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October 25, 2012 San Francisco Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval is only the fourth player to have knocked the ball out of the park three times in one World Series game. His team beat the Detroit Tigers 8-3 in Game 1.

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October 24, 2012 Not a seamhead? Trapped in a conversation about the World Series, which starts tonight? Here are a couple bits of baseball trivia you can drop before pretending to get a phone call and scurrying away.

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October 23, 2012 The San Francisco Giants came back to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 9-0 in Game 7 of the National League championship series Monday. They face the Detroit Tigers in the World Series.

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October 18, 2012 The Tigers won 8-1 for a four-game sweep of the American League championship series. It's their second trip to the World Series in seven years. They'll face either defending champions St. Louis Cardinals or the San Francisco Giants.

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August 22, 2012 Watch as Oakland pulls off the relatively rare feat against the Minnesota Twins. And here's a trivia question: Who hit into more triple plays than anyone else during his Hall of Fame career?

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August 21, 2012 The Rocket will pitch for the independent Sugar Land Skeeters in Texas. A Houston Astros scout says the Clemens, 50, looks good. Clemens might want another MLB start to delay a Hall of Fame vote. Putting it off would put distance between a ballot and allegations he used performance enhancing drugs.

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June 19, 2012 The superstar pitcher has been found not guilty of lying to Congress about performance-enhancing drugs. His career stats are Hall of Fame stuff. Should he get in?

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June 14, 2012 VIDEO: When the last out was made and Matt Cain's perfect game was in the record books, San Francisco fans went nuts. See what it was like in the stands.

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May 22, 2012 "That's just crazy," Cincinnati fan Caleb Lloyd said Monday night after he ended up snagging two home run balls — from consecutive batters — during the Reds' 4-1 win over the visiting Atlanta Braves.

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April 18, 2012 Tuesday, at the age of 49 years, 150 days, he beat the San Diego Padres. Now, he's "one for the aged."

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October 31, 2011 The baseball team's skipper won his third World Series title on Friday. A sure-fire Hall of Famer, he has the third-most wins in Major League history.

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October 29, 2011 The team that in late summer didn't look like it would even make the playoffs came from behind again to defeat the Texas Rangers 6-2 in Game 7. For the Cardinals, it's the team's 11th World Series title. Texas is still looking for its first.

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October 21, 2011 Wyoming's Casper Ghosts are moving to Grand Junction, Colo. — and that means baseball is losing one of its neatest team/nickname combinations, just four years after the Pioneer League team adopted the name.

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July 30, 2011 Baseball is a forensic practice. This is one source of its richness as a sport. And it explains why keeping score has such special meaning for the game.

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