Posted on 18 April 2012. Tags: Albert Pujols, angered, Game, home, Innings, Lack, Mark Trumbo, Mike Scioscia, Playing, rookie, team, time, Trumbo
It has become one of the questions surrounding the Angels as they’ve stumbled to a 4-7 start: Why isn’t Mark Trumbo playing more? The young slugger led the team with 29 home runs and 87 RBI last season and finished second in the American League Rookie of the Year voting. However, he was displaced from [...]
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Posted on 18 April 2012. Tags: home, hoping, Indians, Innings, Kansas City, lasts, list, power, strength, surge, Ubaldo Jimenez, way
The Indians came into the season believing the strength of the team would be their pitching staff. Nine games into the season that’s the way it has played out, although the work of the pitchers was somewhat overshadowed by the hitters in the Indians’ three-game weekend sweep in Kansas City. The Indians scored 32 runs [...]
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Posted on 18 April 2012. Tags: back, Bounce, Greinke, home, Looks, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Brewers, start, Zack Greinke
The NL-leading Los Angeles Dodgers found themselves on the verge of yet another victory before the Milwaukee Brewers rallied to take the opener of this three-game set. Los Angeles could be in for further disappointment with Milwaukee’s Zack Greinke scheduled to take the mound Wednesday night at Miller Park. The Dodgers (9-2), who entered Tuesday [...]
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Posted on 18 April 2012. Tags: Chris Young, Dbacks, gets, Injury, Justin Upton, Kirk Gibson, Shoulder Injury, worse, Young
PHOENIX A bad Tuesday got progressively worse for the Diamondbacks, and it had nothing to do with a last-inning loss to Pittsburgh. The D-backs started the game without right fielder Justin Upton and ended it also without center fielder Chris Young, injuries knocking out their two most productive outfielders before the season was two weeks [...]
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Posted on 18 April 2012. Tags: Another, Cards, Cards ST. LOUIS, Cincinnati Reds, delivers, Eighth, Innings, Job, Kyle Lohse, Lohse, Manager, The Cardinals
ST. LOUIS Some might not remember that Kyle Lohse led the Cardinals starting rotation in both wins and ERA last year. The way he’s pitching in 2012, a lot more folks might soon start catching on. Lohse turned in another outstanding start Tuesday, tossing seven shutout innings on just four hits in the Cardinals’ 2-1 [...]
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Posted on 18 April 2012. Tags: Andre Ethier, Around, can't, Dodgers, Kemp, League, Matt Kemp, Milwaukee Brewers, pitching, plate, Player, Rivera, the Dodgers, they
MILWAUKEE – When Matt Kemp talks about his sizzling start at the plate this year, he points to the two teammates batting behind him in the Dodgers lineup: Andre Ethier and Juan Rivera. Before the Dodgers’ game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park on Tuesday night, Kemp was asked whether pitchers can still throw [...]
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