Surging Athletics beat slumping Indians 8-4
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CLEVELAND (AP) — After consecutive shutouts, the Oakland Athletics’ pitching staff was OK with a little offensive outburst from their teammates.

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Bruce Chen throws gem as Royals top Tigers 1-0
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Royals proved Wednesday night just how fickle baseball can be.

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Game 129 Overflow Thread

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Game 129 Overflow Thread

Chen dealing, up 1-0

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Braves Fall To San Diego 8-2 In Series Finale

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SAN DIEGO, CA - AUGUST 29: Eric Stults #53 of the San Diego Padres pitches during the third inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves at Petco Park on August 29, 2012 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images)

For the second time in just over two weeks, Padres left-hander Eric Stults stymied the Braves' bats en route to a San Diego victory.

This time, defensive miscues Atlanta helped the Padres cruise to an 8-2 series clinching win on Wednesday night.

Stults scattered five hits and one run over six innings while walking none and striking out five. He pounded the strike zone all afternoon, throwing 61 of his 90 pitches for strikes. Stults also had 12 swing and misses, including five on his changeup.

Things held scoreless until the fourth inning, when San Diego finally got to struggling Braves starter Tommy Hanson. Hanson walked Yasmani Grandal to start the frame, then allowed a single to Mark Kotsay two batters later that advanced Grandal to third.

With runners on first and third, Logan Forsythe doubled to left, scoring Grandal to make it a 1-0 game. Cameron Maybin followed with a groundout to third that plated Kotsay, upping San Diego's advantage to 2-0.

Dan Uggla singled to start the top of the fifth, and advanced to third thanks to an errant force attempt. Michael Bourn brought in Uggla with a sacrifice fly.

Unfortunately, The #Barves made an appearance in the fifth inning. A pop up to third base by Everth Cabrera hit the ground as Chipper Jones and Janish bumped into each other trying to make the catch. Will Venable followed with a bunt that Hanson tried and failed to barehand.

Venable stole second, and Chase Headley followed with a single to right field. Jason Heyward's throw home appeared to be on line, but it was cut off for some reason. That allowed both Cabrera and Venable to score and make it 4-1.

Hanson left two batters later, finishing with a line of 4.2 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 3 K.

San Diego blew things open in the eighth inning with a combined four runs off of Chad Durbin and Jonny Venters to make it an 8-1 game.

David Ross homered in the ninth off of Brad Brach making it an 8-2 game, but that was as close as the Braves got.

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New owners watch Headley, Padres beat Braves 8-2
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres finally have things sorted out in the owner’s box and on the field.

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Harpers homers leads Nationals past Marlins 8-4
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MIAMI (AP) — Bryce Harper homered twice for the first time in his career and the first-place Washington Nationals snapped a five-game losing streak by beating the Miami Marlins 8-4 Wednesday night.

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Longoria homers twice to help Rays top Rangers
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Evan Longoria homered twice, Tampa Bay roughed up Matt Harrison and the Rays beat the Texas Rangers 8-4 Wednesday night to snap a four-game losing streak.

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White Sox pound Saunders in 8-1 win over Orioles
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BALTIMORE (AP) — White Sox rookie Dylan Axelrod took a three-hitter into the eighth inning and Chicago spoiled the Baltimore debut of Joe Saunders, scoring seven runs off the left-hander in an 8-1 victory over the Orioles on Wednesday night.

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Another look at Ron Guidrys Hall of Fame case

I recently read Harvey Araton’s 2012 book, Driving Mr. Yogi. While the book focuses primarily on the friendship between New York Yankee greats Yogi Berra and Ron Guidry, it stirred up a question for me on why Guidry is not in the Hall of Fame. In the book, Berra (who was enshrined in 1972) offers [...]

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Alvarez stays hot, Pirates top Cardinals 5-0
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pedro Alvarez stayed hot, blasting his 26th homer of the season and driving in three runs as the Pittsburgh Pirates rolled to a 5-0 victory over St. Louis on Wednesday night.

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