Archive | June 19th, 2012

Braun Slips to Fourth Amongst NL Outfielders

After initially ranking among the top three in All-Star voting for National League outfielders, Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun slipped to fourth place in the latest voting update, behind Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera, who overtook him for the third spot. At time of the latest update, Braun, who started the last four All-Star games for [...]

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Elevated Pitches Lead to Lowe’s Elevated ERA

For the first few weeks of the season, it looked as if the Indians might have caught lightning in a bottle with Derek Lowe. A few weeks later. not so much. In the Indians’ 10-9 win over Cincinnati on Monday, Lowe was not involved in the decision, but he was involved in giving up plenty [...]

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Rays Hope Price Can Shut Down Harper, Nats

Tune into Sun Sports at 6:30 p.m. to watch the Tampa Bay Rays take on the Washington Nationals. The young Washington Nationals always were aware adversity would come along with their current success that has them leading the NL East. The longest-tenured National, though, may be in a drought far worse than he expected. Ryan [...]

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D-backs Go for 7th Consecutive Home Win

After struggling at home for more than a month, the Arizona Diamondbacks are finally playing well at Chase Field. The Diamondbacks can move above .500 there for the first time in almost two months with a seventh consecutive home victory Tuesday night against the Seattle Mariners. Arizona (33-34) went 21 straight innings without a run [...]

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Indians Victory Speaks Volumes

CLEVELAND — Not much can be said about the Indians 10-9 victory over the visiting Reds on Monday, except this: Whew. And maybe this: Man, did the Indians really need a win. Thats really the bottom line in the first game of a series forever billed as The Battle of Ohio. But for the Indians, [...]

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No Rush to Get Kemp, Lilly Back

The Dodgers have been without a pair of key contributors, CF Matt Kemp and LHP Ted Lilly, for a while, and though both are getting closer to rejoining the team there is still no specific timetable for their respective returns. Kemp has been on the disabled list since May 31 with a left hamstring strain, [...]

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