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Notes of the night/Stats of the day, Aug. 23
Hello, all… Back from a great mini-vacation in the Smoky Mountains, and coming to you live from Pittsburgh. I’ve been far too negligent about writing on the blog lately, so hopefully this serves as a...
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Notes of the night/Stat of the day, Aug. 26
Note of the Night, 1: Yes, Felipe Lopez was removed in the fifth inning on Thursday night. No injury was announced, so I theorized that it was simply a move for defense. And, in a way, it was. Here’s...
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Note of the night/Stat of the day, August 30
Hello from Houston. I’ll be kind of free-floating this series, working on a couple of longer-term features plus a column (maybe more than one) and some other stuff. Meanwhile, Richard Dean has your...
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Note of the night/Stat of the day, Sept. 9
Note of the night: Matt Holliday was ejected in the fourth inning on Thursday night after he argued a called third strike, making a bit of a show of it in the process. Holliday flipped his bat away,...
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Note of the night/Stat of the day, Sept. 28
Note of the night: Don’t look now, but Matt Holliday is having, well, a Matt Holliday kind of season. His slash lines: 2008: 321/409/538 2009: 313/394/515 2010: 313/389/539 That’s almost eerily...
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Note of the night/Stat of the day, March 31
Note of the night: As you may have heard, Albert Pujols had a bit of a rough one at the plate today. He hit a couple of balls harder than the results might show, but in the end, eight outs in a game is...
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Note of the night and Stat of the Day, April 4
Note of the night: It was a rough, rough night at the plate for David Freese. The Cardinals third baseman went 0-for-4 with a double play and two strikeouts, despite coming to the plate with at least...
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Note of the night/Stat of the day, April 10
Note of the night: On just about any other day, Kyle Lohse would have been the hero of my game story. He was simply outstanding, allowing virtually no hard contact through the first six innings. His...
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Notes of the night/Stat of the day, April 13
Greetings, all, from my last stop on this road trip. I’ll be headed home tomorrow, getting a few days off before rejoining the club for the next homestand. I hate to miss out on Dodger Stadium, but two...
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Note of the night/Stat of the Day, June 17
Note of the night: I hesitate to make too much of good guy/bad guy, leader, set-an-example stuff. I think those of us who do what I do tend to use that stuff as a crutch far too often, and we write it...
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