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Yunel Escobar homered during a seven-run burst in the second inning and Brett Lawrie later added a three-run shot, leading the Toronto Blue Jays over the Los Angeles Angels 11-2 Saturday. Lawrie also doubled and singled. He drove in three runs and scored three before leaving after the seventh. The Angels lost consecutive games for [...]

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On the cusp of their second straight loss, trailing 14-7 in the 9th inning Yankees manager Joe Girardi was out of options at the pitching position. So he decided to call upon his outfielder Dewayne Wise to take the bump. Now most of us our probably thinking how many hits and runs did Wise give [...]

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. A perfect storm of unfriendly constitution blew into Dodger Stadium Saturday night, whisking away a struggling offenses ability to right itself amidst the ineffective cacophony of flailing bats and battered hope. R.A. Dickey, now two starts removed from back-to-back one hitters, allowed three hits over eight scoreless innings and struck out 10 [...]

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. A perfect storm of unfriendly constitution blew into Dodger Stadium Saturday night, whisking away a struggling offenses ability to right itself amidst the ineffective cacophony of flailing bats and battered hope. R.A. Dickey, now two starts removed from back-to-back one hitters, allowed three hits over eight scoreless innings and struck out 10 [...]

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MILWAUKEE Brewers catcher George Kottaras trotted out to the mound in the middle of Friday night’s 9-3 loss to the Diamondbacks to meet his pitcher Randy Wolf, who stood on the hill noticeably exasperated, caught in the midst of one of the most wearisome stretches of his 15-year baseball career. Wolf yelled into his glove [...]

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MILWAUKEE The Milwaukee Brewers have paid homage to the Hispanic heritage one day every season since 2006, a day in which the long-time “Brewers,” for one game, become the “Cerveceros.” But on Sunday, Brewers fans will be treated to an entirely different translation. In an effort to acknowledge the multiple cultures that built the city [...]

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Coming off a Gold Glove season, Diamondbacks outfielder Gerardo Parra detailed in spring training part of the process that has made him one of baseball’s best defensive outfielders: A little red glove not much different from one a small child might use. Parra explained the practice glove, which he started using last year, forces better [...]

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In the first six games of the current 10-game road trip, the Indians struggled to score runs and, not surprisingly, lost most of the games. They lost five of the first six games on the trip, which concludes with a four-game series in Baltimore that began Thursday night with a 7-2 Indians victory.Going into the [...]

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