Pin ItemailprintIt was almost mathematically impossible, but the Boston Red Sox managed to pull off one of the worst collapses in baseball history last night. The Baltimore Orioles came from behind to knock the Red Sox, who were once a sure thing, out of the playoffs. The Tampa Bay Rays and St. Louis Cardinals are [...]
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John Mayberry Jr. is looking for love in all the wrong places. It seems the Philadelphia Phillies outfielder is attracted to actress Antoinette Nikprelaj, who played a sexy mermaid in the latest “Pirates of the Caribbean” film. Mayberry, 27, is taking a rather unusual route to try and snare his beautiful mermaid, however. Rather than call Nikprelaj [...]
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Second baseman Roberto Alomar, pitcher Bert Blyleven, and GM Pat Gillick were all inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown yesterday. Alomar won a record 10 Gold Gloves at second base, was a 12-time All-Star, and had a career .300 batting average. Unfortunately, the former Toronto Blue Jay and Baltimore Oriole will also [...]
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Lenny Dykstra certainly seems to be up a creek, as the former baseball star was handcuffed in court yesterday and locked up. His bail was set at $500,000 after the District Attorney hit him with a stunning 25 criminal charges. Dykstra, 48, was taken into custody in Los Angeles County Superior Court at the end [...]
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Brian Kingrey is getting ready to bank some serious coin. The 25-year-old gamer from Hammond, Louisiana earned himself a check for $1 million by becoming the first person to pitch a perfect game in the MLB 2K11 video game from 2K Sports. 2K had previously announced the contest earlier this year, stating that the competition [...]
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The Cliff Lee lottery is over and the prized pitcher has rejoined the Philadelphia Phillies, brushing aside offers from both the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers. Lee helped guide the Rangers to the World Series this year and was pursued aggressively by the Yankees. Instead, Lee chose to return to the club where spent [...]
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The San Francisco Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night in Game 6 of the 2010 NLCS to win the NL pennant and advance to the World Series, where they will face the Texas Rangers. Juan Uribe hit a tiebreaking homer off Ryan Madson with two outs in the eighth inning to give the [...]
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The Texas Rangers have done it. On Friday night, they defeated the New York Yankees to clinch their first pennant and advance to the World Series for the first time in franchise history. Fireworks and confetti filled the sky and a flag declaring that the Rangers were the new AL champions was raised high above [...]
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Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said in a press conference last week that he uses “Nature Boy” Ric Flair‘s catch phrases to motivate his team – “To BE the best, you’ve got to BEAT the best.” Somehow, though, I don’t think Manuel quite gets Flair’s reference to Space Mountain. Flair often compares himself to the [...]
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Roy Halladay has thrown the second post-season no-hitter in baseball history to help the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 in his first post-season start. The New York Yankees’ Don Larsen threw the only other post-season no-hitter, which was also a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers in game 5 of the 1956 World [...]
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Atlanta Braves left fielder Matt Diaz may have done a crazed Philadelphia Phillies fan a favor when he tripped the trespasser on the ball field last night. In fact, Diaz says he had the best interests of the costume-wearing field-stormer in mind when he swept the fan’s leg during the seventh inning of a his [...]
The party is over for Stephen Strasburg. The rookie Washington Nationals pitcher has a torn elbow ligament and will probably have to undergo Tommy John surgery, effectively ending his rookie season. Nationals GM Mike Rizzo says that an MRI on his elbow shows a “significant tear.” If Strasburg needs to have the surgery, and odds [...]
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