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Beginning 6:30 pm MST 12/12/07
They won the suspended game 4-3, taking the World Series 4-1. It’s their first championship since 1980 and the city’s first championship in 25 years. Cole Hamels was the Series MVP.
The game ended with Brad Lidge striking out pinch hitter Eric Hinske. That put the exclamation point on Lidge’s perfect season. He saved 48 of [...]
Final Score 3-2.
This game proved the old adage that pitching is everything in a short series. Scott Kazmir of the Rays got off to a shaky start, giving up 2 runs in the first. Meanwhile the Rays did not get a hit after the fifth. The score was close, but it could have been worse. [...]
For making it to the World Series by beating the Red Sox 3-1 in Game 7 of the ALCS. Excellent preformance especially by rooking pitcher David Price who shut down the Bostonians in the 8th inning when they had the bases loaded. Talk about grace under pressure from a rookie. WOW!
Thank you, Red Sox for [...]
The Tampa Bay Rays are moving on to the ALCS, after defeating the Chicago White Sox 6-2 today and taking the ALDS 3 games to 1. They will likely face the Boston Red Sox who are leading the geographically challenged Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim–hey, I’ve heard of urban spawl but this is ridiculous–2- 0 [...]
I am rooting for whomever comes out of the Chicago-Tampa Bay playoff. Right now I’d like to see TB win. I like their worst-to-first story and their ability to come from behind in the late innings. But the White Sox winning gets Junior Griffey deeper into the post season, and that, as Mychael Urban would [...]
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