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Unemployed in August, Vicente Padilla kept the Los Angeles Dodgers going in October. The second-chance pitcher shut down Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals with a 5-1 victory Saturday night, putting the Dodgers back in the National League championship series. "Anytime you win a series it's good," Casey Blake said.

The Boston Red Sox had history on their side going into their AL division series with the Los Angeles Angels. Now they need hits. The four the Red Sox managed in each of their two losses probably won't be enough in Game 3 on Sunday. And they'll probably need more than one run — their [...]

Unemployed in August, Vicente Padilla kept the Los Angeles Dodgers going in October. The second-chance pitcher shut down Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals, putting the Dodgers back in the National League championship series with a 5-1 victory on Saturday night. Andre Ethier missed the cycle by a single, Manny Ramirez had three hits [...]

Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals got a boost from a couple of solid midseason acquisitions and wrapped up the NL Central with a week left in the regular season. They never regained their edge. St. Louis was the first National League team to clinch a playoff spot and the first to be eliminated [...]

Mark DeRosa is trying to bring the intensity of football to the baseball playoffs. The approach makes sense because the St. Louis Cardinals' third baseman was the starting quarterback at Penn from 1993-95. He threw for 360 yards in the 1994 game against Cornell, the eighth on Penn's all-time list for a single game, and [...]

The cold and snow in Colorado scrapped plans for Pedro Martinez's first postseason start in five years. Game 3 of the Philadelphia-Colorado playoff series was postponed a day because of weather Saturday better suited for cross country skiing. About an hour before the scheduled start it was 24 degrees.

Carl Pavano called those four injury-riddled, tension-filled seasons in New York a "black period" in his career. Considering the size of his contract and his complete lack of production, Pavano in pinstripes became one of the biggest free-agent busts in baseball history. The right-hander has started to correct that wrong turn this year with a [...]

History was with Boston before the start of its AL division series against the Los Angeles Angels. The Red Sox need hits now. If they don't get enough of them Sunday, their hopes for a third World Series championship in six years likely will be gone. The Red Sox had just one run and eight [...]

The Minnesota Twins have taken third baseman Matt Tolbert off their division series roster due to a strained left oblique muscle. Tolbert was injured on a check swing during a second-inning at-bat in Game 2 against the New York Yankees. He remained in the game Friday night and hit what should have been an RBI [...]

Ron Gardenhire was still miffed about a fair ball ruled foul when the Minnesota manager was asked whether Major League Baseball should extend the use of instant replay. "I can't make that decision for them," the Twins manager said. "We had six umpires out there. I think, right, six? Six umpires." Now count the blown [...]