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LOS ANGELES - In three previous starts before Sunday, Vicente Padilla had started to regain the look of the big-game pitcher that the Dodgers had relied so heavily on late last season.
On Sunday, he left little doubt about how dominant he can be on
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Southern CA Press-Enterprise
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"I fought it all spring," Garza said. "Every bullpen I had to come in and do treatment with the trainers, kind of precautionary stuff, and I didn't want to do it because it hurt too bad."
The good news is the pain appears to have subsided. The
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...owners in NL-only leagues might want to stash him away until he is healthy. (Updated 04/24/2010). Dodgers right-hander Vicente Padilla has been put on the 15-day disabled list because his upper right forearm muscle is bothering him. Is it time to panic...
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...Opening day starter Vicente Padilla was placed on the 15-day disabled list on Saturday because of soreness in his forearm. Manager Joe Torre said the Dodgers planned to recall reliever Jon Link from triple-A Albuquerque to replace Padilla on the active roster....
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Los Angeles Times
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FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2009 file photo, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla listens to a question during a baseball news conference in St. Louis.Padilla accidentally shot himself in the leg in Nicaragua. Dr. Eduardo Reguera said Padilla didn't
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...Padilla, who revived his career in the Dodgers' run to the National League Championship Series, was treated for a minor self-inflicted gunshot wound in his right leg at a hospital in his native Nicaragua on Tuesday, his agent Adam Katz said. Katz described...
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Vin Scully Is My Homeboy passes on a La Prensa (Managua, Nicaragua) report that Vicente Padilla has been shot by his bodyguard; he was treated and released at Hospital Metropolitano.
Jon passes on a Diamond Leung piece indicating that the injury
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Philadelphia pitcher Chan Ho Park sprays champagne in the clubhouse after the Phillies won the National League Championship Series with a 10-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 Wednesday,
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PHILADELPHIA - The Dodgers have run into a wall for the second year in a row. It's Phillies red, and it's not going anywhere.
Philadelphia's defending World Series champions punched their ticket back to the championship round Wednesday night,
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By the bottom of the sixth inning, after Shane Victorino had deposited a home run deep into the left field seats, the Wednesday night party had begun.
"Very comfortable" was how Jason Grossman and Scott Goodman, both Upper Dublin, Pa., residents,
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PHILADELPHIA —
Ryan Howard and the defending champs are back in the World Series - proving last year was no fluke and looking even more dangerous this time around.
Jayson Werth homered twice, Shane Victorino and Pedro Feliz also connected and the
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Vicente Padilla. The fate of the Dodgers' season has come down to Vicente Padilla. And what's worst is that they have reason to be confident. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU NATIONAL LEAGUE
and 11.65 when you can go with Vicente Padilla!
Billingsley should ask
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The right-hander allowed just one run in 7 1/3 innings in Game 2 of the NLCS.
LOS ANGELES - Phillies starter Pedro Martinez stole the show, but Dodgers starter Vicente Padilla turned in quite an outing, too.
The one-time Phillies All-Star
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Philadelphia Phillies' Chase Utley (26) lets fly the throwing error that turned a 1 - 0 deficit into a tie game, opening the way for even more trouble as the Dodgers comeback to win Game 2 of the National League Championship baseball series Friday,
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Will the magical run of Vicente Padilla continue today?
I'm torn between how I want to remember last night's game. The loss was painful, sure, so ultimately the negatives will outweigh the positives, but I can't help but think there were some good
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Ryan Howard
Raul Ibanez
The announcers of last night's game pointed out that in the past 17 years, the team who won Game 1 of the NLCS was the team that went to the World Series 14 times. That's promising!
Vicente Padilla
Today's pitching matchup:
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LOS ANGELES - It is with a mixture of respect, disdain and maybe a little fear that the Phillies approach tonight's game against Dodgers starter Vicente Padilla. It is with a concerted sense of curiosity. "Which Padilla is going to show up?"
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WHEN WE LAST saw them together in Phillies uniform in 2005, it would be fair to say that Vicente Padilla, Jim Thome and Randy Wolf were in the right place at the wrong time. It would be another 3 years before the Phillies would win a world championship.
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ST. LOUIS - The Cardinals were done when Matt Holliday dropped that fly ball in Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers made it official Saturday night at Busch Stadium when St. Louis went out meekly against Vicente Padilla, losing, 5-1, in a game that was not
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ST. LOUIS -- Two years in a row now the Dodgers have taken a player who was so maddening to his previous team that it was willing to pay him to play somewhere else.
Two years in a row, that player has been instrumental in getting the Dodgers to the
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ST. LOUIS - Dodgers third base coach Larry Bowa had to give the character reference that got Vicente Padilla to Los Angeles. For Bowa, who managed Padilla with the Philadelphia Phillies, the negative comments coming out of Texas after he was released
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They are good when they have to be, lucky when they need to be, led by a wise man who knows October like he knows his bedroom closet.
"The one thing I know," Joe Torre was saying about his team, "is they're not afraid of anything."
In other words, who
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...certainly wrong in this case. The funny part will be this winter when someone gives him big money again. Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen Vicente Padilla is making a strong case for winning the Conn Smythe trophy this season…...
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ST. LOUIS – Beautiful day – evening? – for Game 3 of the Dodgers-Cardinals series at Busch Stadium. The press box windows are closed, apparently because of the cool temperatures – they’re expected to dip into the 40s between 6 and 7 p.m. local time.
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If I accidentally flip past TBS, I might watch it for a bit.
I’ll be flipping between here and TrueBlueLA
Plus the Wings play later on, too. The number of open windows on my computer is going to severly tax my mental capacity.
I just hope I can
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Top 3rd: The St. Louis fans have nothing to root for so far, as the Dodgers get a run in the first on a Manny Ramirez RBI double, and now in the third, Andre Ethier clocks one to deep right field to make it 3-0 Dodgers. Manny doubles, and James Loney
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Normal manager Joe Torre and Tommy Lasorda having an exchange prior to the game. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
The Colorado Rockies couldn’t emerge from the K-hole they fell into yesterday. After striking out 12 times in last night’s game, they struck
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8. Dodgers
Dodgers: Although Chad Billingsley (.502) and Hiroki Kuroda (.519) were the pitchers used here, swapping in Jon Garland (.502) and/or Vicente Padilla (.507) doesn't materially change their ranking. The Dodgers have depth, but their hopes
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close within a game-and-a-half of Boston, which was trying to sweep the Chicago White Sox in a four-game series at Fenway Park.
Texas Rangers pitcher Vicente Padilla works against the Oakland Athletics in the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday,
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Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Vicente Padilla works against the Colorado Rockies during the first inning of a baseball game in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.
Matt Holliday's sacrifice fly snapped a ninth-inning tie, giving the St. Louis
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Miami Herald
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Did anyone else read that Milton Bradley claims the Cub fans are yelling racist remarks at him? "You suck" isn't racist. Just like when Jeff Kent called him out for not scoring from 1st on a double and he immediately turned on Kent calling him a racist.
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LOS ANGELES -- Short hops, quick pops and backhand stops:
• There was Vicente Padilla, live in Dodger Stadium as the NL West race moves from Dodgers cruise to street fight, and you expected to see about two dozen suitcases surrounding him. He
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...get us to the postseason some rumors are just ridiculous. When translated from pitcher-language to batter-language, Vicente Padilla becomes “Shea Hillenbrand” (Marty beat me to the Shea reference at DT, but I swear I thought the same before getting to his...
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...ANGELES -- Dodgers manager Joe Torre said Wednesday the club has signed free agent pitcher Vicente Padilla, two days after the right-hander was released by Texas. Torre said that Padilla will pitch Saturday at triple-A Albuquerque before joining the Dodgers...
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...The Texas Rangers requested unconditional release waivers on pitcher Vicente Padilla on Monday. The right-hander was designated for assignment on August 7, after which the Rangers had 10 days to trade, release or outright Padilla to the minors. In 18 starts...
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...Ranger fans are saying "Adieu, adieu, to you (Vicente)." The facts are that the Texas Rangers organization has designated Vicente Padilla for assignment. Meaning that he will pass through waivers over the next 10 days, in which it is very unlikely that he...
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...Calif. — Vicente Padilla was given a wake-up call in June, when he hit Mark Teixeira twice in the same game and was placed on waivers the next day. The desired effect was to convince the right-hander that he needed to change his behavior on and off the field...
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Athletics go deep three times off Padilla, once off Feliz
OAKLAND -- Vicente Padilla allowed six runs in 5 2/3 innings and the Rangers lost to the Athletics, 7-5, at the Coliseum on Wednesday night.
The Rangers, in losing for the third
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Rangers starter Vicente Padilla made his first start since July 17, throwing 77 pitches in six innings for his eighth victory of the season.
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ARLINGTON — Vicente Padilla has been forced out of action three times this season.
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Texas Rangers Ian Kinsler kneels is safe at third base after hitting a two-run triple against Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Kuke French during the second inning in Arlington, Texas Tuesday, July 28, 2009.
Ian Kinsler drove in three runs, rookie
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Miami Herald
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Texas Rangers pitcher Vicente Padilla was diagnosed with swine flu, but is expected to make his next start on Tuesday against Detroit.
Padilla was scratched from his Wednesday start against the Red Sox due to flu-like symptoms. He rejoined the team
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ARLINGTON -- Vicente Padilla returns from Friday's positive test for swine flu to start for the Rangers on Monday against the Mariners.
He has been working out with the club and seems to be over his illness.
"Vicente, each day he's getting better,"
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Tests have verified that right-hander Vicente Padilla has swine flu, but for now he's still scheduled to pitch Tuesday.
KANSAS CITY — Texas Rangers right-handed pitcher Vicente Padilla tested positive for the H1N1 Type A influenza, which is commonly
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Dustin Nippert allowed one run while pitching into the sixth inning of a spot start for flu-ridden Vicente Padilla, and the Texas Rangers completed a three-game sweep of the slumping Boston Red Sox, 3-1 on Wednesday night.
David
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ANAHEIM -- Rangers right-hander Vicente Padilla left Wednesday's 8-1 victory over the Angels with a bruised right palm after attempting to barehand a one-hopper up the middle in the seventh inning.
However, after the game, Rangers manager Ron
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It's not a pleasant day for fantasy owners to be picking spot-start candidates, as the truth is, despite my rankings of 30 pitchers, I'd confidently recommend only about a dozen of the folks slated to start Wednesday. Case in point: Rodrigo Lopez ranks
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...PHOENIX -- Vicente Padilla loves pitching in Arizona. The Rangers loved the way he pitched on Wednesday night in breaking their five-game losing streak. Padilla had to be at his best against a guy who leads the National League in ERA, and he was exactly that...
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...29-July 5) with starts against the Angels and Rays. (Updated 06/25/2009). No information available at this time. : Vicente Padilla pitched seven sharp innings, Taylor Teagarden and David Murphy drove in a run each and the Rangers defeated the Diamondbacks...
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...-- A month has yet to pass since Vicente Padilla plunked Mark Teixeira two times at Yankee Stadium and the next day found himself on outright waivers. The decision by Texas Rangers management to dangle Padilla to the other 29 teams was spurred by a desire...
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Rangers pitcher Vicente Padilla won his fifth game as the Rangers' pitchers shutout the Dodgers.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Vicente Padilla worked five effective innings, Hank Blalock homered and the Texas Rangers beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-0 Friday to
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