Twins win marathon to advance to playoffs
MINNEAPOLIS The Minnesota Twins rushed from their dugout even before Carlos Gomez s head-first slide into home. They knew. The Metrodome erupted in a jet-like roar, as Gomez scored the winning run well ahead of a late throw from right field to fini...
 5.6K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 357.0 AL: Twins force playoff
MINNEAPOLIS The Minnesota Twins held a season-long countdown celebrating their final season in the Metrodome, commemorated each game by pulling down a number hanging in the left field stands. During an emotional postgame ceremony on Sunday, Kirby P...
4.2K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 533.0 AL: Tigers miss chance to clinch
DETROIT The AL Central showdown in Motown concluded one thing: Detroit s got work to do. The Tigers had a chance to clinch their first division title since 1987 on Thursday, but the pesky Minnesota Twins refused to concede. Scott Baker didn t give ...
4.4K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 564.0 AL: Tigers nearing AL Central title
DETROIT Eddie Bonine settled down in time to move the Detroit Tigers to the brink of the AL Central title. He got a big assist from Magglio Ordonez. Bonine lasted five innings after a shaky start, Ordonez hit a three-run double and the Tigers beat ...
4.5K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 461.0 AL: Tigers keep lead
DETROIT Justin Verlander got a sense of what it s like to follow baseball from afar. It wasn t fun. Detroit s ace was home watching on TV when the Tigers lost to the Twins 3-2 in 10 innings Tuesday afternoon. Then, he drove to the ballpark and help...
5.1K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 564.0 Yankees clinch AL East title
NEW YORK ” Jon Lester was knocked out by a line drive near his right knee, and Joba Chamberlain led New York Yankees over the Boston Red Sox 9-5 Friday night for his first win in 11 2 months. Alex Rodriguez homered, drove in four runs and ...
4.1K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 461.0 Baseball: Yankees beat Red Sox
NEW YORK Jon Lester was knocked out by a line drive near his right knee, and Joba Chamberlain led New York Yankees over the Boston Red Sox 9-5 Friday night for his first win in 11 2 months. Alex Rodriguez homered, drove in four runs and tied a care...
4.1K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 461.0 AL: Twins sweep White Sox
CHICAGO Minnesota s pursuit of the Detroit Tigers got a big boost when the Twins swept three games against the Chicago White Sox to start a challenging 10-game road trip. Now the Twins are hoping Chicago will again help them out when the AL Central...
4.9K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 357.0 AL: Yankees clinch playoff spot
ANAHEIM, Calif. The Yankees were in no position to celebrate when the Texas Rangers loss to Oakland clinched New York s return to the postseason. Brett Gardner and his teammates were too busy blowing a five-run lead over the Angels. A ninth-inning...
4.8K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 357.0 AL: Saunders shuts down Yankees
ANAHEIM, Calif. No pitcher wants a stint on the disabled list, yet it appears to have cured whatever was ailing Joe Saunders. The cortisone shot helped, too, he said, smiling. Saunders pitched into the ninth inning against a powerful Yankees lineu...
5.1K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 357.0 AL: Griffey drives in four runs
SEATTLE Joe Girardi has been insisting his Yankees will need to go out and earn their playoff spot in the final two weeks of the regular season. After stumbling twice in Seattle, look where New York is with two weeks left in the season: one win fro...
4.9K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 461.0 Baseball: Rookie gives Tampa Bay a lift
BALTIMORE Wade Davis put a positive finish on a miserable road trip for the Tampa Bay Rays. The rookie right-hander threw a four-hit shutout to earn his first major league win, and the Rays beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-0 Thursday night to salvage a...
6.4K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 860.0 AL: Texas playoff hopes take big hit
ARLINGTON, Texas Marlon Byrd denied that the slumping Texas Rangers are feeling desperation, but he put into perspective just how difficult their playoff chase has become. After the Rangers lost their fourth straight game, 4-0 to the last-place Oak...
4.2K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 357.0 AL: Red Sox get boost with pitcher s return
BOSTON Daisuke Matsuzaka gave the Los Angeles Angels another thing to worry about in October. The Red Sox right-hander returned from a three-month stint on the DL with six shutout innings on Tuesday night to lead Boston to a 4-1 victory over the An...
5.1K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 564.0 AL: Yankees keep on winning
NEW YORK Torii Hunter could laugh. Shoeless Torii that was pretty funny. My spike got caught in the wall, he said. I was running out of my shoes right there. Hunter lost a shoe chasing Mark Teixeira s two-run triple in the New York Yankees 5-3...
4.8K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 461.0 Baseball: Jeter breaks tie with Gehrig
NEW YORK Derek Jeter broke the New York Yankees hit record held by Lou Gehrig for more than seven decades, but Baltimore overcame an early deficit for a 10-4 victory Friday night in a game delayed twice by rain. Jeter s third-inning single to righ...
5.3K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 357.0 Sports Briefs: Saban inks big contract extension
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Alabama coach Nick Saban has received a three-year contract extension that will reward him richly if he sticks around for the next nine seasons. The university system s Board of Trustees compensation committee unanimously approved ...
4.7K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 637.0 AL: Martinez breaks seventh-inning tie
BOSTON Victor Martinez is always ready to hit, even when he s out of the starting lineup. Martinez came off the bench and hit a three-run double to break a seventh-inning tie, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 7-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles o...
4.8K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 715.0 AL: Boston hits six homers
BOSTON Clay Buchholz somehow managed to ignore all those homers the Red Sox were hitting over the Green Monster. Staked to an 8-0 lead before he allowed his first baserunner, Buchholz pitched seven innings of three-hit ball to take advantage of Bos...
4.7K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 715.0 AL: Halladay pitches one-hitter as Jays end Yankees seven-game streak
TORONTO Roy Halladay pitched a one-hitter to snap a three-start losing streak and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Yankees 6-0 Friday night, ending New York s winning streak at seven games. Aaron Hill doubled twice and had two RBIs and Adam Lind had ...
4.8K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 357.0 | 
