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DENVER -- Major league batting leader Troy Tulowitzki has been placed on the 15-day disabled list by the Colorado Rockies because of a left hip flexor strain. The 29-year-old All-Star shortstop was hurt while running out a grounder at Pittsburgh on Saturday night. He was held out of the next two games before being placed on the disabled list, retroactive to Sunday. This is Tulowitzkis first trip to the disabled list this season but he has taken days off to rest his chronically tight legs. The leg issues date to 2008 when he tore the left quadriceps tendon. "That 08 injury really put me behind the eight-ball because when you completely tear a muscle, it never gets the same again," he said. "All the other muscles have to help support. I knew it was going to be a long road back from that injury. "I didnt know to the extent, but here we are six years later and its still giving me issues." Head trainer Keith Dugger said this latest injury is directly related to that tear. "He kind of tweaked the scar tissue around there and that little muscle on the side," Dugger said. "When you tear old scar (tissue) its never as bad as tearing a new muscle. Its a small strain. Its not healthy tissue that he tweaked." During the last off-season, Tulowitzki incorporated an extensive stretching regimen to help keep him on the field. He has continued the routine during the season, and he and manager Walt Weiss credit it as a reason he missed just six games before being injured again on Saturday. "Hes been able to stay healthy, and a big reason being the work he puts in every day," Weiss said. "He goes through a very tedious routine every day to warm up his legs and get ready to compete every night. The fact that he is so disciplined and never wavers from his pregame routine is one of the reasons why he has been able to stay relatively healthy." Tulowitzki is hitting .340 and is third in the NL with 21 home runs. 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It will be a rematch of their first-round clash last year when Japan defeated Canada 4-1 to reach the World Group quarter-finals for the first time in its history.Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) - Two national powers collide in the 47th annual Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl at the Georgia Dome, as the ninth-ranked Ole Miss Rebels butt heads with the sixth-ranked TCU Horned Frogs on Wednesday, Dec. 31. Ole Miss reach as high as No. 3 in the nation during the regular season, but crucial back-to-back losses against LSU and Auburn set the team back. The Rebels are making their 36th bowl game appearance (23-12 all-time record), and their third in three seasons under head coach Hugh Freeze. TCU had some qualms about the way things ended up in the first-ever College Football Playoff rankings, as the Horned Frogs finished on the outside looking in with an 11-1 record and one loss to Baylor on their resume. This is the first time TCU will play in the Peach Bowl, though the program is making its 30th bowl game appearance overall (13-15-1 all-time bowl record). Ole Miss and TCU have met on the football field just six times in their program histories, with this matchup slated to be the seventh. The Rebels own a 5-1 all-time lead over the Horned Frogs. Its the first time since the 1983 season the two sides will collide. Ole Miss was a well-oiled machine this season, especially on the offensive side of the ball. The Rebels averaged 30.4 ppg under the leadership of quarterback Bo Wallace, who had his name mentioned with the Heisman hopefuls for the better part of the year. Wallace threw for 3,085 yards and 22 touchdowns against 11 interceptions, passing for 257.1 ypg. He also carried the ball into the end zone five times. Wallace was a clear proponent of spreading the wealth through the air. The quarterback found three different receivers for at least five touchdown receptions, connecting with Laquon Treadwell 48 times for 632 yards and five scores. Treadwell missed the teams last three games with a leg injury, and wont play in the Peach Bowl. Vince Sanders and Cody Core each hauled in a team-best six touchdown receptions during the regular season. Like Wallace through the air, Ole Miss running game was also about utilizing multiple options. Jaylen Walton led the team with 583 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 98 carries (Wallace was the only player with more totes, rushing 107 times), while Jordan Wilkins added 358 yards on the ground. The Rebels rushed for an average of 167.7 ypg. While Ole Miss employed a strong offense led by Wallace, the team utilized a stifling defense that allowed just 13.8 ppg to opponents, headed by Mike Hilton and Tony Conner. The Rebels were able to limit the opposition to a mere 321.2 offensive ypg, and made sure strong challengers like Alabama (17 [points) and Mississippi State (17 points) were kept out of the end zone. Hilton led the team with 66 tackles on the season, while Conner was just behind at 64 stops on the year. Conner tallied a team-best nine tackles for loss, while Marquis Haynes wasnt far off the pace with 8.5 tackles for loss and a team-best 7.5 sacks. Ole Miss registered 90 tackles for loss and 25 sacks on the season as a unit, whichh will come in handy when trying to defend speedy TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin and a high-octane Horned Frogs offense.dddddddddddd Its an exciting time in college athletics, and we are thrilled to be one of the teams selected in the first New Years Six bowls, Freeze said. We are honored to accept this great invitation and take on an outstanding TCU team. Atlanta is a place that is very dear to our program, and its important to us that we represent our great university. And what a season it was for Boykin and TCU offensively. The quarterback, who also had his named mentioned among Heisman hopefuls earlier in the year, led his Horned Frogs to a dominant 46.8 ppg, which included 332.8 passing ypg with 33 touchdowns through the air. Boykin accounted for 30 of those passing scores, tossing 3,714 yards on a 60.5 completion percentage, and he only threw seven interceptions all season long. Boykin averaged 309.5 passing ypg in 12 contests played. He got it done in the run game too, gaining 642 yards with eight scores on the ground. But he wasnt the teams leading rusher - it was Aaron Green who topped the Horned Frogs at 854 yards and eight touchdowns on 111 carries. B.J. Catalon, who played in just eight games this season, led the Horned Frogs with 10 touchdowns on the ground. Catalon is questionable to play in the Peach Bowl with an ailing shoulder injury. The Frogs still averaged 209.3 rushing ypg this season. Josh Doctson and Deante Gray were Boykins favorite targets. Doctson topped the team with 59 receptions, and came up just short of 1,000 yards at 959, and also hauled in nine receiving scores. Gray chipped in with eight touchdown catches in 34 receptions. One of Boykins top targets (Kolby Listenbee) is questionable to play in the game with a concussion. TCUs defense played a strong 2014 campaign, and was especially solid down the home stretch in the regular season against Big 12 Conference competition. The Horned Frogs enter this game allowing just 20.3 ppg to opponents, which was boosted by limiting teams like Iowa State (three points), Texas (10 points) and Kansas State (20 points) to minimal scoring late in the year. Linebacker Paul Dawson had an absolutely dominant season for TCU, as he enters the Peach Bowl leading the team in tackles (128) and tackles for loss (18.5), adding in five sacks, four interceptions and three fumble recoveries. Between Dawson, Marcus Mallet (10.5 tackles for loss) and James McFarland (20 tackles for loss, six sacks), the Ole Miss run game should be well accounted for. Chris Hackett (six interceptions) and Sam Carter (four interceptions) will be spying Wallace to make sure the Ole Miss passing game goes nowhere. We feel like this is a playoff game, TCU coach Gary Patterson said. Ole Miss is a team that was as high as third in the nation, that play