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| Morris strives for 17th victory |
MLB Baseball |
09/26/2002 |
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| s for the Cardinals, who have won 18 of their last 21 games. Garrett Stephenson tossed five scoreless innings for the win, allowing one hit with five walks and a pair of strikeouts. The Cardinals lead the season series by a 7-6 margin, including four wins in six tries at home. They are 24-18 in this matchup since the start of the 2000 campaign. The Brewers are tied with the San Diego Padres for the worst road record in the National League at 24-53, while the Cardinals bring a 49-28 home mark into this contest. |
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| Brewers turn to Neugebauer |
MLB Baseball |
09/26/2002 |
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| n is also one homer away from passing Hall of Famers Orlando Cepeda and Tony Perez for 46th place on baseball's all-time home run list. Cepeda and Perez each swatted 379 round-trippers. Houston leads the season series by a 9-8 margin, including five victories in eight tries at home. It is 36-24 in this matchup since the start of the 1999 campaign. The Brewers are tied with the San Diego Padres for the worst road record in the National League at 24-52, while the Astros bring a 46-34 home mark into this contest. |
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| Giants continue surge into playoffs |
MLB Baseball |
09/26/2002 |
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| San Francisco, CA (Sportsbooks) - The San Francisco Giants will try to continue their surge into the playoffs when they play the finale of a two-game set against the San Diego Padres tonight at Pac Bell Park. On Tuesday, Benito Santiago finished 3-for-4 with four runs batted in and Barry Bonds hit his 45th homer of the season as the Giants pounded the Padres, 12-3. Reggie Sanders added a solo homer for the Giants, while David Bell had a two-run single. The Giants moved within three games of Arizona for firs |
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| Big week for Giants starts with Padres |
MLB Baseball |
09/24/2002 |
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| into Miller Park and promptly swept the Brewers, capping the weekend with a 3-1 triumph behind ninth-inning, solo homers from Jeff Kent and Benito Santiago. In the meantime, the Dodgers were only able to win two-of-three over the weekend against the San Diego Padres, enabling the Giants to double their cushion in the wild card race. "When we started the road trip we were a game up, and we gained a game," said Sunday's starter Kirk Rueter, who tossed seven innings and surrendered one run on three hits with three |
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| Giants hope to protect wild card lead |
MLB Baseball |
09/24/2002 |
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| San Francisco, CA (Sportsbooks) - The San Francisco Giants will try to maintain their two-game lead in the NL wild card race when they play the first of a two-game series against the San Diego Padres tonight at Pac Bell Park. On Sunday, Jeff Kent and Benito Santiago hit solo homers in the ninth inning, as San Francisco kept the pressure on the Dodgers in the National League wild card race with a 3-1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. The Giants won for the fifth time in six contests and secured their first thr |
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| Likely playoff opponents meet in St. Louis |
MLB Baseball |
09/23/2002 |
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| the D'backs and yielded five runs on 10 hits in five frames. Rick Helling takes the ball this evening for Bob Brenly's crew. Helling picked up a win in his last trip to the rubber after allowing three runs on nine hits over 5 2/3 innings against the San Diego Padres. He walked two and fanned two. The victory was the veteran righthander's first since August 13 and halted his personal three-game skid. Still and all, Helling is just 1-2 this month with a less-than-impressive 6.75 earned run average. He has surrend |
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