Category: World Series
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
The San Francisco Giants never seemed to be the favorite to win the World Series during last season or during their remarkable postseason run, but they found a way to get it done. Now, as spring training begins, Giants manager Bruce Bochy can reflect on winning a second title in ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2012
The Detroit Tigers fell flat on their faces in the World Series, but the team is still quite stacked and manager Jim Leyland is officially back after signing a one-year contract extension earlier this week. The veteran bench boss is confident that his team can bounce back, but he still ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
It's astonishing to think the San Francisco Giants were down 0-2 in the NLDS, having to win three straight road games in the first year of a new playoff format, and this team went on the run they did to win a World Series title. The Giants had to overcome a ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
There are only two people on Earth other than Pablo Sandoval who know what he felt like Wednesday night when he hit three home runs in Game 1 of the World Series. One of them is Albert Pujols and the other is Reggie Jackson, who says Sandoval's three-homer World Series ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
The defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals haven't missed a beat despite losing the best player in the game and their future Hall of Fame manager in the offseason. They're tied with the Dodgers atop the National League, two full games ahead of their pace from 2011.
Lance Berkman joined ...
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Some folks prescribe to the theory that if a team doesn't win a championship, that the season was a total loss. Texas Rangers pitcher Derek Holland is not one of those folks. Asked if the season was lost when the Rangers lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games, ...
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Friday, October 21st, 2011
With the World Series and the NBA lockout both a part of this week's big sports news, I guess it wasn't entirely a shock that Dirk Nowitzki could become a player in all of it. That said, I didn't really see him becoming one of the bigger stories of the ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Everybody's talking about the big bats and offensive firepower heading into the World Series. If anybody needed a reminder as to what the Texas Rangers could do, they put up a nine-run inning and 15 runs overall in clinching the American League pennant. As for the St. Louis Cardinals, they ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2011
After putting together one of the most prolific pitching rotations in Major League Baseball's recent history, the Philadelphia Phillies are the odds-on favorites to win the World Series. Adding that pitching prowess to an already potent lineup has earned them that honor.
It's getting closer and closer to the time that ...
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
The Philadelphia Phillies new top four starting pitchers have been called a lot of things in the past few days, but this is the first time I've heard them equated to The Beatles. And it came from teammate Chase Utley no less.
In case you've been living in a bunker, the ...
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