CLEVELAND (AP) Asdrubal Cabrera singled home the winning run with one out in the ninth inning and the Cleveland Indians beat the struggling Los Angeles Angels 3-2 Friday night.
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The 2012 MLB regular season well underway. It is still a long road to October baseball but paths are already starting to take shape. The beginning of the year brings promise, and already memories have been created early in the season. At this point anything can still happen.
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Baltimore: RH closer Jim Johnson, hospitalized since Tuesday due to flu-like symptoms and a bacterial infection, hopes to go home today. Manager Buck Showalter said Johnson was still trying to keep down food. … RHP Joel Pineiro, who signed a minor league deal with the Orioles on April 11, pitched a five-inning simulated game, according to MASNsports.com. The Web site reported that Pineiro next will join Class AAA Norfolk. Pineiro, 33, has pitched in parts of 12 big-league seasons. He went 7-7 with a 5.13 ERA in 27 games (24 starts) last year with the Angels.
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Yo! Paul Konerko may have walked away with his 400th home run and a classic Hawk Harrelson call , but it was Yoenis Cespedes who hit the roundtripper with the most current meaning. The Oakland A’s rookie hit a game-tying two-run homer off Chicago’s Hector Santiago in the bottom of the 14th, paving the way for Kila Ka’aihue’s bloop RBI single that sealed a 5-4 win at the Coliseum .
”I was lucky enough to hit home runs to decide games,” Cespedes told reporters after the game. “This was not the first time.”
It won’t be the last, either. The 26-year-old outfielder has five home runs through the season’s first five games which makes Yo the best free agent pick up in the AL West not named Yu. (Yes, that’s a shot at Albert Pujols, who remained homerless and stuck in an 0-for-19 slump as the Angels fell 3-2 to the Rays . The Halos are 8 1/2 games behind first-place Texas.)
It’s over! Put your books down , Kansas City. The Royals finally snapped their 12-game losing streak with an 8-2 pounding of Ubaldo Jimenez and the Cleveland Indians. Billy Butler hit two of the team’s four home runs while Luke Hochevar decided to turn in a good start — two runs over 6 1/3 innings — for a change. Onward and upward, city of fountains!
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) Jeremy Hellickson overcame early struggles to pitch six effective innings, Ben Zobrist homered, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-2 on Wednesday night.
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Yu are so beautiful: This is probably how Yu Darvish imagined nirvana in the major leagues before he left Japan: Tossing 8 1/3 shutout innings and striking out 10 against the New York Yankees to beat a fellow expatriate in a 2-0 win. Throwing 119 pitches and 82 strikes, it was the longest scoreless outing against the Yankees by a Rangers pitcher since Bob Tewksbury went the full nine in a 1995 victory. In just a handful of starts over here at age 25, Yu is establishing himself as “Must-See TV.”
”You hear a lot of guys get hyped and he was everything that you’d heard,” Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira said.
He was better than Hiroki Kuroda, who shouldn’t feel any shame in allowing two runs over 6 2/3 innings. Ian Kinsler started the bottom of the first with his 21st career leadoff home run and Josh Hamilton added an RBI single in the third.
It was 50 years ago today (give or take): For the second straight night, the Cubs foiled the Cardinals bullpen again, tying the score in the bottom of the ninth and winning in the 10th on Alfonso Soriano’s two-out RBI single. According to Cubs record-keeper Ed Hartig , it marked the first time since July 26-27, 1961 that they beat the Cards with consecutive walkoff wins at Wrigley. Stan Musial and Ernie Banks!
Bryan LaHair tied the score in the ninth with a home run against Marc Rzepczynski, and the Cubs appeared to get some help from the umpires to keep their rally going in the 10th against Fernando Salas. Did Tony Campana get his hand on the bag to steal second base before the tag came down? Bill Welke said yes, but Cards manager Mike Matheny said no so vociferously that he was ejected. That play, along with the Cards walking LaHair intentionally to get to Soriano, set up victory. Watch the drama (or whatever you call it in April) unfold:
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CLEVELAND (AP) Derek Lowe allowed one run over six innings and the Cleveland Indians handed the Kansas City Royals their 12th straight loss, 4-3 on Tuesday night.
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Although they probably weren’t in any hurry to leave Kansas City, the Toronto Blue Jays also have enjoyed their recent visits to Baltimore.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) The Tampa Bay Rays would like to bolster their depth at designated hitter and in the outfield and have had discussions with free agent Hideki Matsui.
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The May 2012 Oakland Athletics schedule is packed with tough games for the team. It begins with two games against the Boston Red Sox from May 1-2 and also includes a three-game series against the New York Yankees from May 25-27.
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