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Charlie Manuel manages 900th career win
Jim Thome knows the routine. Hit a game-ending homer, circle the bases, get mobbed by teammates. It never gets old. Thome hit a pinch home run leading off the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Philadelphia Phillies over the Tampa Bay Rays 7-6 on...
Tags: Jeff Keppinger, Michael Martinez, Citizens Bank Park, Joe Maddon, Ty Wigginton
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Derek Jeter Is Still Playing The Game The Right Way
The Hartford CourantOnce upon a time in baseball, it was easy to enjoy greatness. Today, in the shadow of performance-enhancing drugs (known as PEDs), enjoying the players who stack up awe-inspiring numbers just ain't easy. Players, rightly or wrongly, are under the...Tags: Ron Santo, Johnny Bench, Derek Jeter, Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays
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Baby, come back
Around the Baltimore metropolitan area, something is happening. It hasn't happened in many years — almost a generation, in fact. It's the end of August, the Orioles are in a pennant race, and there's a sense of possibility in the air. People are...
Tags: Baseball, Grand Prix of Baltimore, Vladimir Guerrero, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Chris Tillman
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Orioles designated hitter Jim Thome getting adjusted to new team, embracing every opportunity
MINNEAPOLIS -- If you walked into the Orioles clubhouse at Target Field at the right time this week, you might have seen the seventh-leading home-run hitter of all-time laying on the floor of the clubhouse, stretching his legs into the air with the help...
Tags: Baseball, Target Field, Jim Thome, Baltimore Orioles, Sports
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Orioles ride a big third inning to a third straight win
CLEVELAND — The Orioles have been victims of the big inning recently, when everything seemingly collapses around the starting pitcher. On Friday, the Orioles finally saw it from a different vantage point. They pounded the Cleveland Indians, 10-2,...
Tags: Baseball, American League, Derek Lowe, Detroit Tigers, Jim Thome
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Jim Thome passes Sammy Sosa for 7th on all-time home run list
Jim Thome hadn’t hit a homer in his first 11 games with the Orioles. He finally did it in the fourth inning Friday night in Cleveland. The Orioles were already up by six runs, so it was a pretty meaningless bomb. But when you are 41, have played...
Tags: Baseball, Derek Lowe, Jim Thome, Sports, Buck Showalter
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Thome remains mum on his chances of catching Griffey Jr. on home run list
CLEVELAND — Orioles designated hitter Jim Thome hasn't decided how much longer he wants to play, but he has a legitimate chance to catch an old teammate and friend on one of the most noteworthy lists in baseball history if he sticks around a little....
Tags: Baseball, New York Mets, Babe Ruth, Nick Markakis, Jim Thome
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Readers' Q&A: Paul Sullivan's Cubs mailbag
Chicago Tribune reporterWith pitching so hard to acquire why do the Cubs insist on trading established pitchers like Ryan Dempster and Matt Garza for unproven players? Is pitching the name of the game? My idea is build around a good pitching staff. -- John Romano, Springfield,...Tags: Baseball, Anthony Rizzo, Theo Epstein, Matt Garza, Nomar Garciaparra
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Some thoughts about the Jim Thome trade
The Baltimore SunOn Saturday, the Orioles dealt two minor leaguers, catcher Gabriel Lino and pitcher Kyle Simon, to the Philadelphia Phillies for likely Hall-of-Famer Jim Thome. At first blush, it’s a "why not?" trade. Thome doesn't have a high salary -- roughly...Tags: Nick Markakis, Jim Thome, Baltimore Orioles, Nolan Reimold, Philadelphia Phillies
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Orioles trade for veteran slugger Jim Thome
During the seventh-inning stretch of an otherwise brutal Orioles' beating on Saturday, the video scoreboard at Camden Yards flashed a message that drew a thunderous roar from the announced crowd of 35,335. The Orioles had just traded two minor leaguers...
Tags: Baseball, Chris Davis, Injuries and Wounds, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Jim Thome
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Mets clobber Cubs 17-1
There are probably worse things for Cubs fans than enduring a 17-1 loss to the Mets, such as incarceration, getting the gout or attending a business management seminar at the Cubs Convention. But for the announced crowd of 35,837 on a hot afternoon at...
Tags: New York Mets, Baseball, Anthony Rizzo, Chicago Cubs, Chicago Tribune
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Thomas judges Clemens and Bonds as worthy of Hall
While many optimists proclaim that the Steroid Era is over in baseball, former White Sox slugger Frank Thomas remains wary. "I don't think it's ever going to be over," the future Hall of Famer told me Wednesday before the Cubs-Sox series finale at U.S....
Tags: Baseball, Chicago Cubs, Mark McGwire, Major League Baseball, Sports
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