Nova Brilliant as Leak Calls Him Playoff No. 2
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Brewers inch closer to NL Central title (AP)

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Shaun Marcum threw eight strong innings and the Milwaukee Brewers moved a step closer to the NL Central title with a 5-1 win over the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night. Marcum (13-7) allowed five hits and one run and chipped in at the plate by doubling and scoring during Milwaukee’s four-run third inning.

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Game #154

post from Purple Row on 20 September 2011 11:01:13 PM. © Purple Row

DENVER, CO - SEPTEMBER 20: Starting pitcher Jhoulys Chacin #45 of the Colorado Rockies works the second inning against the San Diego Padres at Coors Field on September 20, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)

Same old 2011 Rockies tonight. It's the bottom of the fifth inning, the Rockies are down, 1-0, and have only one hit. Yay!

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Game 155 Overflow thread

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Game 155 Overflow thread

Let the beating continue

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Braves Bounce Back, Win 4-0

post from Talking Chop on 20 September 2011 11:01:12 PM. © Talking Chop

Fredi Gonzalez is a bit on edge with Stormtroopers breathing down his neck.

After what was clearly one of the most discouraging losses the Braves have suffered this season, the team managed to bounce back tonight to beat the Fish by a score of 4-0. Prior to the game, I was thinking that someone needed to light a fire under the team and get them almost angry that they had let the wild card lead shrink to just 2.5 games. But in the limited video clips of the dugout prior to the game, it looked as though the team was looser and having more fun than in the past several outings. Maybe that is what the team needs, because it sure worked tonight.

The Braves did three fourths of their damage in the second inning against Anibal Sanchez. Alex Gonzalez belted the first pitch that he saw into left center field to put the Braves on the board. This was quite a relief after the Braves spoiled a golden opportunity in the first inning when Atlanta had two men in scoring position with no outs. After Heyward legged out a double, Bourn drove him in with a double of his own to make the score 2-0 Braves, and took third without a throw. Martin Prado then dribbled his second of three hits on the night up the middle to score Michael Bourn. Freddie Freeman added on some insurance with a solo shot to straightaway center in the top of the sixth.

Randall Delgado earned his first career win and was great in a start that very few would disagree was the biggest of his young career. Delgado got into some trouble during his five innings, but it was usually with two outs and pitched out of it each time. He finished with a line of five innings pitched, five hits, two walks, and no runs. Cristhian Martinez pitched a perfect two innings, which has become customary recently, and Anthony Varvaro had no trouble shutting the door on the Marlins in the eighth and ninth innings.

The Braves left eleven men on base tonight and hit just 2 for 12 with runners in scoring position, so some of the old habits are still present, but what matters is the Braves got a win behind some great pitching both from Delgado and the bullpen. This all occurred on a night that St Louis is currently behind against the Mets. Hopefully the Braves feel more confident, and feel as if they've stabilized themselves a bit, after such a tough one last night.

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Yanks top Rays, close in on playoff spot (AP)

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Ivan Nova pitched shutout ball into the eighth inning, Curtis Granderson drove in four runs and the New York Yankees moved within one win of a playoff berth by beating the Tampa Bay Rays 5-0 on Tuesday night. Granderson hit a three-run double and reached base four times, boosting his MVP credentials as the Yankees [...]

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Red Sox lose but stay 2 up for wild card (AP)

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Robert Andino’s three-run double in the eighth inning gave the Baltimore Orioles a 7-5 win Tuesday night and ruined a chance for the Boston Red Sox to extend their two-game lead in the AL wild-card race. Andino’s go-ahead hit came off Jonathan Papelbon, who had gone 21 games since last allowing a run on July [...]

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Angels win to aid fading playoff hopes (AP)

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Mark Trumbo hit a three-run homer, Vernon Wells added a solo shot and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Toronto Blue Jays 10-6 on Tuesday night. Trumbo went 2 for 5 with four RBIs and Erick Aybar stole home as the Angels kept their faint postseason hopes alive. Los Angeles started the night five games [...]

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Delgado helps Braves get back on track (AP)

Rookie Randall Delgado pitched five innings for his first major-league win, and the Atlanta Braves put the brakes on their recent skid by beating the Florida Marlins 4-0 Tuesday night. The Braves began the night leading St. Louis by 2 1/2 games in the NL wild-card race after blowing a ninth-inning lead to lose Monday.

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GAME 154

The Rockies are playing—at least one of them. Time for some poetry.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?