Cheers rained down on Ryan Dempster as he walked off the mound to end the top of the eighth, and moments later, it was Derrek Lee's turn. If the Cubs are going to make a run, they'll need more of this from those two. Dempster pitched three-hit ball over eight innings, Lee homered and drove in all the runs, and the Chicago Cubs beat the surging Los Angeles Dodgers 3-0 on Tuesday night.
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Philadelphia Phillies have faced knuckballers for two games in a row and the results haven't been pretty.
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Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella went with what he had left on the bench when the game got into extra innings. The strategy worked perfectly. Left-handed pinch-hitters Kosuke Fukudome and Mike Fontenot had consecutive singles in the 10th after rookie Tyler Colvin's leadoff double and the Cubs beat Texas 5-4 on Saturday night to end the Rangers' five-game winning streak.
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ARLINGTON, Texas – The Texas Rangers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday in hopes of spurring completion of the stalled US$575 million sale of the team — and maybe clear the decks for the new owners to make pennant-chasing decisions this summer.
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AccuScore uses past performance statistics to describe how players perform under different environmental,…
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Carlos Silva is getting plenty of help from Cubs hitters to make quite a starting impression in Chicago. Given a four-run lead before even throwing a pitch, Silva worked into the sixth inning of Chicago's 5-4 interleague series-clinching victory over the Texas Rangers on Sunday. Silva became the first Cubs starter in 43 years to have a perfect record after six decisions — and the first to…
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Third baseman Aramis Ramirez is out of the Chicago Cubs' lineup again because of recurring soreness between his left thumb and index finger. Jeff Baker played third base Sunday in the series finale at Texas, and Geovany Soto was the designated hitter. Ramirez was the DH on Saturday night, when he went 0 for 5 with four strikeouts.
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Daisuke Matsuzaka took a no-hitter into the eighth inning, losing his bid for a complete game on Juan Castro's single with two outs as the Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-0 on Saturday. Boston made several outstanding defensive plays on hard-hit balls, but it was Castro's soft single over shortstop that finally fell.
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The explosive Toronto Blue Jays showed off their best display of power so far this season, but it wasn't enough to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Javier Vazquez is the latest Yankee to be injured – and while bunting, no less – but they still beat the Mets.
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