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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.
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Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:Perfectly bad baseball: Sloppy Rays aid Schilling, Sox
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Surviving Grady
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 …
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.
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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Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Injuries mar Cubs' win — The Cubs have suffered some heartbreaking injuries the last few years, to Mark Prior, Kerry Wood, Nomar Garciaparra and several others. — But having two players go down on the same play, as Derrek Lee and Scott Eyre did during the seventh inning of Wednesday's 5-4 win …
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Glenn Rabney / MLB.com:
Cubs 5, Dodgers 4 — Rookie Sean Marshall did everything he could to put his team in a position to win on Wednesday. But it took an eighth inning rally, sparked by back-to-back RBI singles from Michael Barrett and Ronny Cedeno, to tie the game then put the Cubs ahead for good.
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The View From The Bleachers
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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Baseball Musings
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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Baseball Musings
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 …
Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:
Stern catches some attention on way out — Adam Stern, fresh off his absurd snow-cone catch to end Tuesday night's game and save Jonathan Papelbon, sat on the black leather couch facing the clubhouse's flat-screen television, as ESPN's Web Gems feature played.
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 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 …
