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• Playoff Pulse: Goats, Car-Go and a Dream Final Foursome
• By Andrew Johnson 10/13/2009 6:00 AM ET
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• Playoff Pulse is our morning rundown of the night that was and the night that will be during the MLB postseason. Looking Forward ... Let's keep this section short, since there will be plenty of ... More »
• Here's the 'Nitty-Gritty': Phils Onto NLCS
• By Chris Tomasson 10/13/2009 1:08 AM ET
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• DENVER -- How the Philadelphia Phillies were able to sneak all those cases of Bud Light into Coors Field is another story. But it was quite evident what the beverage of choice was following the team's ... More »
• Confidence Makes All Difference in 'Pen
• By Frankie Piliere 10/12/2009 11:58 PM ET
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• In Advanced Scouting, MLB FanHouse's professional talent evaluator breaks down the playoffs from a scouting perspective. There is one lesson that we learn year in and year out as the postseason ... More »
• Huston Street and Ryan Howard Illustrate The Closer Fallacy
• By Pat Lackey 10/12/2009 10:41 PM ET
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• Let's start by looking at two stat lines. Some of you have probably already guessed where I'm going with this, but bear with me. Player A: .319/.395/.691, 1 HR/11.56 plate appearances Player B: ... More »
• Let's Give Holliday a Break, for Once
• By Terence Moore 10/12/2009 7:35 PM ET
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• Contrary to popular belief, Ralph Branca didn't throw away a pennant with his pitch that became Bobby Thomson's shot heard around the world. All of the Brooklyn Dodgers kept themselves out of the ... More »
• Playoff Pulse: Games Compelling, but Dramatic Series Sorely Lacking
• By Andrew Johnson 10/12/2009 6:00 AM ET
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• Playoff Pulse is our morning rundown of the night that was and the night that will be during the MLB postseason. Looking Forward ... TNT purports to know drama. Its sister network TBS knows all too ... More »
• Clutch Ethier Settling in During October
• By Jeff Fletcher 10/11/2009 6:46 PM ET
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• ST. LOUIS -- All those walk-off homers in the regular season earned Andre Ethier a nice reputation as a clutch producer, but so far in the postseason he is earning a new, even more important one. ... More »
• 2009 MLB Postseason Schedule
• By Pat Lackey 10/11/2009 5:20 PM ET
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• With two series over, Major League Baseball has updated the schedule for the rest of the Division Series. The Rockies and Phillies will play their Game 4 at 4 PM ET if the Yankees-Twins series is ... More »
• Playoff Pulse: Bundle Up, Colorado
• By Andrew Johnson 10/11/2009 6:00 AM ET
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• Playoff Pulse is our morning rundown of the night that was and the night that will be during the MLB postseason. Looking Forward ... With the World Series scheduled to go into November, we had a ... More »
• Padilla Flashes Raw Stuff of Ace
• By Frankie Piliere 10/11/2009 12:13 AM ET
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• In Advanced Scouting, MLB FanHouse's professional talent evaluator breaks down the playoffs from a scouting perspective. The St. Louis Cardinals may have beaten themselves in getting swept by the ... More »
• Padilla Delivers L.A. Sweep, Vindication
• By Jeff Fletcher 10/10/2009 11:30 PM ET
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• ST. LOUIS -- Two years in a row now the Dodgers have taken a player who was so maddening to his previous team that it was willing to pay him to play somewhere else. Two years in a row, that player ... More »
• Manuel Leans Left as Weather Allows Phillies to Shuffle Rotation
• By Chris Tomasson 10/10/2009 9:00 PM ET
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• DENVER -- Charlie Manuel stepped outside Saturday morning and it was 17 degrees. But Manuel didn't feel left out in the cold. He looked at it as another opportunity to roll out a left-hander. ... More »
• Chris Carpenter Would Start Game 4
• By Jeff Fletcher 10/10/2009 3:07 PM ET
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• ST. LOUIS -- Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said on Saturday afternoon that Chris Carpenter will start Game 4 for the Cardinals, if they win Game 3 today, which would be the first start of ... More »
• Phillies-Rockies Game 3 Postponed
• By FanHouse Newswire 10/10/2009 11:56 AM ET
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• The Phillies and Rockies will have to wait another day to resolve the 1-1 tie in their NLDS series, as Saturday's Game 3 has been postponed due to inclement weather. The game, which was supposed to ...
• Cardinals Will Not Recover From Hole
• By Tom Fornelli 10/10/2009 10:00 AM ET
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• It truly was one of the more magical endings to a baseball playoff game we've ever seen, a game that can't be described any better than a Hollywood ending in which the hero miraculously manages to ... More »
• Playoff Pulse: And on the Fourth Day, They Started?
• By Andrew Johnson 10/10/2009 6:00 AM ET
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• Playoff Pulse is our morning rundown of the night that was and the night that will be during the MLB postseason. Looking Forward ... Is it the desperation of potential elimination that makes teams ... More »
• Cardinals' Pineiro Sinks to Top
• By Jeff Fletcher 10/09/2009 7:37 PM ET
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• ST. LOUIS -- The Cardinals are facing their most important game of the season, so it's good that they have Joel Pineiro to take the ball. Who'd have guessed you'd read that sentence a couple years ... More »
• Pedro Martinez to Start Game 3
• By Tom Fornelli 10/09/2009 3:04 PM ET
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• It had been one of the greatest mysteries of the baseball postseason thus far in 2009. Who would start Game 3 for the Philadelphia Phillies in their NLDS matchup with the Colorado Rockies? It was an ... More »
• Playoff Pulse: Ugly Umpiring Looms
• By Andrew Johnson 10/09/2009 6:00 AM ET
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• Playoff Pulse is our morning rundown of the night that was and the night that will be during the MLB postseason. Looking Forward ... Major League Baseball is fortunate the Angels' Game 1 win over ... More »
• Cards Show Manny Isn't Same Manny
• By Frankie Piliere 10/09/2009 2:00 AM ET
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• In Advanced Scouting, MLB FanHouse's professional talent evaluator breaks down the playoffs from a scouting perspective. The Dodgers have gotten by down the stretch and in the playoffs despite a less ... More »
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