Cards slide continues despite Pujols HR (AP)

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Dave Bush pitched six stingy innings to bounce back from a start in which allowed four consecutive home runs, and Casey McGehee hit a two-run homer in the Milwaukee Brewers’ 3-2 victory over the suddenly sliding St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night. Albert Pujols homered for the eighth time in 14 games, leading off the [...]

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Garland leads surging Padres by Cubs 1-0 (AP)

post from MLB News Blog on 17 August 2010 11:11:22 PM. © MLB News Blog

Jon Garland pitched seven innings and Jerry Hairston Jr. scored the game’s only run and the San Diego Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 1-0 on Tuesday night. The NL-West leading Padres won for the eighth time in nine games and moved five games ahead of the second-place San Francisco Giants. Heath Bell pitched a scoreless [...]

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McCourt Bashers Are Never Wrong

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Fish Wrap - Marlins 6, Pirates 0

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Tuesday night at PNC Park the Marlins were fresh off of a "heated" team meeting that was called the previous night after they had dropped the series opener to the Pirates, and four straight overall. Only 25 people know exactly what was said or done behind the closed doors of the clubhouse during that meeting, but whatever it was proved to be effective in game two of their series against Pittsburgh.

The game got off to a good start as starters Ricky Nolasco and Zach Duke both held their opposing lineups scoreless through four innings.

The Marlins had their first chance to bust their 0-for-a-million with runners in scoring position streak in the top of the first. Gaby Sanchez doubled with two out and Dan Uggla followed with a walk, but Mike Stanton ended the inning by striking out, and the Fish remained hitless with RISP.

Ricky must have figured that if the streak was ever going to end, he'd have to end it himself. So in the top of the fifth, after Wes Helms had walked and moved to second on a groundout by Ronnie Paulino, Ricky singled to score Wes, and became the first Fish in 36 tries to get a hit with a runner in scoring position.

It turned out Ricky merely opened the floodgates. After he got the Fish on the board, Hanley and Logan both singled to load the bases, and Gaby drove in two more runs with an RBI single to right. Uggs followed with a sac fly, and in just one inning, the Marlins had racked up more hits with runners in scoring position than their last five games combined. 4-0, Fish.

In the sixth, Ricky decided to help himself out again. Uncle Wes singled, and Ricky hit a two-out double to drive in his second run of the game, and put the Fish up 5-0. That was the end of the road for Zach Duke, who has yet to win a start against the Marlins in his career.

Ricky cruised through the first five innings of the game, but ran into trouble in the sixth when he loaded up the bases with two out. Jose Tabata singled off of Ricky's pitching hand to load up the bases, but Ricky shook it off and struck out Walker to end the inning.

The trouble began again for Ricky in the seventh when he gave up consecutive singles to Jones and Alvarez to lead off the inning, and that would end his night on the mound. After six shutout frames and two big RBI hits, Ricky was done and Jose Veras came on in relief. He induced a fly ball for the first out, and a double play to end the inning.

Veras handled a scoreless eighth inning as well, and in the top of the ninth, the Marlins added a little extra insurance. With one out, Chan Ho Park hit Hanley with a pitch, and LoMo drove him in with a double to center to make it 6-0.

Clay Hensley tossed a scoreless ninth inning, and the Marlins shut out the Pirates and evened up the series at a game apiece.

Gotta love team meetings.

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Garza goes 7 scoreless, Rays rip Rangers (AP)

post from MLB News Blog on 17 August 2010 11:01:42 PM. © MLB News Blog

Matt Garza scattered five hits over seven scoreless innings for his first win since pitching a no-hitter late last month and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Texas Rangers 10-1 on Tuesday night. Garza (12-7) went 0-2 in three starts after throwing Tampa Bay’s first no-hitter in a 5-0 victory over Detroit on July 26.

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Astros 4 Mets 3 August 17, 2010

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The Mets lost another heartbreaker in the bottom of the eighth inning. Johan Santana went 8 innings but got touched for two homers by Hunter Pence. He hit a 3-run homer in the first and the game winner solo shot in the eighth. It wasn’t Santana’s finest game giving up 4 runs, but he did ... Continue Reading

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CC first in AL to 16 wins, A-Rod sits (AP)

post from MLB News Blog on 17 August 2010 10:43:22 PM. © MLB News Blog

CC Sabathia was dominant at home again and Nick Swisher had a two-run single, leading the New York Yankees to a 6-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night. Curtis Granderson homered against his former team and Robinson Cano connected from the cleanup spot for New York. Cano moved up a spot in the [...]

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Prado has 3 hits in return, Braves roll (AP)

Little-used Diory Hernandez sparked Atlanta with a pinch-hit homer, All-Star Martin Prado returned from the disabled list with three hits and Mike Minor claimed his first big league win, 10-2 over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night. Coming off their majors-best 20th victory on the final swing, the first-place Braves didn’t need any dramatics beginning [...]

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Oswalt, Polanco lead Phillies by Giants (AP)

Roy Oswalt pitched seven sharp innings, Placido Polanco had four hits and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants 9-3 on Tuesday night. The Phillies took a one-game lead over San Francisco in the NL wild-card race. The two-time NL champions entered 2 1/2 games behind Atlanta in the East.

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Sit Javy. Please.

In an earlier post, I discussed Javier Vazquez‘s recent ineffectiveness and his “dead arm.” I postulated the idea that this is the perfect opportunity to skip him once or twice through the rotation, see if his arm strength returns in September and take it from there. I fretted about the cumulative effect of having an [...]

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