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| Lowe, Loney lead Dodgers past Rockies |
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08/22/2008 |
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| cross the United States with a win," said Lowe, referring to the team's upcoming 10-game road trip starting in Philadelphia on Friday. "These next ten days are going to be a big test." The Dodgers currently stand two games behind the NL-West leading Arizona Diamondbacks, who won 4-1 behind Brandon Webb's big-league best 19th victory against San Diego. Jorge De La Rosa (6-7) was nearly as effective as Lowe, allowing two runs -- just one earned -- on four hits and two walks but was credited with the loss. Clint Barme |
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| Dunn, D-Backs overcome early deficit to clip Padres |
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08/21/2008 |
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| Phoenix, AZ (Best E Casino) - Adam Dunn hit a three-run homer and walked twice, as the Arizona Diamondbacks held on for an 8-6 win over San Diego, in the second of three games with the Padres. The game was expected to be a pitchers' battle between Arizona's Dan Haren, who came into the game with a 2.96 earned run average, and San Diego ace Jake Peavy, who won the 2007 NL Cy Young Award and carried a 2.61 ERA into the contest. Instead, Haren (14-6) got enough run support to take the win, after allowing five runs o |
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| Haren, Peavy to go toe-to-toe in Diamondbacks-Padres tilt |
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08/20/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - A showdown between two of the top pitchers in the National League is on tap for tonight at Chase Field, where Dan Haren will lead the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second test of a three-game series versus Jake Peavy and the San Diego Padres. Haren is enjoying his first campaign with Arizona, having pitched to a 13-6 mark with a 2.96 earned run average in 25 starts. Haren has won five of his last six starts and defeated Colorado at Coors Field on Thursday, holding the Rockies to a pair of runs in |
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| Stewart, Hawpe power Rockies past Dodgers |
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08/20/2008 |
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| ore than five innings, but it's great to have a bullpen like ours." Jeff Kent finished 3-for-5 with two doubles and an RBI for Los Angeles, which has dropped two of three following a five-game win streak and fell one game back of the NL West-leading Arizona Diamondbacks. Matt Kemp registered an RBI and a run scored in the loss. Hiroki Kuroda (7-9), who started and yielded four runs on six hits over six innings, suffered the loss. Earlier Tuesday, the Dodgers acquired future Hall-of-Fame pitcher Greg Maddux from the |
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| Diamondbacks get a visit from lowly Padres |
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08/19/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The Arizona Diamondbacks are tied atop the National League West standings and will try to gain some ground against the inferior San Diego Padres tonight in the opener of a three-game series at Chase Field. Arizona, though, can not look past the Padres or its chances of capturing a division title will take a big blow. The D'Backs are currently knotted with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the West lead and had a three-game winning streak halted in the finale of a three-game series against the Houston |
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| Sabathia aims to stay perfect with Milwaukee in opener vs. Astros |
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08/18/2008 |
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| id baseball lately and will take its show on the road in tonight's opener of a seven-game road trip at Milwaukee and the New York Mets. The Astros ended a brief two-game slide and won for the ninth time in 11 tries with Sunday's 3-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the finale of a three-game series at Minute Maid Park. Starter Roy Oswalt tossed eight scoreless innings of one-hit ball and Ty Wigginton's three-run homer in the opening frame provided all the scoring, as the Astros avoided a three-game sweep. O |
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| Oswalt shuts down D'Backs as 'Stros triumph |
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08/17/2008 |
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| Houston, TX (Best E Casino) - Roy Oswalt tossed eight solid innings of one- hit ball and Ty Wigginton's three-run homer in the opening frame provided all the scoring, as the Houston Astros avoided a three-game sweep with a 3-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Wigginton finished 3-for-4 to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 14 games. The San Diego native went 9-for-12 in the series with two home runs, two doubles, a triple and five RBI. Miguel Tejada had two hits, including a double, and a run scored for |
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| Big Unit continues quest for 300 wins in Houston |
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08/17/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Randy Johnson resumes his quest towards reaching one of baseball's most coveted pitching milestones when the veteran hurler takes the hill today for the Arizona Diamondbacks, who aim for a three-game sweep of the Houston Astros today at Minute Maid Park. Johnson enters tonight's tilt with 294 career victories, 10 of which have come during his solid comeback season with the Diamondbacks in 2008. The imposing 44-year-old got one step closer to his goal of 300 wins Tuesday in Colorado, where the Bi |
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| Montero, Young hit grand slams as Diamondbacks throttle Astros |
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08/17/2008 |
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| Houston, TX (Best E Casino) - Miguel Montero hit a pair of home runs, including a grand slam, and added a double as the Arizona Diamondbacks clobbered the Houston Astros, 11-5, in the middle installment of a three-game set at Minute Maid Park. Chris Young added a grand slam, the first time in club history that the team has two slams in one game, while Adam Dunn went 2-for-2 with three walks, an RBI and two runs scored for the Diamondbacks, who have won five of their last six. Yusmeiro Petit (2-3) got the win as h |
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| Nats drop ninth straight in drubbing to Rockies |
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08/16/2008 |
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| n chipped in an RBI single to make it 13-6. Game Notes Hernandez pitched 3 1/2 seasons for the Washington/Montreal franchise earlier in his career and recorded a pair of 15-win campaigns during his tenure there. He was traded by the Nationals to the Arizona Diamondbacks on August 7, 2006...Washington did beat the Rockies three times in four tries at Coors Field earlier this month, but Colorado is 14-6 in the series since 2006...Prior to the game Colorado signed pitcher Oscar Villarreal to a minor league contract an |
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