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Sunday, October 16th, 2005
The Houston Astros defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 today to take a 3 games to 1 lead in the National League Championship Series. While today's win was huge, the Astros are still waiting for their most difficult victory yet over the resilient Cardinals.
In last season's NLCS, Houston went to ...
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
The Los Angeles Angels were robbed of their chance to continue into extra innings of game two of the American League Championship Series tonight. It was the bottom of the ninth, two on and two out. Kelvim Escobar pitches strike three to A.J. Pierzynski. Pierzynski swings and misses, which should ...
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
Wow. I'm impressed. I wrote yesterday that I thought the Angels might struggle to keep tonight's game with the Chicago White Sox close, given how tired the team must be and how depleted the pitching staff is. To my very pleasant surprise, the Angels were able to nip the White ...
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Monday, October 10th, 2005
The Los Angeles Angels eliminated the New York Yankees from Major League Baseball's postseason this evening, and I must admit I am quite happy about it. Not only are the Angels one of my newly adopted hometown teams, but there are very few teams I root harder against than the ...
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
We are at least one game into each postseason series, and I think we are already seeing some trends. In the American League, it is starting to look like the Red Sox are on their way out. Though the same was said of them last season when they fell behind ...
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
A recent study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine claims that Boston-area emergency rooms saw fewer patients when the Red Sox were winning in last year's baseball playoffs. Specifically, the games that attracted the largest television viewership (e.g., the last few games in the Yankees series and all of ...
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