Thursday's 2-0 win over the Pirates was a trip down memory lane for Astros fans. Lance Berkman shouldered the load offensively and Roy Oswalt took care of the rest.
With members of his Braves family sitting behind him, 20-year-old phenom Jason Heyward returned to his high school Tuesday and somewhat bashfully accepted the fact that he found yet another environment where he was the center of attention.
“We Are Family” was the feel good story of 1979. The Pittsburgh Pirates rallied around their captain, Hall-of-Famer Willie Stargell, and made Sister Sledge’s hit song their theme for the season. The Pirates broke the Philadelphia Phillies’ three-year stranglehold on the National League East title and then swept another nemesis, the Cincinnati Reds, in the National League Championship Series.But it looked like the Pirates were finally out of magic after a loss to the Baltimore Orioles on this day
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When he had the magic, Edward Charles “Whitey” Ford was all but untouchable in World Series play. The lefthander pitched his third consecutive World Series shutout on this day, October 4, 1961, a two-hitter in the New York Yankees’ 2-0 Game 1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Elston Howard and Bill Skowron hit solo homers for the Yankees, who went on to win the series in five games. Ford, who pitched five scoreless innings in a Game 4 win, was the series Most Valuable Player.The first two of For
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The final victory of Denny McLain’s remarkable 1968 season came against another 20-game winner, Mel Stottlemyre of the New York Yankees, on this day, September 19, 1968.Of course, the number 20 - a standard for excellence in measuring a pitcher’s effectiveness for a season - still represents less than two thirds of what McLain accomplished in the first of back-to-back Cy Young Award-winning campaigns. McLain’s win over the Yankees raised his record to 31-5 for the season, which he finished with
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