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Comment: One-game playoff cheapens 162-game season
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 9 months ago
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These are golden times for Bay Area baseball, with the A's and Giants set to open divisional playoff series this weekend. The odd thing is, with baseball's new playoff format, the teams (not including wild cards) that finished with lower seeds open
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Extra wild card berths adding vitality to September baseball
Missouri City :: TX :: USA | 9 months ago
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Just like they hate the designated hitter, interleague play, instant replay, realignment and the price of a ballpark hot dog...Consider them longshots, underdogs, dubious teams that creep into the postseason and occasionally get hot enough to knock
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MLB Power Rankings: Wild finish in AL
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
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Yankees ride hot streak into top-5, but Orioles and Oakland are lurking No team has been able to knock Nationals, Reds and Rangers from top three, but Giants make big leap from No...Monday, September 24, 2012, 2:09 PM Corey Sipkin/New York Daily
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MLB News and Notes
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
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The Cardinals were up 3-2 at that point so as quickly as the elated emoticon swept over Chavez Ravine, it was taken away with worry headed into the bottom of the 9th. Several clutch hits later, and the fans were back on their feet, reaching for the
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San Francisco Giants (83-62) at Arizona Diamondbacks (71-74), 4:10 p.m. (ET)
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
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Vogelsong will try to begin a round out to form on Sunday when the Giants take aim at a three-game sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The 35-year-old Vogelsong has struggled to a 2-3 mark over his last six starts with a 9.57 earned run average,
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Dodgers Pull Out Win Over Cardinals With 2-Run 9th
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
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Luis Cruz came up with his second clutch hit in two nights, a tying two-out RBI double in the ninth inning, and pinch-hitter Juan Rivera followed with a run-scoring single to lift the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-3 victory over the St.
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Extra Berth Puts the Wild in Baseball's Wild-Card Races
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
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Yankees That is what the Philadelphia Phillies did on July 31 when they traded away Hunter Pence and Shane Victorino in separate deadline deals. Despite that, the Phillies were four games back in the National League wild-card standings entering
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Old-school rage returns to NASCAR racing at Bristol
Temecula :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
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Tony Stewart, upset at Matt Kenseth after they wrecked, showed his anger when Kenseth passed under caution by throwing his helmet with both hands into the front grill of Kenseth's Ford. That passion and emotion that racing fans seem to enjoy was
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TV Tuesday: America's Got Talent
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | 10 months ago
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Tonight's two-hour America's Got Talent is the first of two semifinals, and it comes on the heels of last week's "wild card show," which was all about second chances. And, if we're to believe Howie Mandel and Howard Stern -- not to mention Rolling
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Williams sisters get wild card for US Open doubles
Brussels :: Belgium | 10 months ago
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Open doubles draw Friday, giving them a chance to play for their 14th career Grand Slam title. The Williams sisters won Wimbledon, then followed with a gold medal at the London Olympics and will now try for their first U.S...Also receiving a wild
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