Grant Balfour - October 2008 |
www2.tbo.com - 10/9/2008
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MARTIN FENNELLY | The Tampa Tribune Published: October
9, 2008 ST. PETERSBURG - He talks to himself,...
even shouts to himself as he races in from the bullpen to the rescue. He's from Down Under, but Over The Top works for the man from Sydney, Australia, ...
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Like The Rays, Balfour Never Backs Down
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bugsandcranks.com - 10/7/2008
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Baseball’s Final Four has been set, and in
the end there can be only one but regardless...
of how you slice it, the 2008 major league post-season would not be happening were it not for the 2001 Minnesota Twins. Don't believe it? Do the names Ortiz, Romero, Blake and Balfour mean anything to ya?
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The 2001 Minnesota Twins -- AKA The Center of the ...
suntimes.com - 10/3/2008
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Greg Couch: First pitch, and Orlando Cabrera took
ball one. Then he decided to make the game...
his. He stepped across the plate, kicked dirt and yelled at Tampa Bay reliever Grant Balfour: Throw it over the plate.
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Cabrera leads the way
crookedpitch.com - 10/23/2008
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Minnesota Twins hurler Kevin Slowey and Tampa Bay
reliever Grant Balfour seem to have been able to...
overcome surnames that shouldn’t lend well to Major League pitchers. But, it looks like Cincinnati’s Homer Bailey isn’t so lucky. ...
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Why Good Fantasy GM’s Should Stay Away From Homer Bailey
realgmbaseball.com - 10/2/2008
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Christopher Reina/RealGM - Before a heated and confrontational
top of the 7th at bat with two outs...
and the bases loaded, Orlando Cabrera had faced Tampa Bay's Grant Balfour on four separate occasions dating back to 2004 when Cabrera was with Montreal ...
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Wiretap Archives: What Happened In Cabrera And ...
banderson.mlblogs.com - 10/3/2008
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I don't know what happened in the seventh
inning (with Orlando Cabrera and Grant Balfour exchanging words)....
I wasn't paying attention to the swings and stuff. I was getting ready in case I had to pinch-hit, so I didn't see much of it. Some guys just ...
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Brian Anderson's Postseason Blog
tampabay.com - 10/3/2008
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Reliever Grant Balfour, left, is congratulated by Game
1 starter James Shields in the dugout after Balfour’s...
eventful seventh inning.
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Rays' Balfour invites trouble and success - St. ...
news.com.au - 10/7/2008
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THIS is the Australian face at the centre
of the sporting fairytale that has taken Major League...
Baseball and American sports fans by storm. Kellyville-raised Grant Balfour was yesterday mobbed by his Tampa Bay Rays teammates after he helped the ...
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Australian Grant Balfour stars for Tampa Bay Rays | The ...
sports.espn.go.com - 10/8/2008
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2008 Season Stats SPLITS G GS CG IP
H R ER HR BB SO W L SV...
HLD BLSV WHIP ERA Season 51 0 0 58.1 28 10 10 3 24 82 6 2 4 14 1 0.89 1.54 Postseason 5 0 0 4.2 3 1 1 1 3 5 0 0 0 2 0 1.29 1.93 Career 131 1 0 151.0 119 66 66 15 82 186 12 5 4 20 3 1.33 3.93 ...
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Grant Balfour Stats, News, Photos - Tampa Bay Rays
sports.espn.go.com - 10/17/2008
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BATTING 2B: J Lowrie (1, G Balfour); M
Kotsay (3, D Wheeler) HR: D Ortiz (1, 7th...
inning off G Balfour 2 on, 2 Out); J Drew (1, 8th inning off D Wheeler 1 on, 0 Out) RBI: D Pedroia (4), D Ortiz 3 (3), J Drew 3 (3), C Crisp (1) 2-out RBI: D Pedroia, D ...
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Rays vs. Red Sox - Box Score - October 16, 2008
mlb.fanhouse.com - 10/22/2008
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With the World Series finally upon us, MLB
FanHouse "sat down" for yet another roundtable discussion to...
discuss a few of the storylines and issues in the series, as well as predict the winner. Hint: Phillies fans won't be happy. Matt Snyder: So ...
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FanHouse World Series Roundtable: We (Mostly) Like the Rays
hardballtimes.com - 10/30/2008
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The Phillies just scored in the bottom of
the sixth, and Tim McCarver called it. Now, I'm...
not a big McCarver fan (though I thought he was great when he first started in the booth; so was Joe Morgan) but I have always given him bonus points for virtually "calling" Luis Gonzalez's bloop single off ...
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McCarver’s call
mlb.fanhouse.com - 10/4/2008
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It's virtually impossible to criticize Tampa Bay for
the way it played in the first two games...
of the ALDS against the White Sox. After all the talk about a lack of postseason experience, the Rays have looked like seasoned veterans in steamrolling to ...
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The Scary Thing? Rays Can Be Even Better
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raysindex.com - 10/7/2008
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Click on above images to be taken to
full standings, box scores or schedule... THE GOOD: Andy...
Sonnanstine . Sonny versus Edwin Jackson? Game, Set, Match. Is there any doubt that Sonnanstine will be in rotation in '09 now? In the last month, ...
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[THE HANGOVER] Rays Silence Doubters Once Again With Win ...
jorgesaysno.blogspot.com - 10/20/2008
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What was Manager Joe Maddon thinking by using
Dan Wheeler, his closer, in the bottom of the...
seventh inning and into the 8th inning. Maddon's bullpen management ultimately cost the Rays the game, so why did he do it?
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Why Wheeler?
ptownpearlsofwisdom.blogspot.com - 10/25/2008
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It was a game of inches for the
Rays on Thursday. The team whose bats wake up...
first just might win this thing. The whole thing.
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Rays Gearing Up For A Game Of Inches?
beyondtheboxscore.com - 10/29/2008
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via brooksbaseball.net That's Kazmir's normalized strike zone plot
for the game. Here's his last at-bat against Pat...
Burrell: Pitches 6 and 4 were either fouls or swinging strikes with pitch 1 being a favorable called strike. Where did ...
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MLB Needs Robots to Call Strikes/Balls
draysbay.com - 10/29/2008
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Two reasons. 1) Cole Hamels spot will be
due up, expect Matt Stairs to pinch hit. From...
there Jimmy Rollins and Jayson Werth are due up. Allowing Balfour to exit before the lefties comup because... 2) In the 7th the Rays will send 6-7-8 to the ...
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Grant Balfour Needs to "Start" Game 5
