A Miserable Season From The Houston Astros Ended With A Glorious Faceplant In The DirtErik Malinowski, deadspin.com Poor Carlos Corporán, who actually had a good game for the 'stros, getting them on the board with a run-scoring single in the first and then grabbing another hit after Houston tied the game in the eighth with a three-run home run. However, a botched hit… |
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RBI leader Headley's homer overturned on replayOct 3, 2012
Adam McCalvy, MLB.com With the National League's RBI title still up for grabs, Brewers manager Ron Roenicke asked the umpires to take another look at Chase Headley's fifth-inning, two-run home run down the right-field line at Miller Park on Wednesday. |
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Reds have more trimming to do for NLDS rosterOct 3, 2012
General manager Walt Jocketty and the club will be traveling to San Francisco with 28 players to fill 25 spots on the National League Division Series roster. |
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Knowing that the second National League Wild Card is already theirs, the Cardinals took the opportunity to rest their regulars on Wednesday in the final regular-season game against the Reds. |
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Reds' Cueto gets nod in Game 1 against GiantsOct 3, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker confirmed Wednesday that right-hander Johnny Cueto will start the opener of the NL Division Series against San Francisco. |
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Cards can once again leapfrog Braves to NLDSOct 3, 2012
Jenifer Langosch, MLB.com In the byproduct of baseball's successful push for a second Wild Card team in each league, the Braves and Cardinals will jockey for that chance to the advance to the National League Division Series. |
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As No. 2 seed, Reds ready for Giants in NLDSOct 3, 2012
Mark Sheldon, MLB.com The Reds now know who they will face in the National League Division Series. It will be the Giants, with Game 1 of the best-of-five series beginning at 9:37 p.m. ET at AT&T Park in San Francisco. |
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Astros set club record for losses in final NL game |
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Stephen J. Dubner, deadspin.com In 2005, Adam Greenberg was struck in the head with a fastball in his first major-league at-bat. He's spent the last seven years trying to get back to the majors. Last week, he signed a one-day contract with the Marlins and got his second career at-bat … |
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Albert Pujols, Zack Greinke T-shirts available for discount at Missouri thrift shop (Photos)Oct 3, 2012
David Brown, yahoo.com BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. — They were princes here once. Albert Pujols finished his formative years practically next door and went to college close by, too, before winning three NL MVP awards with the St. Louis Cardinals on the other side of I-70. No, the Cards… |
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Timothy Burke, deadspin.com This is actually from last week, though provided the opportunity (and being out of town) we're running it today. This is one of the more curious spelling errors, as it's not a simple transposition of letters but the introduction of ones that don't belon… |
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David Brown, yahoo.com A season ago, the St. Louis Cardinals qualified for the playoffs as the wild card with the help of an epic collapse by the Atlanta Braves. Late on Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, the defending World Series champions backed into the postseason tou… |
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Here, for the paranoiacs and conspiracy theorists in our midst, is a brief peek behind the journalistic curtain: Sometimes those of us in the press ch... |
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