August, 2020 | Heritage Sports

August

Cleveland Indians trade ace Mike Clevinger to San Diego Padres

The San Diego Padres, more a curiosity than a contender to start August, will exit the month with a stunningly revamped roster equipped to win the World Series now – and for many years to come. A feverish three-day run of acquisitions hit its apex Monday morning when the Padres acquired a legitimate No. 1 starter, Mike Clevinger, in a nine-player trade with the Cleveland Indians, the seventh and most significant player added to a club that’s won 10 of its last 13 matches and is a playoff lock in this pandemic-shortened season. The teams announced the trade Monday afternoon. […]

August

Possible Pirates trade chip Keone Kela placed on injured list

The Pirates announced Thursday that they’ve placed right-hander Keone Kela and infielder Colin Moran on the injured list. Kela heads to the 10-day IL with forearm tightness, while Moran is on the 7-day concussion list. Both moves are retroactive to Aug. 24. Righty Nick Mears and infielder Will Craig were recalled in a pair of corresponding moves. The IL placement for Kela significantly hampers the team’s ability to extract a meaningful return in a trade for the righty, who’d been the Pirates’ most obvious trade chip prior to Monday’s deadline. He can technically still be traded even while on the IL, but he won’t be entitled for activation […]

August

How to Become a Better Gambler Than Any of Your Friends

The first step in gambling better than your friends in the casino is to understand from the outset that you’re not going to figure out a sure thing. The number of people who are temperamentally able to hit the casinos are a tiny percentage indeed. And making money at poker is easier than making money at casino gambling. Sure, you could do it, but most people don’t want to do it badly enough. It would be easy to say that gambling in a casino doesn’t have much to do with money, but that would be obtuse. Let’s face it. When […]

August

Indians manager Terry Francona dealing with blood clotting issue

The Cleveland Indians may be without manager Terry Francona even longer than anticipated. Francona has already missed 15 matches with a gastrointestinal issue, and Chris Antonetti, the team’s president of baseball operations, disclosed Tuesday that the 61-year-old manager has also been dealing with blood clotting issues. Antonetti said doctors at the Cleveland Clinic inserted a stent last week to help Francona’s blood flow “around what was a clogged filter in his veins.” Francona is currently recovering in his downtown apartment and Antonetti said there is no timetable on when he’ll back. The Indians had ruled him out for at least this three-game […]

August

Texas Breeder Hangs His Dreams on Whiskey Echo

Whether due to luck or divine intervention, graded-placed winner Whiskey Echo seemed destined to become the first stallion Glynn Parent Jr. would stand at his 40-acre farm southwest of Houston. Parent had just started building a modest broodmare band and, after going through a breeding season of boarding bills and stud fees, decided owning a stallion might make sense for a homespun operation. He began his stallion prospect search in the $7,500-$10,000 claiming ranks at Lone Star Park but got the notion during his research to look in the $20,000-$30,000 price range, figuring the limited amount of racing offered because of the ongoing COVID-19 […]

August

Stephen Strasburg to have season-ending surgery

Stephen Strasburg’s season is over. The Washington Nationals transferred the star right-hander to the 60-day disabled list Saturday. Nationals manager Dave Martinez said Strasburg will undergo carpal tunnel surgery on Wednesday. Strasburg, last year’s World Series MVP, was first placed on the injured list Aug. 15 with carpal tunnel neuritis of the right hand. “Hopefully, surgery goes well,” Martinez stated. “The biggest thing is that surgery relieves anything he has, and he’s able to rehab and come back strong next spring training. Long-term goal, that’s what we’re hoping for.” Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo called it “a repetition injury” and he expects […]

August

Slugging A’s defeat D-Backs for eight consecutive home victory

Matt Chapman homered twice and Matt Olson also connected to help Sean Manaea finally earn his first triumph of 2020, and the slugging Oakland Athletics defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-1 on Thursday night. Chapman hit a solo drive in the first and a two-run shot in the eighth. Olson added a two-run homer in the fourth for the AL-best A’s (18-8), who have their best record over 26 games since the 1990 club started 20-6. Oakland has an eight-game home winning streak. Chapman notched his sixth career multihomer game and second this season, also doing so Aug. 10 at the […]

August

Truth about hot numbers – Roulette

You can find numerous attitudes about the game of roulette among gamblers. Most roulette players do believe in hot numbers, and this post is meant to expose the truth about that phenomenon. What Are Hot Numbers and What Do They Have to Do With Biased Wheels? A roulette wheel has 38 numbers on it, which means that the odds of a precise number coming up are easy to calculate (1/38, or 37 to 1). This, of course, assumes that each number has an equal possibility of coming up. Modern casinos use well-calibrated roulette wheels. They change them out regularly so they don’t […]

August

Blazers defeat Lakers in Game 1

After sinking a deep 3-pointer midway through the final quarter, Damian Lillard did a little dance and teammate Jusuf Nurkic pointed to his wrist. This was Dame Time, playoff edition. “Every game since we’ve been here has been a playoff game. So that prepared us for a game like this,” Lillard said. “It’s only one win. I’m happy to be here competing in the playoffs again, but we’ve got to move on to the next one.” Lillard had 34 points and the Portland Trail Blazers spoiled LeBron James’ first playoff appearance for the Los Angeles Lakers with a 100-93 triumph on Tuesday night in Game 1 of […]

August

Tobys Heart Favored for Bolton Landing Score

Eight 2-year-old fillies will line up to sprint 5 1/2 furlongs on the turf Aug. 19 in the $85,000 Bolton Landing Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, and impressive first-out winner Tobys Heart has been dubbed the even-money, morning-line favorite. Trained by Brian Lynch, who owns the Jack Milton filly in partnership with Terry Hamilton, Tobys Heart succeeded by 6 3/4 lengths in her first start June 4 while navigating the Bolton Landing distance at Churchill Downs. “She showed me she had some talent prior to it with her works, so it was great to see it produce that sort of performance in her debut,” Lynch said. […]

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Month

Cleveland Indians trade ace Mike Clevinger to San Diego Padres

Possible Pirates trade chip Keone Kela placed on injured list

How to Become a Better Gambler Than Any of Your Friends

Indians manager Terry Francona dealing with blood clotting issue

Texas Breeder Hangs His Dreams on Whiskey Echo

Stephen Strasburg to have season-ending surgery

Slugging A’s defeat D-Backs for eight consecutive home victory

Truth about hot numbers – Roulette

Blazers defeat Lakers in Game 1

Tobys Heart Favored for Bolton Landing Score

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