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Maicer Izturis had an RBI single and scored the go-ahead run on Tommy Murphy’s groundout, helping the Los Angeles Angels beat the Dodgers 4-2 Saturday night in the preseason finale for both teams. The Angels won the three-game Freeway Series 2-1. Joe Saunders, beginning the season in the starting rotation along with Dustin Moseley because […]

Ron Washington took a seat in the home dugout at Texas’ stadium for the first time Saturday and enjoyed the view. “It’s a beautiful ballpark,” he said. A few hours later, his Rangers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 on Nelson Cruz’s one-out homer in the bottom of the ninth inning. Robinson Tejeda yielded one hit […]

Baseball’s first Civil Rights Game meant a lot to Preston Wilson, the only black player on the St. Louis Cardinals.
“When you say civil rights, you think about the struggles, especially for my race, to be considered equals - or to even be the same type of human being,” Wilson said. “It’s just the culmination of […]

Baseball’s first Civil Rights Game meant a lot to Preston Wilson, the only black player on the St. Louis Cardinals.
“When you say civil rights, you think about the struggles, especially for my race, to be considered equals - or to even be the same type of human being,” Wilson said. “It’s just the culmination of […]

Baseball’s first Civil Rights Game meant a lot to Preston Wilson, the only black player on the St. Louis Cardinals. “When you say civil rights, you think about the struggles, especially for my race, to be considered equals — or to even be the same type of human being,” Wilson said. “It’s just the culmination […]

NC State’s top prospect, Andrew Brackman, took the mound against ACC foe Boston College on Saturday — TigsTown.com’s Mark Anderson was there to take in the action. Did Brackman live up to the hype and dominate the Eagles, or were there other stars on this day?
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Esteban Loaiza and Eric Milton are struggling to stay healthy at the end of spring training. NL batting champion Freddy Sanchez hasn’t fully recovered from his knee injury, so he’s headed to the disabled list. Loaiza was scratched from his scheduled start Saturday for the second time in three days, and the Oakland Athletics’ […]

Dave Roberts told himself he would steal a base Saturday, then went out and did it. As the season approaches, this is what Roberts does — and he is already showing the San Francisco Giants just the kind of asset he will be on the basepaths. It’s an element they haven’t had in the leadoff […]

Last summer, Stephen Drew replaced Craig Counsell as the Arizona Diamondbacks’ shortstop. Now Drew has replaced him as the team’s leadoff hitter. Answering one of the club’s main spring training questions, manager Bob Melvin picked Drew as his leadoff man before the Diamondbacks’ 12-8 victory over San Diego on Saturday in their spring training finale.
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