Baseball umps take their lumps over disputed calls in postseason
Missed calls in playoff games, leading to bouts of cursing and booted managers, spur renewed demands for expanded use of instant replay. A few people in the know talk about the difficulties of officiating baseball. That didn’t take long.
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Unsung heroes in Detroit sports history
In honor of Kirk Maltby’s retirement, five of our favorite role players:
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Joe Lemire: Speedy Andres Torres fast becoming invaluable to Giants
ATLANTA — About an hour after the Giants’ workout had ended on Saturday, two team buses had come and gone and now a cab driver waiting for Andres Torres was getting impatient.
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Tony Paul’s NLCS preview: Giants vs. Phillies
The Giants haven’t hit well all season — of this year’s playoff participants, they scored by far the fewest runs in 2010 — and that doesn’t figure to change against the horses in the Phillies rotation.
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