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Relievers Boone Logan and Sergio Mitre combined to allow seven garbage-time runs.
Score Sheet 2011
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Oh yes, as his paid flacks will tell you, Ron gave the public option his garbage-time yes votes in the committee yesterday, but these came only after it was already obvious that it was going down.
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Nova pitched brilliantly in his first playoff appearance, throwing 6.1 strong innings and allowing two runs – both garbage-time scores in the ninth inning.
Yankees Cruise to 9-3 Win Against Tigers Daniel Barbarisi 2011
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The Giants lost the next two games, against the Eagles and Cowboys, and their offense mustered just one touchdown, in garbage-time no less.
A Study in Second Halves Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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Oh yes, as his paid flacks will tell you, Ron gave the public option his garbage-time yes votes in the committee yesterday, but these came only after it was already obvious that it was going down.
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The garbage-time chatter in the ESPN booth about top-10 preseason rankings was like the planning session to launch the campaign for 2010: The Year Nebraska Is Back.
Q. Bitch, what's happenin'? intertribal 2009
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For the Phillies, who theoretically own the league's best offense (it led the NL in runs in 2009), that's three straight shutouts -- and four in their last five games -- with only a three-run, garbage-time ninth inning during a blowout loss at Boston on Sunday preventing this from being a five-game scorless schneid.
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(Please, would foreign policy commentators stop pretending that Rice's garbage-time posturing on behalf of multilateralism meant anything -- it was too little, too late, and with no credibility or strong relationships to tap, such efforts as her would-be-legacy-bolstering try at Middle East peace were in the end utterly empty exercises doomed from the start.)
Steve Kettmann: View From Europe: Hillary Would Be Great As Madame Secretary 2008
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Not only has Florida's offense overwhelmed Louisiana State and Georgia in recent weeks, the team also held Georgia to one garbage-time touchdown Saturday.
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Few teams showed interest in Bell until the Sixers, looking for backcourt help, signed him with the idea of giving him garbage-time minutes in lopsided games.
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