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Carlos Ruiz gained a new nickname with his post-season play. There’s even a hoodie you can purchase with Señor Octubre on the front!
It took Ruiz a long time to make the majors; he’s 30 years old in his fourth season. He draws walks, hits doubles, and really shines in the post season with [...]
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October 19, 2009
Phillies look for home success with Cliff Lee on moundAfter blowing out the Dodgers in game three the Phillies hope to carry over the hot bats into Monday night's game four. Leading the NLCS two games to one the Phillies are now set up to clinch their second straight trip to the World Series on their home field at Citizens Bank Park. Doing that will still be difficult though...
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October 19, 2009
Randy Wolf walks Carlos Ruiz with two out in the fifth. Despite J.A. Happ warming in the pen, Charlie Manuel allows Joe Blanton to hit trailing by one run.
Update: Blanton grounds into a force play to end the inning. Dodgers lead 3-2 after five innings.
Via SportingNews.com
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October 20, 2009
PHILADELPHIA — A baseball lifetime ago, Jimmy Rollins was sitting in the visitors' clubhouse in St. Louis talking about what his Phillies needed.
This was long before Rollins delivered the two-out, game-winning double Monday night, the extra-base hit that lifted his Phillies to a 5-4 victory over the Dodgers and put them a win away from the opportunity to defend their...
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October 20, 2009
Was there ever a doubt? The Phillies are on the brink of the World Series after Jimmy Rollins' walk-off in the ninth clinches a 5-4 victory over the Dodgers in Game 4. This is what title teams do, Danny Knobler says.
Via With Leather
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October 19, 2009
SAINT ANDREW’S NET is With Leather’s daily link dump. It’s still in Vegas, and it still has 137 unread emails.
Brad Lidge is not a big Chan Ho Park fan.
The 700 Level.
Animated girls illustrating the baseball teams in the playoffs….
Gunaxin.
Leave it to the American prison system to develop a better use for tennis balls [...]
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October 20, 2009
They were one out from defeat. A moment later, Jimmy Rollins put the Fightin' Phils within one win of the World Series.
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October 20, 2009
NLCS
The Phillies were down to their last out when Jimmy Rollins smoked a two-run double with two outs in the ninth to beat the Dodgers 5-4. Dodgers closer Jonathan Broxton allowed a one-out walk and hit a batter to set up Rollins' heroics.
Why the Phillies should be confident: They're up 3-1 and have the hottest hitter in the postseason, Ryan Howard, on their side...
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October 19, 2009
I sat upstairs in rightfield (on the foul territory side of the foul pole last night) for the Phillies-Dodgers game. To paraphrase Keith Jackson, "It was a wonderful autumn evening for football, I mean, baseball." As I said to a ticket taker as my son and I walked into the stadium, "This is the baseball life we chose, living in the Mid-Atlantic region."Most...
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October 19, 2009
Links for Monday...
Slate's Craig Fehrman writes about "the sports media's unique mindset toward [online] aggregators" and how MLBTR fits in.
On his MLB.com blog, Phillies reliever Scott Eyre suggests he and catcher Paul Bako are reconsidering retirement because they're having so much fun.
Dodgers GM Ned Colletti told CBSSports.com&...
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October 18, 2009
Cliff Lee tries to continue his magnificent postseason this evening, as the National League Championship Series shifts to Philadelphia for Game 3 between the Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers at Citizens Bank Park
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October 18, 2009
The Dodgers are going with Hiroki Kuroda against Cliff Lee of the Phillies. Kuroda did not pitch in the first round of the playoffs due to injury so the Dodgers probably just want five good innings out of him. He started 1 game against the Phillies this season and he was 0-0 with a 0.00 [...]
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