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| Phils try to bounce back against Cards |
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08/02/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - No team has hit more home runs in the majors this year than the Phillies. However, the St. Louis Cardinals will once again try to give Philadelphia a dose of its own medicine tonight, when the two clubs resume a three-game series at Busch Stadium. The Phillies are tied with the Marlins for the most homers hit in the majors so far this year, with each team clubbing 153. The Cardinals, meanwhile, have gone deep 119 times as a team this year. However, the Cardinals drilled three homers on Friday n |
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| Bucs attempt to make it two straight at Wrigley |
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08/02/2008 |
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| cago's attention and the two clubs resume a three-game series this afternoon at Wrigley Field. Chicago entered this series on a five-game winning streak that included a four-game sweep of Milwaukee, increasing the Cubs' edge over the Brewers and the St. Louis Cardinals by five games in the National League Central. However, Chicago's hot bats were silenced by Jeff Karstens in Friday's opener, as the Cubs fell in defeat, 3-0, trimming their edge in the division to four games. Aramis Ramirez went 2-for-3 for the Cubs |
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| Cardinals prepare for stretch run |
MLB Baseball |
08/01/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - With August already upon us, every game from here on out is vital for the playoff-hungry St. Louis Cardinals. The club is battered and bruised right now and sits tied with the Milwaukee Brewers at five games behind the Chicago Cubs for the top spot in the National League Central division. St. Louis and Milwaukee are also even for the NL wild card lead, but it could have been a lot different had the Cardinals not been recently swept in four games by the Brewers from July 21-24 at Busch Stadium. |
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| High-flying Cubs come home to battle Bucs |
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08/01/2008 |
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| ainst the new-look Pittsburgh Pirates at Wrigley Field. Chicago headed to Milwaukee on Monday with a slim one-game lead over the Brewers for supremacy in the NL Central. A four-game sweep later and the Cubs have upped their edge over the Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals to five games, while improving to 21 games over .500 at 65-44. Chicago has not been 21 games above .500 since September 24, 2004. The Cubs, who own the best home mark in the NL at 39-14, outscored Milwaukee 31-11 in the series and won Thursday's fin |
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| Brewers hope to get back on track in Atlanta |
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08/01/2008 |
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| nst the Houston Astros. He yielded eight runs and 11 hits in six innings, as the Brewers suffered an 11-6 setback. Suppan fell to 5-7 in 20 overall starts this season. Atlanta ended a five-game slide and avoided a four-game sweep at the hands of the St. Louis Cardinals with Thursday's 9-4 win over the Cards in the series finale. Clint Sammons homered for the first time in his career and finished with three RBI in a winning cause. Sammons, who was called up from the minors on Monday, was appearing in his sixth majo |
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| Sammons slams Braves past Cardinals |
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07/31/2008 |
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| Atlanta, GA (Best E Casino) - Clint Sammons hit his first career homer and drove in three runs, as the Atlanta Braves avoided a four-game sweep with a 9-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Sammons, who was called up from the minors on Monday, was appearing in his sixth major league game and recorded his first RBI of his career. "It's something that I'll remember forever, just like the first hit I got last year," Sammons said. "To get a home run and give us the lead is definitely a positive." Mike Hampton was |
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| Cardinals pull away to beat Braves in Carpenter's return |
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07/30/2008 |
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| Atlanta, GA (Best E Casino) - Joe Mather hit a two-run home run and Chris Carpenter allowed a run over four innings in his first start in nearly 16 months as the St. Louis Cardinals topped the free-falling Atlanta Braves, 7-2, in the third of four games at Turner Field. Carpenter, the 2005 National League Cy Young winner, allowed five hits while walking two and striking out two on 67 pitches in his first start since Opening Day 2007. The right-hander underwent Tommy John ligament replacement surgery last July an |
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| Cards take Carpenter off DL |
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07/30/2008 |
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| Atlanta, GA (Best E Casino) - St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter was reinstated from the disabled list on Wednesday. The Former Cy Young Award winner and postseason hero will return to the mound for the first time in more than a year Wednesday night, when St. Louis visits the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. He started on Opening Day in 2007, but complained of right elbow pain after allowing five runs in six innings of a loss to the New York Mets. He eventually underwent ligament replacement surgery one |
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| Ace in the hole: Cards' Carpenter returns to face Braves |
MLB Baseball |
07/30/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Former Cy Young Award winner and postseason hero Chris Carpenter returns to the mound for the first time in more than a year tonight, when the St. Louis Cardinals visit the Atlanta Braves in the third test of a four-game series at Turner Field. Carpenter won the Cy Young Award in 2005 after going 21-5 with a 2.83 earned run average, then helped the Cardinals to an improbable World Series title in 2006 by winning three postseason games. He started on Opening Day in 2007, but complained of right |
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| Cardinals shoot for second straight win over Braves |
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07/29/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Right-hander Todd Wellemeyer makes his first career start against Atlanta tonight, when the St. Louis Cardinals visit the Braves in the second test of a four-game series at Turner Field. A journeyman reliever through the initial four seasons of his career, Wellemeyer didn't make his first start in the big leagues until 2007 with the Cardinals, for whom he went 3-2 in 20 appearances (11 starts) last season. Wellemeyer had a surprisingly good early start to this year for St. Louis, winning seven |
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