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Atlanta pitcher Tim Hudson left Wednesday night’s game against Florida withan elbow tightness. Chipper Jones was also injured in the game for the Braves. Hudson departed after throwing only 68 pitches because of his injury. He blamed the tender elbow on the eight to 10 splitters he threw and said he expects to make his next start as scheduled. He pitched six shutout innings before leaving the game and will be evaluated on Thursday, an off day for the team.
July 24th, 2008
C.C. Sabathia was by no means dominant in his debut for the Milwaukee Brewers, but he was good enough to earn his 1st victory with his new team. Sabathia pitched 6 innings, allowing 5 hits, 5 walks and 2 earned runs while striking out 5 against the Colorado Rockies as his new teammates helped him to a 7-3 victory. Sabathia came over from a trade with the Cleveland Indians on Monday where he was 7-8 with an ERA of 3.79 and had 128 strikeouts in 128.1 innings pitched. The former Cleveland ace will be switched from the last place Indians to a Milwaukee Brewers team that is in the NL Central and in the hunt for a pennant.
July 9th, 2008
Chipper Jones, the Atlanta Braves third baseman, has caused further damage to his already strained right quadriceps during the game against the Seattle mariners last Friday night and is expected to be out of action for a minimum of two games. Jones, after the baseball game, said that he sustained the injury during the fourth inning of the game but tried his maximum to pull through the game despite the pain in his right quads. He could not play beyond the eighth inning as his right quads were very painful. Braves fans with tickets for the next two games will be saddened by the fact that Chipper Jones will not be entertaining them with his baseball prowess.
June 27th, 2008
The Arizona D-backs great run this season was halted by the Florida Marlins in South Florida last Thursday night with a score line of 4-0 and the D-backs would have known by now that baseball is not an easy game at all. This was the first time that the D-backs have lost this season and their second baseman Orlando Hudson was right in pointing out that any team will have to face the ups and downs during a season, no matter how good they are. Arizona D-backs manager Bob Melvin said that the team is facing a rough patch now and will need to be more focused and committed in the days lying ahead.
May 31st, 2008
The Pirates lost to the cubs 10-8. This was one of the best home openers and the crowd at PNC Park was thrilled at the match. The innings of the Cubs got off to a good start. Ryan led off with a double. He was replaced by Brian Bixler. Bixler was included in the game just the day before. Doug Mientkiewicz was intentionally walked. He was followed by José Bautista. He decided to bunt the very first pitch he saw at the first base line.
The two baseball teams together got 26 hits. 27 men were there on base. By the end of the game there was no one left in the bullpen or the bench. Evan Meek took the mound in the 12th. He gave two walks, threw two pitches and got the two runs that the cubs needed to get the win. For the Pirates Gorzelanny lasted just 2 1/3 innings. He later said that he takes full responsibility for the game as a lot depends on the starter. The pirates however continued from where he left and they put up a good fight.
April 8th, 2008
Roger Clemens, former pitcher of the New York Yankees, is now in a legal battle against Brian McNamee, his former trainer. Clemens is said to have used performance-enhancing drugs, and McNamee claims to have been the one who injected them on him.
On February 7, they both went to Capitol Hill — Clemens to meet with congressmen and McNamee to meet with lawyers from the House Committee — and delivered different stories regarding the matter. Just a day before, McNamee gave physical evidence to to Jeff Novitzky, an IRS Special Agent, to prove that the former pitcher did use steroids and human growth hormones. This physical evidence was actually syringes and gauze pads used in 2000 and 20001 that he said had the pitcher’s blood.
This issue was first opened in December 2007 when McNamee confessed in George Mitchell’s report about drugs and baseball that he himself injected Clemens with drugs in 1998, 2000, and 2001. Reacting to the story, Clemens denied his former trainer’s words, and eventually caught the attention of Congress.
Now everyone’s waiting for the public hearing scheduled on February 13 Wednesday. Andy Pettitte, who is presently the New York Yankees pitcher, will be testifying along with other witnesses.
February 9th, 2008
Roger Clemens has gone back to court to try yet again to pursue a denial that he ever used performance enhancing drugs of any kind. He spent four hours with the lawyers from a congress committee and had to provide a sworn statement soon after one of his teammates presented their testimony.
Clemens had been accused of not only using steroids, but HGH as well. Brian McNamee, his former trainer, said Clemens had started on the steroids way back in 1998 when he was with the Toronto Blue Jays. McNamee also stated that he had given Clemens some of these injections himself. Clemens claimed the injections were nothing more than B12 and Lidocaine shots.
Clemens is also the third player from the Major League of Baseball to be fingered by McNamee. One of the players, Pettitte actually said he did use HGH in 2002 while trying to come back from an injury. The hearing did find that the two, Clemens and Pettitte, were old friends and did do some training together.
Apparently, all of this press hasn’t hurt Clemens in anyway. He showed up in George Steinbrenner’s own personal private box and negotiated a $28 million dollar contract for himself. So he must have done something right.
February 8th, 2008
The big news in baseball today is the move of the Richmond Virginia Braves to Atlanta. The team has been in Richmond for almost forty years. Since the mayor of the City of Richmond couldn’t figure out how or where to build them a new stadium, the Braves have taken an offer to go to Atlanta. The old stadium needs repair badly. They have rat infestations, no drainage on the field, and there is concrete that falls at inopportune minutes that could possibly hit someone in the head. The city has offered suggestions, but none have come to fruition. The Braves will be leaving at the end of the season.
Across the land in San Francisco, the Giants are trying to develop a new parking lot right next to their ballpark. The small strip mall will include several clubs, shops, and a place for musicians to give concerts. Usually they have around 2000 cars parked for every game. The strip mall will bite into that space. The Giants are hopeful that the new parking lot will help solve that problem. If not, they will have to look into other arenas for meeting their fan’s parking needs. They don’t want to lose any if they can help it.
February 5th, 2008
Baseball is arguably America’s most popular game. It is a bat and ball game played by to competing teams of nine players each. The aim of the game is to score points through runs. To do this a ball is thrown and is hit with a bat and the hitter has to run and touch four markers or bases arranged at the corners of the diamond spot. The players on the offensive teams would take turn throwing the ball and trying to score runs while the defensive team tries to stop them by getting the hitters out using different ways. The teams switch between offence and defense as soon as the defensive teams get three out on the hitter. Each offensive play for a team is considered an inning, nine innings makes up a game. At the end of nine innings the team with the most number of runs wins the game.
In North America the professional league teams are divided into the National League and the American League. Each of these is further divided into three, the east, west and Central divisions. Towards the end of a league year four teams per division would play the play offs of that division. The winner of the play offs becomes champions of the Major League Baseball and qualifies for the World Series. Apart from the US baseball is enjoyed and passionately played and followed in other parts of the world. In regions such as East Asia, the Caribbean, South America, North America and Central America and even in South Africa the game is played at amateur, youth and professional levels
January 30th, 2008
The Detroit Tigers are talking with Curtis Granderson about a long-term contract extension. Curtis Granderson is not set to became a free agent until the end of the 2011 season, however. Last year Granderson made $410,000 and was thinking that maybe the team could sign him a likeminded contract for the 2008 season. The club now has more of a reason to sign Curtis to a long-term contract over the next few months after he was almost selected for his first All-Star game. The Detroit Tigers would prefer the contract to stretch a minimum of one season. At this point contract length or salary have not been discussed.
January 28th, 2008
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