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| Zimmerman's expected return highlights Nats-Giants tilt |
MLB Baseball |
07/22/2008 |
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| two career games (1 start) against the Giants. He faced San Francisco in a 10-1 loss on June 6 of this season, yielding eight runs -- five earned -- and 10 hits in just three innings of work. The Giants were just swept in three games at home by the Milwaukee Brewers and suffered their ninth setback in 10 tries with Sunday's 7-4 loss. Starting pitcher Tim Lincecum, who was back after a bout with the flu that caused him to miss the All-Star game, showed no ill effects but was hurt by two homers as he gave up five |
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| NL Central hopefuls meet in St. Louis |
MLB Baseball |
07/21/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Two prime contenders in the National League playoff race begin an important four-game series tonight at St. Louis' Busch Stadium, where the red-hot Cardinals put a five-game win streak on the line against a Milwaukee Brewers squad thats on a roll of its own right now. The Cardinals currently occupy the top spot in the NL Wild Card standings with a 57-43 record, but the division-rival Brewers are lurking just a game back and enter this key set having won four straight contests. Both teams are |
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| Giants deal Durham to Milwaukee |
MLB Baseball |
07/20/2008 |
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| San Francisco, CA (Best E Casino) - The San Francisco Giants have traded second baseman Ray Durham to the Milwaukee Brewers for Single-A outfield prospect Darren Ford and Triple-A left-hander Steve Hammond. Durham, who held the right to negate the trade with his 10-plus years of MLB service, gave the go-ahead to finalize the deal following Milwaukee's 7-4 win over San Francisco Sunday, completing a three-game sweep. Durham, who is in the final season of a two-year $14.5 million contract, sat out the series wit |
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| Giants, Lincecum hope to avoid sweep against Milwaukee |
MLB Baseball |
07/20/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Phenom Tim Lincecum returns from a bout with the flu, as he tries to help the San Francisco Giants avoid a three-game sweep at the hands of the Milwaukee Brewers at AT&T Park. Milwaukee swept the Giants at Miller Park earlier in the season, but has lost five of its last seven in San Francisco. In fact the Brewers have not completed a Bay Area sweep since turning the trick from June 21 -23, 1999. Lincecum, meanwhile, got sick while in New York for Tuesday's All-Star Game and had to be hosp |
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| Sheets gets his second half started in San Fran |
MLB Baseball |
07/19/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Ben Sheets tries to follow up a sensational first half of the season this afternoon when he toes the hill for the Milwaukee Brewers in the second test of their three-game series with the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park. Sheets has remained relatively injury free this season and is 10-3 with a 2.85 earned run average. His strong first half earned him the right to start for the National League at Tuesday's All-Star Game, where he allowed one hit and struck out three in two scoreless innin |
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| Rox hope for some home cooking against Bucs |
MLB Baseball |
07/19/2008 |
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| ed four of its last five. The Pirates have also dropped five straight and nine of their last 11 away from home. Colorado will pin its hopes on left-hander Jorge De La Rosa, who has lost two of his last three decisions. De La Rosa was hammered by the Milwaukee Brewers in his final start before the break on July 10, as he allowed seven runs and nine hits in 3 2/3 innings to slip to 3-5 on the season, while raising his ERA to 7.26. De La Rosa has faced the Pirates five times (one start) in his career, going 1-1 wit |
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| Brewers crush Giants as CC flirts with shutout, again |
MLB Baseball |
07/19/2008 |
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| San Francisco, CA (Best E Casino) - CC Sabathia pitched his second consecutive dominating complete game effort, as the Milwaukee Brewers downed the San Francisco Giants, 9-1, in the opener of a three-game set at AT&T Park. Sabathia (9-8) allowed only the one run on four hits without walking a batter. He fanned 10, doubled and scored a run. This after he went the distance in the Brewers last game before the break helping his cause at the plate with a home run. "I'm doing what I need to do to help the team w |
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| Sabathia, Brewers visit Giants |
MLB Baseball |
07/18/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - CC Sabathia makes his third start as a member of the Milwaukee Brewers this evening in the first of three games against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park. Sabathia was brought into Milwaukee with the hopes he would help the team reach the postseason for the first time since winning the American League crown in 1982. The Brewers, though, start the second half five games back of the Chicago Cubs in the NL Central and 1 1/2 games back of the St. Louis Cardinals for the wild card. The 26- |
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| 2008 Summer Olympic Games Preview - Baseball |
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07/17/2008 |
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| ama in 2006, as well as a 2007 World Cup win. Team USA will be led by power-hitting outfielder Matt LaPorta, who was recently traded to the Cleveland Indians as part of the CC Sabathia deal. LaPorta, the seventh overall pick in the 2007 draft by the Milwaukee Brewers, was also a member of the 2005 collegiate USA Baseball National Team. "We had heard a lot of good things and we have a number of scouts that join conference calls and talk about players and we look at numbers. The main thing I liked once I saw him i |
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| Volquez makes final start before break against Brewers |
MLB Baseball |
07/12/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Edinson Volquez will make a final tune-up before next week's All-Star Game when the Cincinnati Reds standout leads his team into another matchup with the Milwaukee Brewers from Miller Park. Volquez earned his first career selection to the Midsummer Classic with a brilliant first half of his debut season with the Reds. The hard-throwing right-hander, acquired by Cincinnati from Texas last December in exchange for fellow All-Star Josh Hamilton, tops all National League hurlers with a 2.36 earne |
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