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Starting Nine: D-backs strike Gold, twice

1. Down 3-2 to the Orioles in the ninth, D-backs first baseman Paul Goldschmidt hit a solo home run to send the game to extras. It was his fifth ninth-inning dinger this season -- tops in the Majors. And then, in the bottom of the 11th, Goldschmidt came up again with the score tied, and ...

2. Here's the Cardinals' Adam Chambers sending his team home with a base-knock against the Pirates in the 14th.


3. The Mariners beat the Rays, 5-4, on Tuesday night and history was made. The M's Brad Miller and Rays' Ben Zobrist became just the second opposing leadoff hitters (Chuck Knoblauch and Tony Phillips in '92) to homer in their first at-bat and then again later in the game. You mad, Chuck


4. So, Yu Darvish can also kind of pitch with his left hand. That's just unfair.

5. The D-backs' walk-off celebration involves buckets of gum, ice water, towels and trap doors?

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6. Jay Buhner turned 49 yesterday, so we went back in time to look at his unbelievable catch.

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7. Mike Trout graduated high school in 2009 and his old stomping grounds are already naming a baseball field after him. What have you done with your life?


8. This Astros fan proposed to his girlfriend at Minute Maid Park, but put the ring on the wrong finger -- does it count?

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9. Watch this woman sing "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in the voice of 19 different divas. Wait for the Celine Dion. It's beautiful.