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| Ellis' slam lifts A's in 12th, halts Angels' seven-game win streak |
MLB Baseball |
06/08/2008 |
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| Oakland, CA (Best E Casino) - Mark Ellis belted his third career grand slam in the bottom of the 12th inning and the Oakland Athletics avoided a three- game sweep with a 7-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels. With one away in the 12th, Gregorio Petit broke a stretch of 15 A's batters retired with a liner over the glove of shortstop Maicer Izturis. Rajai Davis then sliced a single to right field, but Emil Brown went down on strikes. A walk to Travis Buck loaded the bases and Ellis drove the first pitch he saw fro |
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| A's reinstate P Brown from DL |
MLB Baseball |
06/08/2008 |
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| Oakland, CA (Best E Casino) - The Oakland Athletics reinstated pitcher Andrew Brown from the 15-day disabled list on Sunday. Brown made 17 relief appearances with a 2.45 earned run average before undergoing an appendectomy on May 20. He tossed 1 1/3 scoreless innings in the A's dramatic 7-3 win in 12 innings. To make room for the right-hander, the club optioned pitcher Dallas Braden to Triple-A Sacramento. The southpaw was 1-0 with a 4.85 ERA in seven games for Oakland. |
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| Halos go for seventh straight win in Oakland |
MLB Baseball |
06/07/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will try to capture their seventh consecutive victory when they take on the Oakland Athletics in the second matchup of a three-game set at McAfee Coliseum. Jon Garland will try to get back in the win column when he takes the hill tonight. Garland has just one victory in his last five starts and has not won since May 21st when he led the Angels to a 4-3 win over Toronto. This past Monday the right-hander tossed just five innings against Toronto, allowing three |
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| Tigers shuffle roster, put Santiago, Thomas on DL |
MLB Baseball |
06/06/2008 |
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| etroit, MI (Best E Casino) - The Detroit Tigers placed infielder Ramon Santiago and outfielder Clete Thomas on the 15-day disabled list on Friday, amidst several roster moves. Santiago suffered a separated left shoulder in Wednesday's game with the Oakland Athletics after diving for a ground ball in the seventh inning. He was 1-for-2 with a walk before leaving and is batting .361 (13-for-36) on the season with 11 runs batted in and 10 runs scored in 18 games. Thomas, who is batting .292 with five RBI in 65 at-b |
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| Angels try to pull away from A's in AL West clash |
MLB Baseball |
06/06/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The American League West-leading LA Angels of Anaheim can pull away from the division-rival Oakland Athletics tonight, when the two ballclubs get together for the first of three straight games at McAfee Coliseum. The Angels are 3 1/2 games ahead of the Athletics in the division standings and have won a season-high five straight games, including a three-game sweep of the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field to open a six-game road trip. In Thursday's 5-4 victory in the series finale, Torii Hunter |
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| Toronto Blue Jays |
MLB Baseball Transaction |
06/06/2008 |
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| Activated pitcher Brian Wolfe from the 15-day disabled list and optioned him to Syracuse (Int.); acquired infielder Kevin Melillo from the Oakland Athletics for cash considerations. |
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| Rays select SS Tim Beckham with top pick in draft |
Headlines |
06/05/2008 |
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| ey're confident he has the athleticism, work ethic and attitude to become a complete player. Second baseman Jemile Weeks, brother of Milwaukee's Rickie Weeks, was one of three University of Miami players selected in the opening round, going to the Oakland Athletics at No. 12. While six first basemen were selected within the first 23 picks, only two pitchers - Matusz and Crow - were taken in the top 10. But seven pitchers were chosen during a 10-pick stretch from No. 19 to No. 28, where the New York Yankees w |
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| Orioles outright INF Hernandez; claim OF Fiorentino |
MLB Baseball |
06/05/2008 |
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| Baltimore, MD (Best E Casino) - The Baltimore Orioles outrighted infielder Luis Hernandez to Triple-A Norfolk on Thursday and claimed outfielder Jeff Fiorentino off waivers from the Oakland Athletics. Hernandez cleared waivers after batting .241 (19-for-71) with three RBI in 36 games this season. He appeared in 30 games last year, compiling a .290 average with seven RBI. Fiorentino was a 2004 third round pick by the Orioles and played 32 combined games in Baltimore in the 2005-06 campaigns. He batted .253 in t |
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| Miami closer eager for 2nd shot at College World Series |
This Day in Sports |
06/05/2008 |
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| likely have to be at their best this weekend against Arizona (41-17). Miami had three players chosen in the first round of Thursday's draft; first baseman Yonder Alonso went No. 7 to Cincinnati and second baseman Jemile Weeks got taken 12th by the Oakland Athletics, with Gutierrez going 15 picks later. But Arizona boasts multiple first-rounders as well: right-hander Ryan Perry - he of a 98 mph fastball - went No. 21 to Detroit and left-hander Daniel Schlereth was selected 26th overall by the Arizona Diamondb |
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| Tigers punchless at the plate |
MLB Baseball |
06/05/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Of all the things that have gone wrong for the Detroit Tigers this season, hitting was not supposed to be one of them. But as the team tries to regroup following a series sweep at the hands of the Oakland Athletics, manager Jim Leyland is trying to make sense of how his lineup could go so cold. "If this club, up to this point, had hit like it was expected to, we'd be close to being in first place," Leyland told the Detroit Free Press. "We score one run, two runs. If this club was doing anythi |
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