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| Indians explode for 13 runs in win over Rays |
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07/10/2008 |
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| 3 runs were a season-high allowed by Tampa Bay...Sonnanstine hadn't given up a homer since May 21 at Oakland...Blake's homer was his ninth of the season, but first at home...Thursday, the Indians claimed pitcher Bryan Bullington off waivers from the Pittsburgh Pirates and optioned him to Triple- A Buffalo. They also released former closer Joe Borowski and pitcher Rick Bauer on Thursday. Borowski recorded a career-best 45 saves last year for the American League Central champion Indians, but was not reliable this s |
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| Indians claim P Bullington off waivers, send him to minors |
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07/10/2008 |
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| Cleveland, OH (MySportsbook) - The Cleveland Indians claimed pitcher Bryan Bullington off waivers from the Pittsburgh Pirates and optioned him to Triple- A Buffalo on Thursday. Bullington was designated for assignment on July 3. The 27-year-old has pitched at Triple-A Indianapolis this season, posting a 4-6 record with a 5.52 earned run average in 15 starts. Pittsburgh selected the Ball State University product with the first overall pick in the 2002 First-Year Player Draft. Bullington appeared in just six maj |
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| Yankees, Pirates play makeup game at PNC Park |
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07/10/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The New York Yankees try for their fifth straight win this evening when they play a makeup game with the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park. The Yankees split their first two games with the Pirates, but the finale was rained out on June 26. The contest actually got underway, but was called in the top of the third inning with the Yankees leading 3-1. Mike Mussina was on the hill that night and will be there again this evening, as he tries to match Los Angeles' Joe Saunders for the American League l |
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| Astros' Matsui returns from DL |
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07/10/2008 |
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| activated from the 15-day disabled list on Wednesday after spending more than two weeks nursing a strained right hamstring. Matsui suffered the injury June 22 against Tampa Bay and was activated early Wednesday morning after Houston's game with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Matsui doubled twice and knocked in a run in Houston's 6-4 win against the Pirates on Wednesday. The 32-year-old native of Osaka, Japan is hitting .271 with a home run and 18 runs batted in through 57 games in his first season with the Astros. To m |
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| Astros escape Pittsburgh with a win after holding off Pirates |
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07/10/2008 |
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| Pittsburgh, PA (MySportsbook) - Geoff Blum hit a three-run home run, and the Houston Astros recovered from giving up a four-run lead to notch a 6-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates and avoid a three-game sweep at PNC Park. Kaz Matsui, in his first game back after being placed on the disabled list with a strained right hamstring, doubled twice and knocked in a run for the Astros, who snapped a three-game losing streak. Ty Wigginton and Michael Bourn each went 2-for-5 and scored a run. Brian Moehler (5-4) allowed |
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| Sheets set to follow CC as Brewers take on Rockies |
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07/09/2008 |
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| It is also four games behind the NL Central-leading Chicago Cubs in the standings. Sheets, meanwhile, has won six of his last seven decisions to improve to 10-2 with a 2.77 ERA in 17 starts this season. Sheets last took the hill on Friday versus the Pittsburgh Pirates at Miller Park, hurling 5 2/3 innings of one-run ball in his team's 9-1 victory. The tall right-hander, who is 4-1 in six home starts in 2008, owns a 4-3 mark and a 4.25 ERA in nine career games against Colorado. Sheets did not factor in a 6-4 loss |
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| Pirates wrap up set with Astros in Steel City |
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07/09/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Former first-round pick John Van Benschoten gets his third start of the 2008 season tonight, when the pitching-starved Pittsburgh Pirates play the Houston Astros in the finale of a three-game series at PNC Park. Van Benschoten, the eighth overall selection in the 2001 draft, began the season with the Pirates and made four appearances -- one start -- before returning to Triple-A Indianapolis in mid-May. He returned in late June to a staff that had seen starters Ian Snell and Phil Dumatrait go d |
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| Pirates activate P Snell from DL |
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07/09/2008 |
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| Pittsburgh, PA (MySportsbook) - The Pittsburgh Pirates reinstated pitcher Ian Snell from the 15-day disabled in time to start Tuesday's 4-3 win over the Houston Astros. Snell threw the first 3 2/3 innings and was lifted after a long rain delay. He allowed four hits and a run in the no-decision. The right-hander was sidelined with medial epicondylitis in his right elbow and hadn't pitched since receiving a no-decision June 22 against Toronto. Snell surrendered four runs on eight hits and four walks with two str |
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| Sabathia set to make Brewers debut versus Rockies |
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07/08/2008 |
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| il 22. Last season, Sabathia went 19-7 with a 3.21 ERA while pitching a league-high 241 innings to capture the Cy Young Award. In four career starts against Colorado, Sabathia is 0-1 with a 9.82 ERA. Milwaukee was fresh off a three-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates before suffering a 4-3 loss to the Rockies in Monday's series opener. Price Fielder hit a two-run homer, his 17th of the season, and Corey Hart ended with a pair of hits for the Brewers, who are four games behind the Cubs for the lead in the NL Cent |
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| Astros, Pirates continue set at PNC Park |
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07/08/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Right-hander Brandon Backe tries to snap a recent skid tonight when the Houston Astros visit the Pittsburgh Pirates for game two of a three-game series at PNC Park. Backe, a draft choice of the Tampa Bay Rays in 1998, improved his 2008 record to 4-5 with a 4-3 defeat of the Philadelphia Phillies on May 23 in Houston. He's won just once in six starts since, however, including a 4-3 loss to the Pirates on June 5 in Pittsburgh that dropped his career mark against them to 4-2 in nine games - six s |
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