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On Deck Padres visit Arizona
The Padres were 7-2 at Chase Field last season, their best record ever at what had been a house of horrors. Going into 2012, the Padres had an all-time record of 38-83 at the Diamondbacks downtown Phoenix home. Arizona opens the weekend in a dead heat with San Francisco and Colorado for the National League West lead. The Padres won two of the first three games played against Arizona May 3-5 at ...
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College team takes video-bombing to new level
The ring-leader in the above videos appears to be 5-foot-8 infielder Ryan Quinn, number 30, a New Jersey native whose mock interview concludes the compilation above. That’s him riding on a teammate’s shoulders at the 12-second mark, being taken away like a stuffed pig at the 25-second mark, as the second-swimmer at 40-seconds, Caesar at 45-seconds and the victim of both the Gatorade ...
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Hot Pirates get out to early lead over Cubs
Pittsburgh Pirates ' current hot stretch. Jackson looks to help Chicago avoid a fourth consecutive defeat as he faces surging Pittsburgh on Thursday at PNC Park. The Cubs (18-27) are enduring another mediocre season overall, though their starters have been an unexpected strength with a 3.36 ERA that ranks fourth in the ...
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Jaffe Indians riding high as Francona returns to Fenway Park
Nick Swisher, one of several key offseason additions, has a career-best .875 OPS entering the weekend series in Boston. (Jason Miller/Getty Images) On Thursday night, Terry Francona will do something that he hasn’t done since the end of the 2011 season: manage in Fenway Park. The most successful manager in Red Sox history returns as the pilot of the Indians, who after four straight years ...
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Top Orioles prospect Gausman to debut tonight
Kevin Gausman is debuting Thursday night. (AP) In what has already been a great season for young starting pitching, the Orioles hope that Kevin Gausman can replicate the success of Cardinals rookie Shelby Miller and sophomores Matt Harvey, Patrick Corbin and Matt Moore. Gausman, who was the fourth overall pick in last year’s amateur draft out of Louisiana State University, will make his ...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
After ten years and seven movies totaling nearly 20 hours of running length, the Harry Potter franchise/saga is finally coming to an end with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, which covers the second half of J.K. Ro ... ...
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Rival GM Mattingly is trying to get himself fired
07:10 AM ET 05.23 | Don Mattingly peeled a little paint before Wednesday's game, ripping into the team that has him on unsettled ground. Either Mattingly spoke with the blessing of general manager Ned Colletti, team president Stan Kasten and the club's new ownership, or his words amounted to an angry, desperate stand from a man who knows he soon might lose his job. One rival GM said it ...
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Red Sox join Indians in top 10
John Farrell , both became managers of clubs that won fewer than 70 games last season. This weekend the two men -- Francona as skipper of the Indians and Farrell in the dugout for the Red Sox -- square off against each other for the first time in Boston, where they once helped the Sox to a World Series title. Francona, who managed in Boston from 2004-11, returns to Fenway Park for the first time ...
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Alvarez shows improvement at third base
Email PITTSBURGH -- Pedro Alvarez may hear the chatter, but he's "confident in his glove," anyway. Alvarez's play in the field has been criticized in the past, but Wednesday night, he made three great stops on hard hit groundballs to his left. And while the Pirates did make two errors in their 1-0 win, manager Clint Hurdle said they probably saved five hits with stellar ...
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Veterans bring winning attitude to Pirates
Email PITTSBURGH -- Homegrown Pirates haven't experienced postseason baseball or long-term success over the course of the 162-game grind that is a Major League season. But a few veterans on the team have, and it's rubbing off in the clubhouse. "I know that's part of the reason they were calling me over to this ballclub," third baseman Brandon Inge said. "I've ...
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New film to explore journey of pitchers from India
Dinesh Patel (left) and Rinku Singh were signed by the Pirates in 2008 after being discovered on an Indian reality show. (Getty) PHOENIX -- "Million Dollar Arm" is the next big baseball movie, it and began shooting this month in Mumbai, India. Slated to be released next spring, the Disney film is the story of how an entrepreneurial American sports-marketing agent created a reality show ...
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