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October 15, 2017: Justin Turner’s walk-off home run in Game 2 calls up memories of Kirk Gibson
On the night that Kirk Gibson hit his epic home run into the…
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October 17, 2017: Dominant Darvish and Dodgers push listless Cubs to the brink in NLCS
The Cubs returned to Wrigley Field for Game Three of the 2017…
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October 18, 2017: Cubs show championship swagger to stay alive in NLCS
The Cubs were playing mostly for pride in Game Four of the 2017…
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October 19, 2017: Dodgers ace Kershaw shuts down Cubs to clinch NL pennant; Hernandez wallops 3 homers
A year after rallying to beat Cleveland for their first World…
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October 24, 2017: Kershaw, Turner, Mother Nature bring the heat for Dodgers in World Series opener
The average high temperature in Los Angeles on October 24 is…
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October 29, 2017: Bregman’s walk-off single lifts Astros over Dodgers in a wild Game 5
On October 29, 2017, the World Series was tied at two games…
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March 29, 2018: Ichiro returns to the Seattle Mariners
It is not always that a star player gets to “come back” to…
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April 3, 2018: Shohei Ohtani’s home debut with Angels is a blast (and two singles)
It was Shotime! in Anaheim. Shohei Ohtani, the two-way Japanese…
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April 7, 2018: Patience at the plate is a virtue as Phillies beat Marlins, 20-1
Gabe Kapler understood that one of his first priorities in…
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April 8, 2018: Shohei Ohtani’s home pitching debut is almost perfect
The crowd in Anaheim for the Los Angeles Angels’ sixth home…
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April 9, 2018: Max Scherzer pitches a complete-game shutout, steals his first base
Yes, it was early in the season but the Washington Nationals…
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May 4, 2018: Albert Pujols joins the 3,000-hit club
Jose Alberto Pujols took the big leagues by storm when he debuted…
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May 6, 2018: Max Scherzer sets another strikeout record as Nationals win on a walk-off
“The great [pitchers] are all competitors, they can hardly…
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May 8, 2018: Seattle’s ‘Big Maple’ James Paxton throws a no-hitter on Canadian soil
James Paxton’s reputation for being calm, cool, and collected…
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May 15, 2018: Nationals’ Juan Soto homers before his major-league debut
“He has six homers, but this was actually his first. It just…
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June 2, 2018: Max Scherzer pinch hits, scores winning run in the 14th inning
It certainly felt like mid-summer to the 39,578 fans attending…
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June 22, 2018: Corbin and Nova duel, but Diamondbacks beat Pirates in extra innings
Some 24,843 showed up to see the Pittsburgh Pirates play the…
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June 24, 2018: Dodgers set home run record at Citi Field in 11-inning win over Mets
The New York Mets announced in advance that this would be a bullpen…
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June 29, 2018: Nationals’ Juan Soto sets hits record for a teenager
The Washington Nationals (41-38) had been leading the NL East…
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July 2, 2018: Rare RBIs from Rick Porcello help Red Sox take over first place for good
It had been something like feast or famine for the Boston Red…
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July 5, 2018: Nationals rally from 9-0 deficit, thanks to Trea Turner
Sean Doolittle, the Washington Nationals closer, was sitting…
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July 7, 2018: Diamondbacks set franchise scoring record in 20-5 rout of Padres
While they set some offensive records during their run to the…
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July 11, 2018: Rockies bludgeon Diamondbacks, 19-2, at Coors Field
The Arizona Diamondbacks came into the second game of a three-game…
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July 14, 2018: La Tortuga mops up for Twins
In mid-July of 2018 the Tampa Bay Rays were making their only…