Oh man, what a mess. On Sunday afternoon, the Red Sox treated us to one of the worst displays of outfield play ever seen and some seriously horrible pitching didn’t help matters, as the Jays molested Boston 13-4. This is supposed to be the best defensive teams in baseball, but you would have never known […]
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In this week’s Spikes Up, we take a look at Beltran Perez, the latest in a series of pitchers to come out of nowhere this season. With his first start, he made a strong claim for a starting gig with the Nats in 2007. We then check out how Marcus Giles, unlike most Braves this
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On Saturday afternoon, we were back down at the Rogers Centre for Act II of the Battle for Second Place. It’s late, and I’m running on fumes, so just so quick observations from the action: Devern Hansack took the mound for the Bosox. Who? Ya, don’t worry. Plenty of people were left scrambling for their
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Talk about a letdown. When the RotoWidow and I bought tickets for this weekend’s Boston-Toronto series way back when, we were expecting this to be a very exciting weekend. Would the AL East be on the line? At the very least, we assumed, the Wild Card could be decided by these four pivotal games. Instead,
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Remember Ken Griffey’s “minor” toe injury? It’s now cost him 14 games, and he’s apparently in no rush to return to the lineup. Why should he hurry back? I mean, the Reds were just three and a half games back in the Wild Card when Griffey went down, and they’re 6-8 since, dropping five and
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Big Papi helped salvage something for the hurting Red Sox Nation yesterday when he pounded two home runs to become Boston’s single-season home run king with 52. The Daily Dose explores this and then has a closer look at John Smoltz, whose 2007 option was finally picked up by the Braves yesterday. You can read
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In today’s Daily Dose, we marvel at the exploits of Dontrelle Willis, who was an absolute one-man wrecking crew against the Mets last night. Not only did he come within two outs of a complete game win, but he hammered two long balls and an RBI single. Not bad for a day’s work. We also
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