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Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Notes: Traber will be called up — Nats closer Cordero awaits some save opportunities — MIAMI — Right-hander Ryan Drese was scheduled to have an MRI on Saturday to determine why he experienced soreness in his right elbow on Friday night, but it was postponed, and he will have the procedure done …
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Baltimore Sun:
Newest star gathering is at 3rd in NL — At this decade's start, the trio was hyped as the Holy Trinity of Shortstops. — Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Nomar Garciaparra. — Quickly, Miguel Tejada joined them, beginning his streak of five straight 100 RBI seasons in 2000.
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Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Losses Keep Coming For Nats — Drese Hurts Elbow, Season in Question: Marlins 5, Nationals 3 — MIAMI, April 14 — Less than two weeks into the season, it already seems destined to be a summer-long battle for the cellar. The Florida Marlins and the Washington Nationals play 18 games that represent …
Marty Noble / MLB.com:
Trachsel, Mets struggle vs. Brewers — Ohka notches first Shea Stadium win as bats fall silent — NEW YORK — It was the first game this season the Mets didn't play well enough to win. It was the second game this season they lost. — So now, 161-1 is off the table.
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Ronald Blum / sports.yahoo.com:
Milwaukee 8, NY Mets 2 — Tony Gwynn: Brewers & Mets: Early season surprises — NEW YORK (AP) — Tomo Ohka came up to the plate with the score tied in the fourth inning and two on, just after Chad Moeller's bloop near the right-field line popped out of Xavier Nady's glove for a single.
Chris Snow / Boston Globe:
Wells placed back on the DL — Lefty gets first of three injections in right knee — For now, at least, David Wells refuses to think that this could be the end of the line, the inevitable last stop in a 20-year major league career. — ''I've got to give this a legitimate shot," …
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Chris Haft / Contra Costa Times:
No free pass for the Giants offense — San Francisco's struggles at plate continue against the Dodgers — LOS ANGELES - Jason Schmidt was good enough to overcome most of his shortcomings Saturday night. The same couldn't be said of the Giants' hitters.
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Ted Brock / MLB.com:
Perez shines as Dodgers even series — Lofton triples home run in first start with Los Angeles — LOS ANGELES — The eighth-largest crowd in Dodger Stadium history — 55,132 paid — got a two-fer Saturday night. It got to see Odalis Perez corral the San Francisco Giants, 3-1, and also got ample opportunity to heckle Barry Bonds.
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Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Back injury will keep Casey out 6-8 weeks — Anyone who feels baseball is not a contact sport should check with first baseman Sean Casey. — The Pirates' first baseman will miss 6-8 weeks because of two fractures in his lower back, the team announced yesterday, in placing him on the 15-day disable list …
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Baltimore Sun:
For true read on O's finances, Angelos needs to open books — It was the baseball business equivalent of a hanging curveball. — Orioles owner Peter Angelos told a Washington radio audience Friday that his club lost $15 million last year. He threw that number out there and now I'm going to hit it out of the park.
Chris Snow / Boston Globe:
A weak accounting from Sox — They just don't line up well in shutout defeat — The writing was on the wall yesterday morning. Tacked up in the Red Sox clubhouse, just inside the door, it went like this: Stern CF, Cora 2B, Ortiz DH, Ramírez LF, Youkilis 3B, Snow 1B, Peña RF, Bard C, Gonzalez SS.
Pat Borzi / New York Times:
Yanks Cover for Wright, Then Rivera Blows Save — MINNEAPOLIS, April 15 — Mariano Rivera's cut fastball bored in to break Justin Morneau's bat, but a game-winning two-run single dribbled into right field, leaving Rivera as stunned as the Yankees behind him on the field.
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Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Pedro eyeing win No. 200 — Pedro Martinez has the baseball from his 100th win, which came Aug. 8, 199,9 against the Angels. Tomorrow, the ace tries to notch No. 200 and get another souvenir, when the Mets open their first series with the Braves. — Martinez said the milestone …
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Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Rangers' loss a four-gone conclusion for Padilla — OAKLAND, Calif. - Maybe it was blues legend John Lee Hooker, with an assist from Jimmie Vaughan, who put it best: — "Boom, boom, boom, boom." — That pretty much summed up Vicente Padilla's outing against the Oakland Athletics on Saturday in the Rangers' 5-4 loss.
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Struggling Izzy gropes for solutions — Not yet two weeks into the season, Jason Isringhausen already has walked into some strange places. — Isringhausen entered the eighth inning of a one-run game last Sunday at Wrigley Field. Instead of earning what would have been only his fourth six …
Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
Re-creating a classic — Before this story gets to the part where the kid lands his dream job because of a video game, some tired fingers and Bill Buckner, let's go back about 20 years. — On Oct. 25, 1986, Conor Lastowka was 5 years old. He lived in Virginia, and bedtime was long …
Murray Chass / New York Times:
New Season, New Closer for Red Sox and Others — TERRY FRANCONA sat in his hotel room in Arlington, Tex., on the afternoon of the third game of the season. He was mentally making pitching plans for that night's game with the Rangers. That was when Jonathan Papelbon, a 25-year-old rookie, became the new Boston Red Sox closer.
Associated Press:
Padres-Braves Preview — John Smoltz is familiar with starting a season slowly. — The hard-throwing right-hander looks to rebound from two difficult outings when the Atlanta Braves host the San Diego Padres on Saturday in the second game of a three-game series.
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