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D-backs vs. Phillies NLCS Game 1 FAQ, lineups (8 ET, TBS)
16Oct By us99newsNo Comments
Baseball

D-backs vs. Phillies NLCS Game 1 FAQ, lineups (8 ET, TBS)

PHILADELPHIA -- It might be a battle of National League Wild Cards with a visit to the World Series on the road starting Monday night time at Citizens Bank Park. While the fourth-seeded Phillies hope to achieve the Fall Classic for the second straight yr and hoist the Commissioner’s Trophy this time round, the sixth-seeded D-backs look to profit from their first NL Championship Series since 2007. “They're playing a lot like us right now,” Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto mentioned. “They're sizzling. That's what the postseason is all about. You get in a rhythm. You get confidence. You get momentum, and that is one thing that they've actually performed with this postseason. “Their lineup is really deep. They have really good right-handed hitters. They have really good left-handed hitters. The...
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Tours Will not Merge, Pay Infairness “Insane”
16Oct By us99newsNo Comments
Tennis

Tours Will not Merge, Pay Infairness “Insane”

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Monday, October 15, 2024Several outstanding Grand Slam champions help an ATP and WTA merger. Maria Sharapova says it isn't occurring.  More: Gonzales on GonzalesFormer world No. 1 Sharapova instructed Bloomberg a merger unifying the ATP and WTA is "not going to happen" and blasted the inequity in prize cash at some Tour occasions as "insane." “It’s not going to happen; no, it’s not,” Sharapova instructed Bloomberg. “Just this week, there’s a men’s tournament, that’s still happening in Shanghai with the winner’s prize check $1.2 million. In the same week in China there’s a women’s tournament with a winner’s check of $120,000. …“I don’t know if anyone’s familiar with those numbers. You got to a Grand Slam and we are celebrating equal prize money at a G...
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Sunday Notes: Five Years and a Rule-5 Later, Ryan Noda Receives a Third Comp
15Oct By us99newsNo Comments
Baseball

Sunday Notes: Five Years and a Rule-5 Later, Ryan Noda Receives a Third Comp

Ryan Noda was a 22-year-old Toronto Blue Jays prospect coming off his first full skilled season when he led Sunday Notes on December 15, 2018. Drafted within the fifteenth spherical out of the University of Cincinnati a yr earlier, Noda had logged 20 dwelling runs and a .421 OBP with then-Low-A Lansing, prompting me to check him to former Bearcat Kevin Youkilis. With the caveat “I’m not close to being in his class,” he informed me that he modeled his sport after Joey Votto. Five years and two organizations later, Noda is now a big-leaguer himself. Selected by the Oakland Athletics out of the Los Angeles Dodgers system in final winter’s Rule 5 draft, the left-handed-hitting first baseman proceeded to place up strong numbers with MLB’s worst-performing membership. In 495 plate appearanc...
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