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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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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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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.
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Wright Thompson / Kansas City Star:
Greinke takes step toward mound — For Zack Greinke, there's no schedule or projected return date. Just hope. — SURPRISE, Ariz. — Zack Greinke is alone, something that seems to both comfort and frighten him. The normally busy baseball facility has gone silent.
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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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Associated Press:
Yanks' Acosta dies in accident — NEW YORK (AP) — 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 …
Chris Haft / Contra Costa Times:
Bonds' day off no real concern — PHOENIX - Barry Bonds didn't play Wednesday night in the Giants' 10-3 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, but there was no cause for alarm, according to manager Felipe Alou. — Alou said that he and Bonds agreed to the rest before Tuesday's game.
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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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Tom D'Angelo / Palm Beach Post:
Girardi rips into team for blunders — CINCINNATI — Finally, Joe Girardi had enough. — "That's embarrassing,'' said the Marlins manager after a sloppy 9-8 loss to the Reds on Wednesday. " We can't keep making mistakes. Seventeen days in, we can't keep making the same mistakes.
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