http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 07 Oct 2008 6:47:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39203/philly-powers-into-nlcs-with-6-2-win-over-brewers.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Philadelphia Phillies found plenty of power to go with their pitching, right in time for the NL championship series, the AP reports. Pat Burrell broke out of his slump in a big way with two homers, one a three-run shot, and Jimmy Rollins and Jayson Werth added solo drives today to lead the Phillies to a 6-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers that clinched their first trip to the NLCS since 1993.http://www.newser.com/story/39203/philly-powers-into-nlcs-with-6-2-win-over-brewers.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 05 Oct 2008 15:41:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39160/cubs-are-done-brewers-survive.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Cubs' century of misery won't end this year. The Dodgers beat Chicago 3-1 to complete a sweep of their best-of-5 NL playoff series, the Chicago Tribune reports. James Loney, the grand-slam hero of Game 1, hit a 2-run double in the first that held up for LA. The Cubs entered the playoffs with the NL's best record but scored only 6 runs in 3 games. The Brewers, meanwhile, beat the Phillies 4-1 to force Game 4 this afternoon.http://www.newser.com/story/39160/cubs-are-done-brewers-survive.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSat, 04 Oct 2008 20:20:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39024/phillies-up-2-0-on-brewers.html?refid=rss_all_defaultShane Victorino's grand slam off a weary C.C. Sabathia blasted the Phillies to a 5-2 win over the Brewers and a 2-0 lead in the NL championship series, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. The Brewers, who only managed three hits, will put Dave Bush on the mound tomorrow when Milwaukee sees its first postseason game since 1982.http://www.newser.com/story/39024/phillies-up-2-0-on-brewers.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 02 Oct 2008 22:06:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38970/sox-dodgers-phillies-win-openers.html?refid=rss_all_defaultJason Bay and Manny Ramirez both proved why they’d been acquired last night. Bay hit a two-run shot to give the Red Sox a lead they never relinquished, sending Anaheim to a 4-1 defeat, while the man he was traded for hit a solo shot in the Dodgers' 7-2 win over the Cubs. But the Dodgers’ real hero was James Loney, who hit a grand slam in the fifth to erase a 2-run Cubs lead.http://www.newser.com/story/38970/sox-dodgers-phillies-win-openers.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 02 Oct 2008 7:37:05 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38922/phillies-cruise-in-game-1.html?refid=rss_all_defaultCole Hamels struck out nine in eight shutout innings and got all the run support he needed on a two-run, third-inning double from Chase Utley as the Philadelphia Phillies won Game 1 of their first-round National League playoff series against the visiting Milwaukee Brewers, 3-1. The victory was Philadelphia’s first in the postseason since 1993, when the Phillies went to the World Series, Fox Sports reports.http://www.newser.com/story/38922/phillies-cruise-in-game-1.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 01 Oct 2008 16:22:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38806/ballpark-grass-is-artful-work.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAmid the pageantry sure to accompany tomorrow’s opening of the Major League Baseball playoffs, the increasingly intricate patterns mown into stadium grass is sure to catch fans’ eyes. Red Sox groundskeeper David Mellor pioneered the technique as an assistant in Milwaukee in 1993, the New York Times reports, and disciples coast to coast have taken up the torch.http://www.newser.com/story/38806/ballpark-grass-is-artful-work.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 30 Sep 2008 16:21:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38580/mets-live-another-day-phillies-clinch.html?refid=rss_all_defaultDesperate to stay in the playoff race, the New York Mets brought back Johan Santana early and he delivered, pitching a three-hitter that led them over the Florida Marlins 2-0 on a rainy day today, the AP reports. Nearly 2 hours later, the Mets pulled into a tie with Milwaukee for the NL wild card when the Brewers lost 7-3 to the Chicago Cubs.http://www.newser.com/story/38580/mets-live-another-day-phillies-clinch.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSat, 27 Sep 2008 19:39:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/33284/new-stadium-strikes-fear-in-mets-foes.html?refid=rss_all_defaultNational League teams visiting Shea Stadium this summer can’t help looking past the outfield with fear at the New York Mets’ new home, Citi Field, which opens next year. “It is the ballpark that could make the Mets financially untouchable,” Rich Hofmann writes in the Philadelphia Daily News , urging his hometown Phillies and others to get their swings in now.http://www.newser.com/story/33284/new-stadium-strikes-fear-in-mets-foes.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 24 Jul 2008 13:43:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32496/baseballs-all-miscreant-team.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWith baseball's All-Stars set to take the field at Yankee Stadium, Radar uses the occasion (and the fact that one is the tabloids' current fixation) to name its All-Morally Inept Team: C: Paul Lo Duca, then with the Mets, got the full New York treatment in 2006, when his affair with a 19-year-old became public. Divorce ensued. 1B: Yankees star Jason Giambi copped to steroid use before a grand jury in 2003, and apologized vaguely in '07.http://www.newser.com/story/32496/baseballs-all-miscreant-team.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 15 Jul 2008 15:45:21 CDT