Sat, 01/23/2010 - 09:42 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Kansas City, Mo. -- The Kansas City Royals signed free agent outfielder Rick Ankiel Friday to a one-year contract.
The team did not disclose a sum, but MLB.com and The Kansas City Star said the pitcher-turned-outfielder will make $3.25 million and that the deal includes a mutual signing option on a $6 million contract for 2011.
Ankiel, 29, must pass a physical exam Monday.
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Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:27 by preet_20
San Diego, Aug. 21: A grand slam homer by Brendan Ryan and a four-hit performance by Joel Pineiro Thursday lifted the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5-1 victory over San Diego.
The Cardinals are 3-1 on a seven-game western road trip and have reached 70 victories for the season.
Ryan's homer -- his second long ball of the season in 272 at bats -- came in the second inning. Pineiro (12-9) took over from there, carrying a two-hitter into the eighth inning.
Pineiro eventually loaded the bases with two away in the eighth and was replaced by Kyle McClellan, who got David Eckstein on a grounder to shortstop to end the threat.
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Tue, 08/18/2009 - 11:06 by Jaspreet Virk
Los Angeles, Aug. 18: Rick Ankiel belted a two-run homer and Albert Pujols had a solo shot Monday to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Chris Carpenter (13-3) picked up his fifth straight win, allowing two runs on five hits with eight strikeouts over eight innings and the Cardinals won for the ninth time in their last 10 games.
Casey Blake drove in a run with a sacrifice fly and James Loney had an RBI single for the Dodgers, who lost for the fourth in their last five games.
Charlie Haeger (0-1) went seven innings in his first start of 2009 -- and his second major league start overall -- giving up three runs on five hits to take the loss.
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Wed, 08/05/2009 - 11:07 by preet_20
New York, Aug. 4: Albert Pujols hit a grand slam homer in the 10th inning Tuesday to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 12-7 victory over the New York Mets.
Pujols wound up 4-for-5 with two home runs and St. Louis scored eight runs over the final three innings.
The Mets held a 7-4 lead heading into the top of the eighth, but Pujols' first homer cut into the Cardinals' deficit. St. Louis rallied to tie the game in the ninth against Francisco Rodriguez, who suffered his fourth blown save of the season.
Kyle McClellan (3-2) pitched a scoreless bottom of the ninth but St. Louis went ahead in the 10th with a one-out rally.
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Sat, 08/01/2009 - 10:23 by preet_20
St. Louis, July 31: Matt Holliday doubled home the tying run in the eighth and then scored on a single by Rick Ankiel Friday, boosting St. Louis to a 4-3 victory over Houston
The Cardinals jumped a half game in front of the Chicago Cubs for the lead in the National League Central.
St. Louis had already come from one run behind twice in the game before doing it again in the eighth.
With one out, Alberto Arias (2-1) hit Albert Pujols with a pitch and Pujols promptly scored on Holliday's double -- the last of his four hits. Since being obtained by the Cardinals from Oakland last week, Holliday is batting .586.
Holliday moved to third on a wild pitch and put the Cardinals in front when Ankiel singled to left.
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Fri, 07/31/2009 - 10:11 by preet_20
St. Louis, July 30: Matt Kemp delivered a two-run, two-out single in the 10th inning Thursday that brought the Los Angeles Dodgers a 5-3 win over St. Louis.
The Dodgers halted a season-worst, four-game losing streak.
Los Angeles took a 3-2 lead in the seventh on a two-run double by Rafael Furcal, but the Cardinals tied it in the bottom of the inning on a homer by Rick Ankiel.
Ankiel, however, struck out with the bases loaded in the eighth to end a St. Louis threat.
Ryan Franklin began his second inning of work in the 10th, but was relieved by Dennys Reyes with nobody on and one out.
Reyes (0-2) promptly walked Andre Ethier and Casey Blake followed with a single.
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Tue, 07/28/2009 - 11:15 by surajdogra
St. Louis, July 27: Brendan Ryan was 4-for-4 with two RBI and Mark DeRosa added a solo homer Monday to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Chris Carpenter (9-3) pitched seven-plus innings and gave up one run, nine hits and two walks for St. Louis, which had lost five of seven prior to Monday. Rick Ankiel had two hits, two runs scored and an RBI for the Cardinals.
Losing pitcher Randy Wolf (5-5) allowed two runs on seven hits and two walks in six innings.
The Dodgers grounded into four double plays and left 11 on base. Rafael Furcal was 3-for-4 and drove in the only Dodgers run.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Fri, 07/24/2009 - 10:20 by surajdogra
Washington, July 24: Adam Wainwright held Washington to a lone run despite giving up eight hits Thursday and St. Louis defeated the Nationals 4-1 in a game shortened by rain.
The start of the contest was delayed by thunderstorms and the game was called in the seventh inning, just before midnight, after Skip Schumaker led off the top of the seventh by grounding out to second.
Wainwright (11-6) went the distance, striking out seven. He stopped Washington's two-game winning streak and helped bring the Cardinals their first win in four tries.
St. Louis boosted its lead in the National League Central to 1 ½ games over Houston and the Chicago Cubs.
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Sun, 07/19/2009 - 11:25 by surajdogra
St. Louis, July 18: Dan Haren went eight innings and drove in a run with a bases-loaded walk Saturday to help the Arizona Diamondbacks beat St. Louis 4-2.
Haren (10-5), a former Cardinal, limited St. Louis to one run on four hits with two walks and eight strikeouts to get his fourth straight victory. He retired 15 batters in a row at one point before issuing a one-out walk in the eighth inning, and improved his major league-leading ERA to 1.96.
Chad Qualls allowed a two-out, run-scoring single to pinch-hitter Joe Thurston in the ninth but then got pinch-hitter Rick Ankiel to fly out to center to end the game and post his 17th save.
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Sat, 06/20/2009 - 13:09 by preet_20
Kansas City, Mo. June 19: Ryan Ludwick highlighted a six-run third inning with a grand slam homer Friday, igniting the St. Louis Cardinals to a 10-5 inter-league win over Kansas City.
Colby Rasmus had four of the 14 St. Louis hits, scored twice and also had two RBI. The Cardinals won for the third time in four games.
It was a 1-1 tie going into the third, but Kyle Davies (3-7) gave up two singles and an intentional walk to load the bases before Ludwick hit his homer to left. Both Rick Ankiel and Khalil Greene hit solo home runs later in the inning.
Greene was making his first start at third base since coming off the disabled list. He had been put on the DL suffering from a social anxiety disorder.
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Wed, 05/06/2009 - 09:49 by Salinder Kumar
St. Louis -- St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Rick Ankiel was released from the hospital Tuesday, the morning after he crashed violently into the outfield wall.
Ankiel ran into the left-center field wall in the eighth inning of Monday's 6-1 loss to Philadelphia. He had an MRI exam Tuesday afternoon that showed a deep contusion and bruising of his right shoulder. The exam showed no structural damage and his playing status remains day-to-day.
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