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Elias Says ...

By Elias Sports Bureau, Inc.
Special to ESPN Insider

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports: MLB • A pair of rookie pitchers started division series games on Wednesday: Boof Bonser (at the Metrodome) and John Maine (at Shea Stadium). It was the 10th time in major-league history that two rookie pitchers started postseason games on the same day. Maine Bonser The Twins sent Bonser to the mound for Game 2 after dropping the series opener. No rookie pitcher had started the second game of a best-of-five series with his ...

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