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Long-standing trend: Pitching on short rest

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe started Game 4 of the NLCS on three days' rest. How pitchers going on short rest have fared in the postseason since the playoffs were expanded in 1995 (not including Monday's games):...

Lester's Game 3 struggles has BoSox feeling the heat

BOSTON - Boston's 24-year-old lefty hadn't allowed an earned run in two postseason starts in the ALDS after winning 16 regular-season games and clearly surpassing Josh Beckett as the current Red Sox ace. It was almost as if Red...

Mailbag: Will Yanks go all-out for CC?

11 hrs ago

Yankees beat reporter Bryan Hoch answers fans' questions The Yankees saw Johan Santana go to the Mets, but will they pursue CC Sabathia differently? (Morry Gash/AP) Do you think the Yankees will be as timid in pursuing CC...

Mailbag: Who can file for free agency?

18 hrs ago

Beat reporter Carrie Muskat answers Cubs fans' questions Free agents, Reed Johnson's wristband, Rich Harden's stats and postseason tickets are among the topics in this week's edition of the mailbag. I noticed that Ryan Dempster...

Slumping Howard finds stroke

LOS ANGELES -- After watching slugger Ryan Howard go hitless in eight at-bats in the first two games of the National League Championship Series, Phillies manager Charlie Manuel made the following diagnosis.

Hank: Large and Still in Charge

In case you were wondering, as baseball's first post-season without the Yankees since latish last century unfolds (and 18th straight post-season without the Reds, for the record), Hank Steinbrenner is still here. Talking to the...

Former farmhand Victorino haunts Dodgers

Buried in the Dodgers farm system and dangled twice to other teams, the Phillies' Shane Victorino is hurting the Dodgers in this National League playoff. Shane Victorino had just tripled and singled and jumped to wrap Casey...

SABATHIA, BURNETT FIGURE IN BOMBERS' OFFSEASON PLANS

BRIAN Cashman shunned a trade last winter for Johan Santana essentially for this reason: He did not think it was the proper moment in an ongoing renovation process to invest the level of prospects and dollars necessary to...

Phils' hidden gems sparkle at right time

Oct 12, 2008

Other teams' 'castoffs' making most of opportunity in Philadelphia "When one team doesn't give you the opportunity, you hope to get one somewhere else," said ex-Dodger Shane Victorino (right), acquired in the Rule 5 Draft....

Mets are legends in their own minds

There's a feeling around the Mets that somehow they are the uncrowned champions of the National League, the best team with the worst luck, or some such nonsense. When baseball's truly good teams play their best baseball, the...

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