 American League Game Capsules
2008-10-14 12:58:00 |
| Boston, MA (Sports Network) - B.J. Upton and Rocco Baldelli each hit a three- run homer as Tampa Bay crushed Boston, 9-1, in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series at Fenway Park. Evan Longoria and Carlos Pena also went deep for the Rays, who took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series with the four-homer attack. The suddenly high-powered Tampa Bay bats have slammed seven homers in the last two contests. Matt Garza (1-1) earned the win by going six-plus innings and scattering six hits and allowing the one run, with five strikeouts and three walks. Jacoby Ellsbury knocked in the lone run for the Red Sox, who have dropped the last two games in the set, including a marathon 9-8, 11-inning defeat Saturday night. Dustin Pedroia and Mark Kotsay each collected two hits in the loss. Jon Lester (1-1) was shelled for eight hits and five runs -- four earned -- over 5 2/3 innings. The left-hander fanned seven and walked two but surrendered a pair of home runs. Game 4 is scheduled for Tuesday night, again at Fenway Park. Boston's Tim Wakefield and the Rays' Andy Sonnanstine are scheduled to take the mound. |
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Homer-happy Rays rout Red Sox to grab ALCS lead
2008-10-14 02:36:00 |
| Boston, MA (Sports Network) - B.J. Upton and Rocco Baldelli each hit a three- run homer as Tampa Bay crushed Boston, 9-1, in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series at Fenway Park. |
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Eighth-inning HRs by Victorino, Stairs rally Phils past Dodgers
2008-10-14 01:35:00 |
| Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Shane Victorino stared into the Dodgers dugout after blasting his game-tying two-run homer in the eighth, then pinch- hitter Matt Stairs glared into the Los Angeles night to follow his towering go-ahead two-run shot moments later, as Philadelphia rallied to take a 7-5 win and move within one victory of its first World Series appearance since 1993. |
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National League Game Capsules
2008-10-14 01:03:00 |
| Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Shane Victorino stared into the Dodgers dugout after blasting his game-tying two-run homer in the eighth, then pinch- hitter Matt Stairs glared into the Los Angeles night to follow his towering go-ahead two-run shot moments later, as Philadelphia rallied to take a 7-5 win and move within one victory of its first World Series appearance since 1993. Victorino, one of seven players and coaches fined for their roles in the bean war that began with Phillies starter Brett Myers throwing behind Manny Ramirez in Game 2 and reached a crescendo when Hiroki Kuroda just missed Victorino's head in a retaliation attempt in Los Angeles' 7-2 victory on Sunday, made the final statement in the fourth game of the National League Championship Series. The Phillies center fielder, playing with a heavy heart after his grandmother's death last Friday, hit a down-and-in Cory Wade (0-1) offering just over the top of the right-field wall to tie the game at 5-5. The hit scored Ryan Howard, who led off the inning with a single off Hong-Chih Kuo. Stairs soon followed with an even bigger blow, the type of hit general manager Pat Gillick envisioned when he shipped promising minor- league southpaw Fabio Castro to Toronto for the veteran left-handed slugger as the season turned the page to September. Jonathan Broxton had not allowed a home run since July 2006 and had allowed just one earned run over the last month-plus, including the postseason, before falling behind Stairs 3-1. Broxton threw a 95-mph straight fastball that Stairs was waiting for, and it ended up in a two-run moon shot to right that scored Carlos Ruiz, who had singled with two outs. The power onslaught made a winner of Ryan Madson (1-0), who gave up just one hit and one walk in 1 2/3 effective frames. Brad Lidge come on for a rare four-out save to put the Phillies up 3-1 in the best-of-seven series. |
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Indians DH Hafner to undergo shoulder surgery
2008-10-13 19:53:00 |
| Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) - Indians designated hitter Travis Hafner will undergo arthroscopic surgery on Tuesday on his right shoulder, which hampered him for the entire 2008 season. |
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Players, coaches fined for Phillies-Dodgers flare-up
2008-10-13 19:04:00 |
| New York, NY (Sports Network) - Major League Baseball fined four players and three coaches who were involved in a temper flare-up during the third inning of Sunday's Game 3 of the National League Championship Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and Dodgers. |
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Pujols undergoes elbow surgery
2008-10-13 17:43:00 |
| St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) - St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols underwent surgery on his right elbow earlier Monday in a procedure that included decompression and transposition of the ulnar nerve. |
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Royals round out coaching staff
2008-10-13 17:14:00 |
| Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) - The Kansas City Royals filled out their six-person coaching staff on Monday, naming Kevin Seitzer hitting coach and former Toronto skipper John Gibbons bench coach. |
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Tempers flare in Game 3 of NLCS
2008-10-13 01:33:00 |
| Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Tempers flared and the benches emptied in the third inning of Sunday's Game 3 of the National League Championship Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and Dodgers. |
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Dodgers fight their way back into series with win over Phillies
2008-10-13 01:11:00 |
| Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Blake DeWitt's three-run triple highlighted a five-run first inning, and Hiroki Kuroda threw six-plus strong innings as the Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-2, in a fiery Game 3 of the National League Championship Series. |
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