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White Sox Avoid Sweep – ALDS Game 4 Set for Monday

Monday, October 6th, 2008 | Sports | No Comments

The Chicago White Sox defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3 to avoid a 3-game sweep on Sunday 10/5 in Chicago.  John Danks pitched into the 7th inning giviing up 3 runs on 7 hits, while striking out 7 Rays batters.  White Sox Relievers Octavio Dotel and Matt Thornton helped get the Sox into the 9th, where Bobby Jenks cleaned house allowing only one batter to reach in notching hist 1st save of the 2008 playoffs.  The bottom-half of the White Sox order helped pace the Sox offensive attack – Ken Girffey, Jr. was 2 for 2 with a run scored; Dwayne Wise was 1 for 2 with 2 RBI’s and a run scored and Juan Uribe was 1 for 3 with an RBI.  Rays Pitcher Matt Garza took the loss by giving up 5 runs in 6 innings of work – he gave up 7 hits, while walking 4 and striking out 4.  B. J. Upton hit a 2-run hoem run for the Rays in the 7th inning to cut the Sox lead to 5-3, but they could never get closer than that.

ALDS Game 4 will be played on Monday 10/6 at 4PM in Chicago.  The Rays will throw 137-game winner Andy Sonnanstine, while the White Sox will counter with 17-game winner Gavin Floyd.

Tags: B.J. Upton, Chicago White Sox, Gavin Floyd, John Danks, Jr., Ken Girffey, MLB playoffs, Tampa Bay Rays

Cubs Choke Again…

Monday, October 6th, 2008 | Sports | No Comments

Cubs 2008

For the 2nd consecutive year, the Chicago Cubs were swept out of the playoffs with a 3 games to none disaster against the NL West representative – this time the Los Angeles Dodgers.  Dodgers Manager Joe Torre (ex- New York Yankees Manager and winner of 4 World Series titles) bested friend and Chicago Cubs Manager Lou Pinella in the short 3-game set.  After the Cubs fell behind 4-2 on James Loney’s Grand Slam off of Ryan Dempster in the 5th inning of NLDS Game 1, the 2 teams could have called it quits and saved a lot of time and money for players and fans traveling cross-country to Los Angeles.  The Cubs bumbled their way to a 10-3 loss at home in NLDS Game #2 (each Cubs infielder committed an error in the contest), and then showed no heart in the decisive 3-1 loss in Los Angeles on Saturday night.  The Cubs bats did not show up for a 2nd consecutive year – although the team had numerous opportunites to score in all 3 games, the Cubs only scored runs in 4 of the 27 innings played.  The Cubs hit only one home run all series, and productive stars Left Fielder Alfonso Soriano (1 for 14 just as he did against the Diamondbacks in 2007), Third Baseman Aramis Ramirez (2 for 11), Catcher Geovany Soto (2 for 11) Center Fielder Jim Edmonds (2 for 10), each had atrocious series.   With runners in scoring position, the Cubs got only 2 hits in 28 bats.  On the opposite side of the ball, Manny Ramirez had 5 hits in 10 at-bats, including 2 home runs, 5 runs scored and 3 RBI’s in the series.  The top 3 hitters in the Dodgers lineup (Rafael Furcal, Russell Martin and Ramirez) did all the damage in NLDS Game #3 – 4 for 9 with 3 weeks and all 3 runs scored – and for the series, hit a collective .371 with 11 runs scored and 10 RBI’s.   100 years has come and gone for the Chicago Cubs – will it be another 100 years before we see a Cubs World Series Championship?  Ask Cubs fans, and most will likely say … yes!

Tags: Chicago Cubs, Joe Torre, Los Angeles Dodgers, Lou Pinella, Manny Ramirez, MLB playoffs

NCAA Scores

Monday, October 6th, 2008 | Sports | No Comments

Saturday, Oct 4

• Penn St. vs Purdue

  	6	Penn St	20
  		Purdue	6

  • Final

• Kansas vs Iowa St.

  	16	Kansas	35
  		Iowa St	33

  • Final

• Oklahoma vs Baylor

  	1	Oklahoma	49
  		Baylor	17

  • Final

• Florida vs Arkansas

  	12	Florida	38
  		Arkansas	7

  • Final

• West. Kentucky vs Virginia Tech

  		W Kentucky	13
  	20	VA Tech	27

  • Final

• Texas Tech vs Kansas St.

  	7	Texas Tech	58
  		Kansas St	28

  • Final

• Kentucky vs Alabama

  		Kentucky	14
  	2	Alabama	17

  • Final

• Auburn vs Vanderbilt

  	13	Auburn	13
  	19	Vanderbilt	14

  • Final

• Connecticut vs North Carolina

  	24	Connecticut	12
  		UNC	38

  • Final

• Texas vs Colorado

  	5	Texas	38
  		Colorado	14

  • Final

• Texas A&M vs Oklahoma St.

  		Texas A&M	28
  	21	Okla St	56

  • Final

• Oregon vs USC

  	23	Oregon	10
  	9	USC	44

  • Final

• Ohio St. vs Wisconsin

  	14	Ohio St	20
  	18	Wisconsin	17

  • Final

• Missouri vs Nebraska

  	4	Missouri	52
  		Nebraska	17

  • Final

• Hawaii vs Fresno St.

  		Hawaii	32
  	22	Fresno St	29

Tags: college football, football, NCAA football scores

NCAA Football Week 6

Monday, October 6th, 2008 | Sports | No Comments

AP rankings

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