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| Webb to miss next start for Diamondbacks |
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04/08/2009 |
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| s roughed up for six runs on six hits -- two of those homers -- and a pair of walks over four innings while battling the ailment. According to Arizona's Web site, the 29-year-old righty felt better after playing catch on Tuesday, but the stiffness in his shoulder returned on Wednesday. Yusmeiro Petit will start in Webb's place on Saturday versus the Los Angeles Dodgers. Webb, the 2006 National League Cy Young Award winner, led the league with 22 wins a season ago and posted a 3.30 earned run average in 34 starts. |
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| Dodgers continue series in San Diego |
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04/08/2009 |
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| (BettingExpress) - The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres resume what's been an evenly-played four-game season-opening series so far when the two National League West members square off again tonight at Petco Park. The reigning division champion Dodgers took Monday's lid-lifter by a 4-1 count, but the Padres evened things up with a 4-2 decision last night. San Diego scored three times in the bottom of the sixth inning to erase a 2-1 deficit, with Chase Headley's two-RBI double plating the go-ahead runs. Kev |
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| Padres rally to down Dodgers |
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04/08/2009 |
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| San Diego, CA (BettingExpress) - Chase Headley hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the sixth inning, as the San Diego Padres picked up their first win of the season with a 4-2 decision over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Chris Young (1-0) allowed two runs on five hits and a pair of walks in a six- inning start for the Padres. He also struck out five in the win for San Diego, which dropped its season opener against the Dodgers, 4-1, on Monday. "They're a good team, and every game in the NL West is important," Headley said |
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| Wolf squares off against Padres at Petco Park |
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04/07/2009 |
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| (BettingExpress) - Randy Wolf has had plenty of experience switching uniforms in recent years. The veteran left-hander also knows a thing or two about pitching in Petco Park. Wolf's second tour of duty with the Los Angeles Dodgers begins tonight, when the ex-San Diego Padre takes the mound against his former club for the second test of a four-game season-opening series between the National League West rivals. After spending his first eight major league seasons with Philadelphia, Wolf -- a native of the Los Angele |
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| Dodgers recall INF Mientkiewicz, P Ohman |
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04/06/2009 |
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| San Diego, CA (BettingExpress) - The Los Angeles Dodgers purchased the contracts of infielder Doug Mientkiewicz and pitchers Will Ohman and Ronald Belisario, the club announced on Monday. The Dodgers also placed right-handed pitcher Claudio Vargas on the 60-day disabled list with right elbow tendinitis and outfielder Delwyn Young on the 15-day DL with a right elbow impingement. Mientkiewicz, who signed a minor league deal with LA in February, has a .271 career average with 66 home runs and 402 RBI in 1,067 games |
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| Angels, A's renew rivalry in season lid-lifter |
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04/06/2009 |
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| 03 and injecting himself with human growth hormone during the 2003 season. The five- time All-Star hit .247 with 19 doubles, 32 home runs and 96 RBI in 145 games with the Yankees this past season. Garciaparra played just 55 games last season for the Los Angeles Dodgers, mostly at shortstop, hitting .264 with eight homers and 28 runs batted in. The six-time All-Star has been hampered by injuries over the past few seasons, but has hit .314 with 226 homers and 920 RBI in his career. Cabrera will see more time at shor |
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| Manny, Dodgers begin year in San Diego |
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04/06/2009 |
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| (BettingExpress) - The defending National League West champion Los Angeles Dodgers get their 2009 season underway with a visit to San Diego's Petco Park for today's opener of a four-game series with the Padres, a team eager to put the past year behind them. The Dodgers closed with a flourish to overtake Arizona by two games for the top spot in the division, then kept the momentum going with a surprising sweep of the 97-win Chicago Cubs in last October's NL Division Series. The team's late-season success and stron |
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| Cubs, Astros start season at Minute Maid Park |
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04/06/2009 |
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| s have gone to waste. The Cubs have bowed out in the NLDS each of the previous two seasons and last won a world championship 101 years ago. Lou Piniellas ballclub recorded an NL-best 97 victories in 2008 before getting swept by Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first round of the postseason. The Cubs, whose last World Series appearance was in 1945, have won at least 85 games the previous two seasons. Chicago will hand ace Carlos Zambrano the ball on Opening Day in Houston. The fiery right-hander mad |
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| NL West foes lift the lid on season in Arizona |
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04/06/2009 |
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| turn to prominence in their 2009 campaigns, which begin when the two NL West rivals start up a three-game series this afternoon at Chase Field. The Diamondbacks nearly made a return trip to the postseason in 2008, but wound up being overtaken by the Los Angeles Dodgers for the division title. Arizona did finish with a winning mark at 82-80, which was two games behind the Dodgers for the NL West's top spot. Once again, Brandon Webb was a big reason why Arizona remained in contention all year long. The ace right-han |
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| Dodgers' Schmidt to start season on DL |
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04/05/2009 |
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| San Francisco, CA (BettingExpress) - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Jason Schmidt will start the 2009 season on the 15-day disabled list as he continues to recover from a right shoulder labrum tear. Schmidt has not pitched in a big league game since June of 2007, when he first underwent arthroscopic shoulder surgery. He made just six starts that season and was 1-4 with a 6.31 earned run average. The 36-year-old veteran also had an arthroscopic procedure last September to clean up scar tissue. He will enter the final |
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