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Weekly Hit Ground Ball: Bonus breakfast baseball

Benefits to Brits of games going deep into extra innings

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Zito’s sophisticated slop

The Yankees couldn’t escape from their Championship Series predicament, but the San Francisco Giants might after their surprising Game Five victory

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Pujols booed and Rivera suffers from the closer curse

It’s already been a dramatic week in MLB, from the high of Jered Weaver’s no-hitter to the low of Mariano Rivera’s knee injury

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MLB manager vacancy: managerial experience not required

The Cardinals appointed Mike Matheny as their new manager on Monday. Alongside the White Sox’s appointment of Robin Ventura, the decisions show that managerial experience is far from being an essential requirement when applying for an MLB managerial position

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An inspiring World Series

A day or so removed from the final out, the excitement generated by this year’s World Series is still fully evident among baseball fans

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They think it’s all over… it is now!

It’s time to swap out rally caps for santa hats, wooden bats for Christmas trees, and catcher’s mitts for woolly mittens.

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World Series 2011: On to Game Seven

Game Seven of the 2011 World Series will get underway at 1.05 am on Saturday. At several times during Game Six, it seemed very unlikely that we would have one more game to look forward to in the 2011 season

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World Series 2011 Game Five: Rangers are one win away from glory

The Texas Rangers stand one win away from capturing the 2011 World Series after a 4-2 victory in a weird and wonderful Game Five

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World Series 2011 Game Four: Holland’s gem levels the series

Derek Holland pitched a gem in Game Four, silencing the same bats that had silenced Rangers Ballpark by making so much noise in Game Three

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World Series 2011 Game Three: Pujols Pummels the Rangers

The 2011 World Series moved to a new location for Game Three and it offered up a completely different contest to the first two games. The Cardinals took a 2-1 series lead with a 16-7 victory with Albert Pujols launching three home runs

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