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Playoff Pinch Hits: It’s Do Or Die For Tigers And Angels On Sunday
By Sam McPherson The two American League Division Series resume on Sunday, and surprisingly, both matchups have been lopsided so far — at least in terms of series standings. The Baltimore Orioles won...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Nationals One Loss Away From Another Playoff Disappoinment
By Sam McPherson Sometimes, you have to wonder why Major League Baseball even bothers with a 162-game season if the results mean so little come October. The grind of a long season can come to an abrupt...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: ALCS Series Is Set
By Sam McPherson- (CBS) If anyone reading this picked the Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals as the American League finalists for 2014 back in spring training, we just don’t believe you. Even...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Kershaw, Dodgers Can’t Get Past Cardinals Yet Again
By Sam McPherson- The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, again, in the postseason, eliminating them in four games with a comeback win over Clayton Kershaw on Tuesday. Kershaw posted...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Giants Eliminate Nationals With Three One-Run Wins
By Sam McPherson- (CBS) It’s really true in baseball: Once the playoffs start, the regular season means nothing. Take for example the San Francisco Giants, a team with the lowest win total of any MLB...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Royals Spending Less Money To Win In Playoffs
By Sam McPherson- (CBS) For the fifth year in a row, the National League pennant will go to the St. Louis Cardinals or the San Francisco Giants, two big spenders with payrolls well above $100 million....
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Playoff Pinch Hits: National League Dominated Lately By Exclusive Group
By Sam McPherson No National League team has won three straight pennants since the St. Louis Cardinals did it from 1942-44, but only three teams have represented the NL in the World Series since 2008....
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Playoff Pinch Hits: It’s All Kansas City In The American League Playoffs
By Sam McPherson The Kansas City Royals just keep on winning in the most impressive fashion, and nothing seems to be able to stop them from advancing in the 2014 American League playoffs right now....
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Wild-Card Teams Dominating MLB Postseason
By Sam McPherson- (CBS) Like him or not, outgoing MLB commissioner Bud Selig brought some changes to the game of baseball in the last two decades — most notably the expansion of the postseason in 1994...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Predicting The World Series Matchup
By Sam McPherson- (CBS) Monday’s rainout of Game 3 in the American League Championship Series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals provides a unique chance to look forward at both...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: NLCS Could Go 7 Games This Year
By Sam McPherson- (CBS) The San Francisco Giants won the battle that was Game 3 on Tuesday, but all parties involved know the war — a.k.a the National League Championship Series — is far from over....
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Royals’ Streak May End In World Series
By Sam McPherson- (CBS Local) With yet another win fueled by defense and pitching on Wednesday, the Kansas City Royals claimed their first American League pennant since 1985 with a 2-1 victory in Game...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Royals Will Be Fan Favorites In WS
By Sam McPherson- (CBS Local) There are two primary reasons the nation’s baseball fans will be rooting for the Kansas City Royals, en masse, next week. First, the Royals are a feel-good story the game...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: James Shields-Wil Myers Trade A Success For Royals
By Sam McPherson In December 2012, Kansas City Royals General Manager Dayton Moore made one of the biggest trades in recent memory, acquiring Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher James Shields in exchange...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Giants’ World Series Win Won’t Make Them A Dynasty
By Sam McPherson- (CBS Local) If the San Francisco Giants end up winning the World Series this October, there will be a lot of discussion about whether their third championship in a five-year span...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Royals And Giants An Unlikely World Series Pairing
By Sam McPherson Depending on your point of view, the 2014 World Series matchup between the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants is either everything you wanted — or nothing like you...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Why The Royals Will Win The World Series In 6 Games
By Sam McPherson- (CBS Local) The moment of truth has arrived: Game One of the 2014 World Series will be played Tuesday evening in Kansas City, and the only thing we can guarantee is that very little...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: Royals Even Up World Series; Giants Not Worried
By Sam McPherson This isn’t the way the San Francisco Giants scripted their third trip to the World Series in the last five seasons, and that’s just fine with the Kansas City Royals. The Royals’ bats...
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Playoff Pinch Hits: World Series Game 4 Will Be Another Close One
By Sam McPherson The Kansas City Royals had the San Francisco Giants right where they wanted them in Game Three of the 2014 World Series: trailing going into the late innings. In the endgame, it was...
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This Week In Golf: Fowler Charges Hard For Players Championship Title
By Sam McPherson Coming into Sunday’s fourth round at The Players Championship on the famous TPC Sawgrass course in Ponte Verde Beach, Florida, veteran Rickie Fowler had just one career PGA Tour win...
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CBS Sports Golf Analyst Peter Kostis Discusses Wells Fargo Championship
By Sam McPherson After the exciting finish to The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Verde Beach, Florida, the PGA Tour moves up the Eastern Seaboard to Charlotte, North Carolina this week...
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This Week In Golf: McIlroy Goes Way Low To Win Wells Fargo
By Sam McPherson If there was any doubt about who the No. 1 golfer in the world was going into the Wells Fargo Championship last weekend, Rory McIlroy put those to rest. Winning by a whopping seven...
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This Week In Golf: Spieth’s Masters Collapse Leads To Willett’s Win
By Sam McPherson All that stood between Jordan Spieth and a second consecutive Masters win was the famed back nine at the Augusta National Golf Club. With a five-shot lead as he stood on the 10th tee,...
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This Week In Golf: Grace Takes RBC Heritage With Sunday 66
By Sam McPherson Any professional golfer who opens a tournament with a round of 66 and then closes with the same score on Sunday has a great chance of topping the leaderboard. South Africa’s Branden...
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No-Name Players Are Sometimes Better Than Established Veterans In Fantasy...
By Sam McPherson Monday, April 18 is Patriots’ Day in Boston, and so the fantasy week kicks off early with an 11:05 a.m. ET start at Fenway Park between the host Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays. For...
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This Week In Golf: Hoffman Wins Valero Texas Open With Clutch Birdie
By Sam McPherson Even in a PGA Tour event that didn’t feature a lot of big names on Sunday afternoon’s back nine, the Valero Texas Open proved once again just how exciting golf can be. Longtime Tour...
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This Week In Golf: Brian Stuard Wins Playoff At Shortened Zurich Classic
By Sam McPherson Weather forced a three-round, shortened finish at the Zurich Classic on Monday. However, it couldn’t dampen the excitement at TPC Louisiana, as three players qualified for a playoff to...
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This Week In Golf: Hahn Bests The Big Names At Wells Fargo
By Sam McPherson Many big names appeared on the leaderboard late in the fourth round of the Wells Fargo Championship. So it was surprising to see American James Hahn emerge victorious on the first...
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This Week In Golf: Jason Day Dominates The Players
By Sam McPherson The world’s No. 1-ranked golfer made it look quite easy this weekend at The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Jason Day posted a dominant win at TPC Sawgrass, leading...
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This Week In Golf: Sergio García Wins AT&T Byron Nelson In Playoff
By Sam McPherson Golf fans everywhere look to Jordan Spieth as a rising star on the PGA Tour, and rightfully so. But Sergio García, who won the AT&T Byron Nelson this weekend, was once in Spieth’s...
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This Week In Golf: Spieth Puts It Together To Win Dean & DeLuca Invitational
By Sam McPherson A couple weeks ago Jordan Spieth watched the top-ranked Jason Day win The Players Championship from the sidelines. This past week the world’s second-ranked player finally played four...
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This Week In Golf: McGirt Gets First PGA Tour Win At Memorial
By Sam McPherson William McGirt won a playoff at The Memorial Tournament on Sunday to claim his first PGA Tour title, beating Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson and Matt Kuchar down the stretch at Muirfield...
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This Week In Golf: Daniel Berger Takes FedEx St. Jude Classic
By Sam McPherson Just 23 years old, Daniel Berger joined the ranks of golfers who can call themselves PGA Tour winners. He cruised to a three-shot victory Sunday at the FedEx St. Jude Classic in...
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This Week In Golf: Dustin Johnson Claims U.S. Open, Erases Ghosts
By Sam McPherson For a whole year, PGA Tour veteran Dustin Johnson had to live with the memory of a missed putt on the 72nd hole that cost him a chance to win the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay. This...
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This Week In Golf: Navy Vet Billy Hurley III Wins Quicken Loans National
By Sam McPherson The PGA Tour has had many first-time winners this year. And perhaps it should have been expected again just one week after the U.S. Open, when many Tour stars and veterans took the...
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This Week in Golf: Dustin Johnson Does It Again At WGC-Bridgestone
By Sam McPherson Dustin Johnson shot a closing 66 on Sunday to win the Bridgestone Invitational, his third World Golf Championships event victory in the last four seasons. With 11 PGA Tour wins under...
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This Week In Golf: PGA Tour Midseason All-Stars
By Sam McPherson It was a quiet week for the PGA Tour. The Greenbrier Classic, scheduled for July 7 -10 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, was canceled a few weeks ago due to weather-related...
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Smart Roster Moves Always Make The Difference Early In The Fantasy Baseball...
By Sam McPherson It’s that time of year again, now that the 2017 regular season has kicked off for Major League Baseball. One week in, and most fantasy baseball owners are freaking out. After a draft...
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This Week In Golf: Reed Wins Masters, Holding Off Fowler, Spieth
By Sam McPherson American Patrick Reed did most of the hard work on Friday and Saturday at Augusta National, although his Sunday was anything but easy. He shot a one-under par 71 on the final day, and...
View ArticlePlayoff Pinch Hits: Four LDS Matchups In Full Swing For Weekend Action
By Sam McPherson This is the busiest weekend of Major League Baseball playoff action, and all four League Division Series will be sorted out — mostly — over the weekend’s games to be played. If NCAA...
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