American League Championship Series appearances since LCS play began in 1969 Rank Team Total App. 1. Yankees 13 2. Athletics 11 3. Red Sox 9 4. Orioles 9 5. Angels 6 6. Royals 6 7. Twins 5 8. Blue Jays 5 9. Tigers 4 10. Indians 4 11. White Sox 3 12. Mariners 3 13. [...]
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1998—New York Yankees defeated the San Diego Padres 1999– New York Yankees defeated the Atlanta Braves 2000– New York Yankees defeated the New York Mets 2001—Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the New York Yankees 2002—Anaheim Angels defeated the San Francisco Giants 2003—Florida Marlins defeated the New York Yankees 2004—Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 2005—Chicago [...]
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Ichiro Watch: 1,988 Hits, With 12 To Go To Reach 2,000 Hits September 5, 2009, Ichiro had two hits in five at-bats in Seattle’s 6-3 loss in Oakland. Ichiro Career Hits: 1, 988 Ichiro Hits This Season: 193 When Ichiro reaches 2,000 career hits, he will be the first the first (and only) [...]
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Ichiro Watch: 1,986 Hits, With 14 To Go To Reach 2,000 Hits September 4, 2009, Ichiro Career Hits: 1, 986 Ichiro Hits This Season: 191 When Ichiro reaches 2,000 career hits, he will be the first the first (and only) player to do so in the first nine years of his Major League [...]
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Ichiro Watch: 1,983 Hits, With 17 To Go To Reach 2,000 Hits Today, August 21, 2009, Ichiro registered one hit in five at-bats in Seattle’s 9-4 win in Cleveland. Ichiro Career Hits: 1, 983 Ichiro Hits This Season: 188 When Ichiro reaches 2,000 career hits, he will be the first the first (and only) player to [...]
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Ichiro Suzuki, by far the most successful and most popular Japanese player in the Major Leagues, is inching closer to a record-setting 2,000 Major League career hits. With his output in the Mariners win over Detroit ( Aug. 18, 2009), Ichiro needs only 19 more hits to become the first player Major League Baseball’s 133-year [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Yankees’ Cabrera Hits for the Cycle
Melky Cabrera became the 15th Yankees player and first Yank in 14 years to hit for the cycle. His hitting led New York to an 8-5 victory over the White Sox in Chicago yesterday, August 2, 2009. A cycle in baseball means that a hitter, in this case Melky Cabrera, hits safely four times in the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Buehrle Perfect Game is Latest in Long Line of White Sox No-Hitters and Perfect Games
Mark Buehrle has had a good week. First, he gets to play in the All-Star Game. Then, he gets to shake hands with President Obama, the White Sox Fan-In-Chief. Then, to top it off, he gets a phone call from the president today. Oh, and the reason for the phone call is pretty cool too: [...]
Read the rest of this entry »SF Pitcher Sanchez Throws First No-Hitter of 2009
Jonathan Sanchez, Giants, pitched the majors’ first no-hitter this season, recording a career-high 11 strikeouts in San Francisco’s 8-0 win over the San Diego Padres. Sanchez is a 26-year-old left-hander who returned to the rotation after a nearly three-week demotion to the bullpen, and he only got the call because 303-game winner Randy Johnson [...]
Read the rest of this entry »MLB Number 1 Draft Picks; Strasburg expected to be No. 1 for Nats
New page listing the Number One draft picks in the Major League Baseball Draft, from 1965 to the present day. The 2009 amateur draft is held tomorrow, June 9. The Washington Nationals hold the first pick, and are expected to draft Stephen Strasburg, who is a right-handed power pitcher from San Diego State University. Strasburg [...]
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