suttons RBI double in a four-run [...]
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Sweeney leaves after being hit in foot by pitch
Seattle Mariners designated hitter Mike Sweeney left Thursdays game against the Toronto Blue Jays after being hit in the right foot by a pitch.
Sweeney stayed in the game and ran the bases after Toronto left-hander Ricky Romero hit him to start the second inning. He later scored on a sacrifice fly by Matt Tuiasosopo.
Ken Griffey [...]
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X-rays negative on Yankees C Posadas foot
Yankees catcher Jorge Posada has no broken bones in his foot after fouling a ball off his toes.
New York manager Joe Girardi will wait until the club returns home before deciding when Posada will play in the Yankees key weekend series against the Boston Red Sox.
Hes sore, limping a little bit, but theres no break, [...]
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AL Capsules
ANAHEIM, Calif -A J Burnett struck out 11 in his second win since July, and New York won a series at Anaheim for the first time since May 2004 with a 3-2 victory over Los Angeles on Wednesday.
On Tuesday night, New York became the first major league team to clinch a playoff berth.
Robinson Cano [...]
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Schilling wont run for Kennedys seat in Senate
Curt Schilling wont run for Edward M Kennedys seat in the US Senate.
The former Boston Red Sox pitcher made the announcement on Joe Buck Live on HBO on Tuesday night. Earlier this month, the 42-year-old Schilling expressed interest in running for the seat held by the Massachusetts Democrat for almost 50 years before he died [...]
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Arizonas Reyonlds ties his strikeout record
Arizona third baseman Mark Reynolds has tied his major league record of 204 strikeouts in a season by striking out against Matt Cain in the third inning of the Diamondbacks game against San Francisco.
Reynolds is the only player in major league history to strike out at least 200 times in a season. He set the [...]
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Gonzalez leaves game with tight hamstring
Carlos Gonzalez left the Colorado Rockies game Tuesday night against San Diego with a tight left hamstring.
Gonzalez, who led off the bottom of the first inning with a standup triple and scored on a balk, was replaced in left field in the bottom of the second inning by Seth Smith, who doubled and scored in [...]
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Giants prospect Villalona charged with murder
A top prospect for the San Francisco Giants was charged with murder in the death of a 25-year-old man last weekend at a bar in his Caribbean homeland.
Angel Villalona, who received a club-record $2.1 million bonus when he was signed by the Giants in 2006, wore a bulletproof vest Monday to his hearing at a [...]
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San Francisco 2B leaves with leg injury
San Francisco Giants second baseman Freddy Sanchez left Monday nights game against Arizona in the first inning with a twisted left knee.
Sanchez was helped off the field immediately after Mark Reynolds of the Diamondbacks hit a two-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the inning. Sanchez may have been hurt on the [...]
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AL Capsules
MINNEAPOLIS -Placido Polanco drove in three runs, Detroits bullpen pitched four shutout innings and the Tigers avoided a three-game sweep with a 6-2 win over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday to increase their AL Central lead to three games.
Ryan Raburn homered for slumping Detroit, which won for the second time in six games and fourth [...]
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