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Major League Baseball Sends Relief to Japan

Baseball players from Japan are leading a major-league push to send relief to their disaster-ravaged country. After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, Japanese players from around Major League Baseball frantically tried to reach family members. Charles Krupa,...

Steve Phillips' Fix My Team: Dodgers

Every team has a few precious months in the offseason to make tweaks to their roster and ensure that they improve in 2011. Steve Phillips has taken a team to the World Series before, and in November and December he will present his plan for every major league team to get there as well. It's the 13th episode of Fix My Team,...

Hiroki Kuroda, Dodgers Right-Hander, Signed to One-Year Deal

The Los Angeles Dodgers signed right-handed pitcher Hiroki Kuroda Monday to a one-year contract. The deal is worth a reported $12 million. "As we continue our commitment to winning, Hiroki Kuroda will play a significant role in our rotation, which is a very important part of our club," said Ned Colletti, the Dodgers...

Roto Rush: C.J. Wilson Throws Hat Into AL Cy Young Race

First things first: Cliff Lee and Felix Hernandez are head and shoulders above the rest of the field in the race for the AL Cy Young Award. There is no debating this. That said, it's nice to appreciate the efforts of other pitchers who've performed fantastically this season and, well, C.J. Wilson and Cy Young in the...

Roto Rush: Zeroes on the Board

Thursday's action was almost completely dominated by good pitching. We saw five teams kept off the scoreboard, and that quintuplet of pitching prowess may not even include the best performance of the day! Let's fire around those shutouts and see who was responsible for such a low-scoring day of baseball. Carl Pavano went...

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Yu Darvish Shuts Out Yankees: Rangers Pitcher Strikes Out 10

Yu Darvish had a season-high 10 strikeouts pitching into the ninth inning and worked out of a couple of jams for the Texas Rangers in a 2-0 victory over the New York Yankees and countryman Hiroki Kuroda on Tuesday night.

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05/29/12 Torii Hunter returns to Angels Source: Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles CA Torii Hunter was back in uniform and in the Angels ' clubhouse Monday for the first time in more than two weeks.
05/28/12 Kuroda throws 8 scoreless as Yankees beat A's 2-0 Source: Daily Democrat - Woodland CA Hiroki Kuroda pitched eight scoreless innings and Andruw Jones hit a solo homer that helped the New York Yankees win their season-high fifth straight game, 2-0 over the Oakland Athletics on Sunday.
05/22/12 Daily Hit List: Tuesday, May 22 by Matthew Kory Source: Baseball Prospectus Yu Darvish threw 96 pitches and walked six in just four innings, for his first bad start in the majors.
05/22/12 Bats fail last-place Bombers ... again Source: New York Post - New York NY Even a steady rain couldn't wash away the boos that poured from the Yankee Stadium seats last night.
05/21/12 Kuroda takes sixth loss Source: CBSSports.com We're accustomed to seeing Jamie Moyer "win ugly" on the mound, but what about at the plate?