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Elias Says ...

By Elias Sports Bureau, Inc.
Special to ESPN Insider

Thursday, August 24, 2006

A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports: MLB • The Tigers (81-46 entering the game) were blanked 10-0 by the White Sox on Thursday. In the past 70 years, there were only two other games in which a team at least 35 games over .500 lost by double digits in a shutout. Atlanta beat the Reds 13-0 on the final day of the 1974 season, and the Brooklyn Dodgers prevailed over the New York Giants 10-0 on October 2, 1951 -- a day before Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run. (T ...

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