Major League Baseball’s October classic kicks off today in fine fashion, matching up the league’s best for a memorable playoff season.
Yesterday’s 1-game playoff between the Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers was an instant (ESPN) Classic.  12-innings, something like 24 hits and 20 stranded base runners in total.  Both teams were hungry, but the Twins executed [...]

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Autopsy results show that Harry Kalas, the voice of NFL Films and a longtime Philadelphia Phillies broadcaster, died from heart disease.   Continue reading on NFL.com

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Brad Lidge and the Phillies finished off the Tampa Bay Rays in a three-inning sprint to win a suspended Game 5 nearly 50 hours after it started.
PHILADELPHIA — From losingest team to longest game, the Philadelphia Phillies are World Series champions. Continue reading on L.A. Times
Congratulations to the Philadelphia [...]

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Ryan Howard connects for two home runs and winning pitcher Joe Blanton hits one as well in a 10-2 rout in Game 4.  Even their pitcher socked a ball into the seats. Continue reading on L.A. Times
The Philadelphia Phillies took a huge step Sunday night to becoming the next World Series [...]

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Philadelphia gets seven strong innings from its starting pitcher, and Utley hits a two-run home as Tampa Bay fails to win the opener at home.  Cole Hamels, Chase Utley and the rest of the Philadelphia Phillies shook off a week’s worth of waiting and turned it into a World Series victory.  [...]

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Rays defeat Red Sox, 3-1, in Game 7 of the ALCS behind the strong pitching performance of Matt Garza and will host the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday night. Down to their last chance, the Tampa Bay Rays left no doubt they were World Series-worthy, after all.  Continue reading on L.A. Times

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Blake DeWitt’s three-run triple is the key hit in a five-run first as Dodgers take Game 3 on a strong outing by Hiroki Kuroda and cut Philadelphia’s series lead to 2-1. Teams nearly brawl in the third inning. The Dodgers revived their World Series hopes tonight by defeating the Phillies, 7-2, [...]

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Philadelphia batters Chad Billingsley for eight runs in 2 1/3 innings and survives Manny Ramirez’s three-run homer to win, 8-5.  Continue reading on L.A. Times

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The All-Star second baseman had the Southland pedigree to star for the Dodgers, but instead has ended up as the most popular player in Philadelphia.
You can take the kid out of L.A., but you can’t take L.A. out of the kid. Unless, that is, the kid is Chase Utley, who would [...]