twitter.com - 10/15/2009
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This date in 1981 Rick Monday hit a 9th inning homer in Game 5 of the LCS against the Expos that propelled us to win 2-1 and the NL pennant about 14 hours ago from txt In the 1981 LCS we were down 2-1 to Montreal and won the next two games in a best-of-five series. about 14 hours ago from txt In ...
bizofbaseball.com - 10/16/2009
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bizofbaseball.com —
Coming off a strong League Division Series (LDS)
that led to record-breaking ratings for TBS , the...
network began its exclusive coverage of the National League Championship Series (NLCS) with nearly 7 millions viewers for Gam e #1 between the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles ...
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Game 1 of 2009 NLCS Ratings Up for TBS
bizofbaseball.com - 10/16/2009
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bizofbaseball.com —
With Game 1 of the 2009 NLCS in
the books, there are some striking similarities to Game...
1 from 2008 Before Friday’s slate of LCS games get underway, The Biz of Baseball has been looking at attendance over the postseason, with a comprehensive look at the LDS this past week. As ...
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Game 1 of 2009 and 2008 NLCS Sees Many Similarities
wezen-ball.com - 10/22/2009
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So the Phillies are going to the World
Series for the second year in a row. Congratulations...
to them. They've played very, very well in the last month-and-a-half and are more than deserving of their chance to defend their title. They breezed through the NLCS against the Dodgers and will now ...
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Dodgers-Yankees: the World Series that was and that ...
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Playoff Baseball
*touch* 'em all —
... said a few words into a microphone. He thanked "the best fans in baseball." He finished up his speech by saying, "When you lay your head down on the pillow tonight, say a prayer for Tommy and the ...
Playoff Diary: Kyle Kendrick, Barista
The Fightins —
... team win. Kendrick actually had an okay year in the minors — still needs to work on that K:BB ratio — and when he was called up he wasn’t too shabby, either, so hopefully he’ll be back in the majors eventually and some other former Rookie of the Year fifth-place finisher will be fetching coffee. (Full credit to Jason Weitzel at Beerleaguer for noticing this.)
• Another day, another chance to bash Tommy Lasorda. He reminded us all on his Twitter account that he hates the Phillie Phanatic. This was pre-game; then he had to ...
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Balanced Dodgers set for Phillies rematch —
NY Post: Sports 10/15/2009
LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers were asked over and over yesterday how much they have changed since the Phillies rushed them out of the NLCS in just five games last year.
The answer was pretty much uniform: Manny being Manny is now a bonus, not a neces...
Dodgers can't recover from Phils' homers —
Major League Baseball News 10/16/2009
Carlos Ruiz keyed a five-run fifth inning off Clayton Kershaw with a three-run homer and, after the Dodgers pulled to within a run, reliever George Sherrill allowed a three-run blast in the eighth as the Dodgers absorbed an 8-6 loss in Game 1 of the ...