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Sports: KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Its a common baseball refrain that elite starting pitching dominates in the postseason and power pitchers dominate most of all. That helps explain the glowing reviews for??Oakland??general manager Billy Beane when he traded for Jeff Samardzija and Jon Lester in July and the euphoria emanating from Detroit when David Price joined Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander in a made-for-October rotation. Now that the?? Tigers and Athletics??have been eliminated, the focus in the American League playoffs has shifted. Starting pitchers arent hanging around very long, and the relievers are doing the heavy??lifting. In the first two games of the AL Championship Series,?? Kansas City Royals??manager Ned Yost squeezed 10? innings out of James Shields and Yordano Ventura and received 8? innings out of his bullpen. His?? Baltimore Orioles??counterpart, Buck Showalter, would have been happy...
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:36:54 +0000

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