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		<title>&#8220;Yo, Adrian&#8221; &#8212; Carpenter Nails The Phillies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jayson Werth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Morse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rizzo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Louis Cardinals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Manuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Carpenter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Phillies Phans this is the apocalypse. Chris Carpenter held the &#8220;can&#8217;t miss&#8221; Ashburns to just three hits, and the upstart Cardinals went on to take the NLDS three games to two in a sparkling 1-0 win in Philadelphia, ending the Phillies post-season dream of another October World Series appearance. Phillies fans were so disappointed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why The Cubs Stink</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alfonso Soriano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Marmol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcos Mateo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Quade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Dempster]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s not a game that goes by without the Nationals partisans of Section 1-2-9 talking at length about the Nationals &#8212; why they win, why they lose, and what pieces they need to put in place to become champions. Yesterday&#8217;s heroic 5-4 win over the Chicago Cubs proved the exception: there were enough Cubs fans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Werth Rides The Ponies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jayson Werth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rizzo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Nationals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defense]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[philadelphia phillies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Blanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livan Hernandez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power Rankings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilson Ramos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Nats&#8217; 7-4 victory over Philadelphia on Tuesday night had to be the most satisfying win of the season. Not only did the Nationals rack up a badly needed victory (coming off a two-of-three series in New York), but the team finally seemed to be doing everything right. While Tuesday night&#8217;s hero was Jayson Werth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Becoming A Grudge Match</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/baseball/its-becoming-a-grudge-match</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Playoffs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[philadelphia phillies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pitching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[san francisco giants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Rollins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Burrell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Halladay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Lincecum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Philadelphia Phillies-San Francisco Giants NLCS is now a nasty confrontation &#8212; as an angry and glaring Roy Halladay and an equally irritated Pat &#8220;the Bat&#8221; Burrell exchanged looks and words in the first inning of Game Five. Halladay stared in at umpire Jeff Nelson and Burrell noticed: &#8220;What are you looking at?&#8221; he yelled. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nats Bats (And Lannan) Scuttle Pirates</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/john-lannan/5023</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ian Desmond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivan Rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lannan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Drew Storen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaby Sanchez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jackie Robinson Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Heyward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Leake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pedro Alvarez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pudge Rodriguez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hitting of Ivan &#8220;Pudge&#8221; Rodriguez and the stellas pitching of John Lannan paced the Washington Nationals to a 9-2 victory over the Pirates at PNC Park on Saturday. Rodriguez led the Nats&#8217; fifteen hit attack, with an opposite field home run, while John Lannan pitched seven complete &#8212; giving up only five hits. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snakes: Bitten</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/chicago-cubs/snakes-bitten</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ivan Rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livan Hernandez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Nationals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicago cubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national league]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national league central]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfonso Soriano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Diamondbacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Hendry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Theriot]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ted Lilly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday night in Phoenix, Livan Hernandez showed once again why he remains the acknowledged ace of the Washington Nationals staff. InÂ  7.1 innings of solid in-and-out and up-and-down pitching, Hernandez surrendered just five hits to his former teammates in Arizona and the Nationals notched a much-needed road win 3-1. &#8220;[Hernandez] was outstanding,&#8221; Nats skipper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stammen Buries The Hatchets</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/atlanta-braves/stammen-buries-the-hatchets</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adam Dunn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Strasburg]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Craig Stammen, just recalled from the Nats Syracuse Triple-A farm club, threw seven innings of brilliant baseball and super sub Alberto Gonzalez went 4-4 as the skidding Nats ended their five game losing streak with a 7-2 win in Atlanta. Stammen finally mastered what had been bothering him in successive starts prior to his demotion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John, Paul, George, Ringo . . . And Jim</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/cincinnati-reds/john-paul-george-ringo-and-jim</link>
		<comments>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/cincinnati-reds/john-paul-george-ringo-and-jim#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Milwaukee Braves]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Maloney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oddly (but not unreasonably), the name Jim Maloney has always been associated in my mind with &#8220;The Dave Clark Five&#8221; &#8212; the North London rock band that, for a short time, gave &#8220;The Beatles&#8221; a run for their money. The DC5, as they were called, had a number of hits (&#8220;Glad All Over,&#8221; &#8220;Bits and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strasburg and Harper&#8217;s &#8220;Stuff&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/hitting/strasburg-and-harpers-stuff</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bryce Harper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Custom Card Blog, a whole raft of photo shop experts and baseball fanatics spend at least some of their time creating cards of current stars &#8212; and phenoms &#8212; using old time Topps cards as models for new sets. The 1968 Topps &#8220;tribute&#8221; design shown above (and presented last October) is accompanied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E5, BS(2); E6 (3)</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/chicago-cubs/e5-bs2-e6-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Capps]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ian Desmond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lance Berkman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milt Pappas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Halladay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not that the Washington Nationals have slipped back into their old 2009 ways (they haven&#8217;t, at least not completely &#8212; and at least not yet), it&#8217;s that their sloppy defensive play of the last two days (and their successive losses to the forlorn Houston Astros), are a cautionary note for the future. The Nats [...]]]></description>
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