Padres beat D-backs 5-4 for 7th straight win
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PHOENIX (AP) — Edinson Volquez pitched seven effective innings and the San Diego Padres extended their winning streak to a season-high seven games with a 5-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.

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30-YOC Top Ten Lists Top Ten Candidates For A
Statue At Marlins Park

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?30-YOC Top Ten Lists? ? Top Ten Candidates For A Statue At Marlins Park Probably due to my love of their history, I keep looking at images of the new statues being unveiled at Camden Park in Baltimore. The Orioles franchise … Continue reading →

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The Pittsburgh Pirates place Chad Qualls on the
D.L.

post from Pittsburgh Pirates MLB News - Pirates Baseball Blog on 26 August 2012 07:31:19 PM. © Pittsburgh Pirates MLB News - Pirates Baseball Blog

The Pirates have placed 34-year old righty reliever Chad Qualls on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to August 25th due to a toe injury. Qualls has pitched in 9 games (0 starts) for the Pirates so far this year and he is 0-0 with a 7.04 ERA and a 1.17 WHIP. He has [...]

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Braves Are in Good Shape

post from Atlanta Baseball Talk on 26 August 2012 07:28:37 PM. © Atlanta Baseball Talk

The Braves are in fine shape as we approach the final days of August and in to September. The odds of yet another September collapse are slim, as they were last season. This team looks different, though, than last year’s…[...]

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Boring, Messy Royals Drop to Boston 8 - 6

post from Royals Review on 26 August 2012 07:01:30 PM. © Royals Review

August 26, 2012; Boston, MA, USA; Boston Red Sox shortstop Mike Aviles (3) reacts during the seventh inning against the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-US PRESSWIRE

I fell asleep late in the game this afternoon. It was sometime around the sixth inning. After Alcides Escobar's first error but before his second error. While aslumber, I drifted in and out of consciousness. I would come back to only to find that the Royals had ceded more runs. Then I'd start to find that the Royals had closed the gap a bit.

At one point, Lorenzo Cain lost a ball in the sky and had it land two feet from him in shallow center field as he looked frantically around for the diving ball. It was a classic Royals play, recalling images of Michael Tucker, Chip Ambres, and Ken Harvey. It also may not have happened. Whether it did or did not happen really isn't that important, unless of course you actually want to know what happened in this game. What this really means amidst the two Alcides Escobar errors on routine grounders and a Tony Abreu hesitation and ensuing lackadaisical sidearmed throw on a grounder that led to a run scoring as the second out of the seventh was not recorded on a routine play is this: these Royals are really not far removed from the nightmarish Royals of yore. If that Lorenzo Cain play did happen, then that's horrifying. If it didn't, it means that the abysmal play of the Royals has permeated my subconscious and haunts me in my dreams.

The Royals held a 4 -2 lead briefly from the top of the fourth until the bottom of the fifth when Will Smith yielded two runs on a Pedro Ciriaco solo shot and a James Loney RBI single. He was also bailed out in that inning by a blown call at first as Dustin Pedroia beat out a throw on what should have been an infield single, especially given the fact that not only was the throw not in time, but Eric Hosmer pulled his foot off the bag to catch it. Bobby Valentine was tossed for being correct, and Smith got out of the inning one out sooner than he should have.

Having yielded the tying runs in the inning before, Smith was allowed to pitch to two Red Sox in the bottom of the sixth, letting them both reach (Mauro Gomez reaching first on an Escobar error), and having one of them come around to score by way of a Jacoby Ellsbury single. The run was unearned but the lead was Boston's. Boston would add three runs from that point, thanks in large part to the defense of the Royals, and the two Royals runs that would cross the plate in the top of the eighth on a Hosmer sac fly and a Tony Abreu RBI single would prove to be an insufficient counter-attack and the Royals would ultimately waste Lorenzo Cain's Monster three-run dong-hanging in the fourth.

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Lucas Harrell Deserved Better, Astros Drop Series
To Mets

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NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 26: Jose Altuve #27 of the Houston Astros celebrates his ninth inning run against the New York Mets with teammate Brett Wallace #29 at Citi Field on August 26, 2012 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

In arguably his best start of the season, Lucas Harrell didn't get beat, but the Astros sure lost this game. Once again, they were shut down by the Mets pitching and the team just couldn't get anything going offensively.

Of course, the Mets were in no better circumstances against Harrell's arsenal of pitches. The right-hander kept the Mets off-balance for two hits in seven innings of work. One of those just happened to be a solo home run from Ike Davis, who appears to be back from that bout of the wasting sickness or whatever kept him out earlier this year.

Harrell has only struck out less than five batters twice in his last 12 starts. He's striking out batters at a rate of 8.5 per nine innings over that stretch while walking just 3.7 per nine. The homer to Davis was just the third he's given up in over 75 innings.

Which is to say he's been very good, and Houston hasn't really rewarded him with wins. He'll have the distinction as being the only Houston pitcher to top 10 wins this season (probably), but games like this one should have helped get him closer to 15 wins by end of the year. That won't happen now, and it's a shame, because he's been the best pitcher Houston's had in the past few months.

It didn't work Sunday in New York, but that's becoming a familiar theme this season. Don't worry, though, I'm totally sure Houston will rebound offensively next week against the Giants. They don't have any pitching, do they?

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Rogers effective as Brewers beat Pirates 7-0
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carlos Gomez and Aramis Ramirez homered off Erik Bedard, leading Mark Rogers and the Milwaukee Brewers over the wobbling Pittsburgh Pirates 7-0 on Sunday.

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Holliday powers Cardinals past Reds 8-2 (Yahoo!
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Matt Holliday had four hits and four RBIs, Adam Wainwright won his fifth consecutive start and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-2 on Sunday.

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Rod Carew 2003 Topps Gallery

Rod Carew 2003 Topps Gallery One of the many reasons that I like to collect baseball cards that feature Rod Carew is that I really like the Twins and Angels uniforms of the 1970′s and 1980′s. The colors of these … Continue reading →

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Granderson helps Yankees beat Indians 4-2 (Yahoo!
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Curtis Granderson hit his 200th career homer as the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 4-2 Sunday.

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