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Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:
Perfectly bad baseball: Sloppy Rays aid Schilling, Sox — Major League Baseball advised the umpiring crew prior to the ongoing series at Fenway Park to keep an eye out for any signs of recurring bad blood between the Red Sox and Tampa Bay Devil Rays, two teams who have had a series of skirmishes over the past seven years.
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Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Comments are not a hit with Kazmir — Tampa Bay lefthander Scott Kazmir didn't care for comments Curt Schilling made this week on WEEI radio, when Boston's ace said the reason the Red Sox and Devil Rays have had numerous bench-clearing incidents is because of Kazmir ''hitting multiple batters every time he threw against us.
NY Daily News:
Cox again has ace in hole — Hudson helps throw Mets off — When you're Bobby Cox, proud of all the Atlanta Braves have stood for these past 14 seasons and uncompromisingly loyal to the players who made it so, it doesn't get much better than this. — Before his Braves provided another reminder …
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NY Daily News:
After botching grounder, Wright keeps himself grounded — The fans at Shea didn't boo David Wright yesterday, not really, not the way they can when they realize the game has gone very wrong and someone has to take the blame. Right now, and into the foreseeable future, another week maybe …
Mark Herrmann / Newsday:
Never Wright off Braves — Hudson, three errors by third baseman lift rival Mets can't beat — The Mets just didn't have enough health, enough hitting, enough fielding or enough luck to get through three days against the Braves. That only made the Mets realize how amazing it is that a team can go 14 years without letting up.
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Mike Scarr / MLB.com:
Angels place Colon on 15-day DL — Hurler has inflammation in right shoulder — MINNEAPOLIS — The Angels placed Bartolo Colon on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday with inflammation in his right shoulder, retroactive to Sunday. — Right-hander Hector Carrasco will take Colon's spot …
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Dick Kaegel / MLB.com:
Greinke begins his return to baseball — Right-hander working out at Surprise, Ariz., complex — SURPRISE, Ariz. — Zack Greinke had thrown a bad bullpen session at Spring Training and he went for a talk with Royals manager Buddy Bell in his office. — "People assumed that he was going to yell at me," Greinke said.
Bob Klapisch / NorthJersey.com:
Zambrano looks clueless in defeat — NEW YORK — Welcome to Victor Zambrano's world, where winning streaks and early April optimism go to die. — Gone, in five miserable innings, was the Mets' perfect aura, the one that turned a midweek series with the Braves into a miniature October showdown.
Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Notes: Hernandez placed on DL — Sore back sidelines starting second baseman; Matsui recalled — NEW YORK — The pained look on Anderson Hernandez's face said it all. — "Not good," Hernandez said, wincing. "Bad." — Hernandez was placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday …
Glenn Rabney / MLB.com:
Cubs rally past Dodgers — Chicago wins, but loses Lee and Eyre in the process — LOS ANGELES — After the pitching clinics that were put on during the first two games of this series, Wednesday's 5-4 Cubs victory can't quite compare, but in a way, it may have revealed an important part …
Sarah Talalay / Sun-Sentinel:
Development OK'd for Hialeah land; area potential ballpark site — · With the focus of stadium talks now on Hialeah, the city and the Marlins got a boost Wednesday when Miami-Dade County Commissioners agreed to allow development on a swath of land in the western portion of the city.
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FishStripes
Bryan Burwell / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Boos, booze make for an ugly combo in Busch bleachers — The new spin coming from the mouths of some of the grumbling louts who have turned certain parts of Busch Stadium's bleachers into an X-rated sewer is that they are all a part of some slowly emerging class struggle.
Associated Press:
Yanks minor league manager killed in crash — NEW YORK —New York Yankees minor league manager Oscar Acosta and team official Humberto Trejo were killed in a car accident in the Dominican Republic, the New York Post reported Thursday. — Acosta, the manager of the Gulf Coast Yankees of the Rookie League …
Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com:
Two Tribe relievers exit injured — Miller likely bound for DL; Betancourt's status uncertain — BALTIMORE — Two Indians relievers were casualties of the sixth inning of Wednesday's 18-9 loss to the Orioles, and at least one is likely headed to the disabled list.
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Let's Go Tribe
Jim Baumbach / Newsday:
Jays leave Randy blue — Unit gives up seven runs on nine hits in 3 1/3 innings — TORONTO — File this one under the category, Worst-Case Scenario. — Seemingly everything that could go wrong for the Yankees happened last night, starting with their ace. Randy Johnson couldn't do anything right.
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:Johnson Doesn't Know What Hit Him — TORONTO, April 18 …
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Paul Hagen / Philly.com:
Phillies' offense relying on home runs — CHUCK DIGS the long ball. — Still, even manager Charlie Manuel knows that the Phillies have to find a way to score other than knocking fat pitches over the fence. And that's tempered the euphoria of the 4-2 road trip that ended Sunday.
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Phillies Nation
