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Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Notes: Lima time could come Sunday — Veteran righty may get call from Minors to start for Maine — NEW YORK — John Maine had just finished his bullpen session Friday when, clearly frustrated, the right-hander threw his cap into his locker. — The Mets announced that Maine has been suffering …
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Bob Herzog / Newsday:
Kaz gets little love but chips in with bat, glove — That noted baseball sage, 47-year-old Julio Franco, made the observation before Thursday night's game at Shea Stadium. "If they were really good fans, they wouldn't boo Kaz so much," the veteran said of Kaz Matsui, a favorite target …
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Mike's Mets
Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Wright delivers game-winning double — Third baseman's third hit of the night caps Mets' 16-hit attack — NEW YORK — The television replays don't lie, and apparently — somewhere within a frenzy of ecstatic New York Mets and exhausted Atlanta Braves — David Wright had the presence of mind to touch second base.
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Peter Botte / NY Daily News:
Mets' ending is all Wright — David's double in 14th wins it — If this truly becomes the year the Mets unseat the Braves after Atlanta's 14 consecutive division championships, they will look back on these 14 innings and know why. — The Mets overcame a four-run deficit in the seventh …
Mark Bowman / MLB.com:
Braves squander chances, fall in 14th — Atlanta loses four different leads to drop third straight game — NEW YORK — If the end of September arrives and the Braves aren't in their customary spot atop the National League East standings, they'll wonder just how different things might …
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It's Mets For Me
Tom Durso / Shallow • Center:
San Francisco Bray — Bonds Gets an Earful and an Eyeful, but It's the Phillies Who Make the Real News — POLICE OFFICERS, security officials, and television news crews saturated Citizens Bank Park last night, and while the expected abuse of Barry Bonds rained down all night long, there were plenty of surprises that deserve mention.
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Dylan Hernandez / Contra Costa Times:Battered and bruised: Giants lose game, Alou
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Baseball Musings
Chris Snow / Boston Globe:
Brains and brawn — Loretta's bunt sets up Ortiz to do damage — When Mark Loretta stepped to the plate in the sixth inning last night with two outs, two runners on base, and the game tied, he had no idea that what he was about to do had been done last summer, also by the No. 2 hitter …
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The House That Dewey Built
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Karen Guregian / Boston Herald:
Solid Schilling takes his fifth — Perhaps the worst part about Curt Schilling's night was it took him three tries to figure out how to retire Kevin Millar. — Millar touched up the right-hander for a pair of hard-hit singles before Schilling fanned his former teammate on a called third strike …
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Boston Red Sox
Dave van Dyck / Chicago Tribune:
A Royal blush — Jenks blows save, Sox lose 3rd to MLB's worst team — There's such a thing as home-field advantage and then there's what the White Sox had Friday night. Oddsmakers would call it about as sure a thing as you can have. — Not only had the Sox won more home games, 11 …
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Exile in Wrigleyville
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Bob Dutton / Wichita Eagle:
Glass: Change coming — CHICAGO - The anticipated shakeup in the Royals' front office could be just hours away. — Club owner David Glass reaffirmed his intention Friday to implement major changes in response to the Royals' disappointing performance in the season's first five weeks.
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Lone Star Ball
Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Notes: Guzman elects to end season — After surgery, shortstop should be ready for 2007 return — WASHINGTON — Shortstop Cristian Guzman was scheduled to have an infield session and test his injured right shoulder in front of manager Frank Robinson and general manager Jim Bowden on Friday afternoon …
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Steven Goff / Washington Post:
Guzman Will Have Surgery, Is Out for Year — The Washington Nationals brought shortstop Cristian Guzman to RFK Stadium early yesterday with the intention of testing his right shoulder with infield throws and determining whether he was ready for a minor league rehab assignment in New Orleans.
NY Daily News:
A-Rod bumped from cleanup spot — ARLINGTON - Alex Rodriguez was moved out of the cleanup spot last night but it wasn't a demotion; it was more like an accident. — As Joe Torre and bench coach Lee Mazzilli were discussing potential lineups before the game, Torre told Mazzilli …
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
In Control Through 7, the Yanks Just Escape — ARLINGTON, Texas, May 5 — As the hits kept coming, single after single in the Texas Rangers' half of the eighth inning, Aaron Small said he sat in the Yankees' dugout with one sickening thought: "What did I get started?" — Small's job had seemed easy enough.
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Bronx Banter
Mike Scarr / MLB.com:
Angels pitching staff roughed up — Santana allows six runs, nine hits over four-plus frames — TORONTO — Few things went right for the Angels on Friday. — Their starting pitcher struggled while the offense continued to exhibit signs of basic malaise.
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Bleed Cubbie Blue:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! — I walked into the vending-machine room here at work early this morning, and some of the crew that comes in to clean the building were watching CSN's replay of last night's game during their break time. — I looked up at the TV and saw that the tape was in the 9th inning, 0-0 score.
Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Quick return for Rangers' Wilkerson — Wilkerson plays a day after running into wall, bruising his shoulder — ARLINGTON - Outfielder Brad Wilkerson, who crashed into the left-field wall Thursday, said his concussion symptoms faded by early Friday. Wilkerson, who left Thursday's game early, was back in the lineup.
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Lone Star Ball
Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
IRL Race Is Out of the Running — The Indy Racing League won't be racing at Dodger Stadium, at least for now. — In searching for a location to return to Southern California, IRL officials met with the Dodgers about a race in the parking lot at Dodger Stadium.
ESPN:
Kendall suspended, Lackey fined … NEW YORK — As expected, Oakland Athletics catcher Jason Kendall's decision to charge the mound on Tuesday proved costly. — Major League Baseball on Friday handed Kendall a four-game suspension and fined him an undisclosed amount for charging Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pitcher John Lackey.
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Lyle Spencer / MLB.com:
Park looks to put Cubs in their place — Chicago (14-13) at San Diego (13-15), 7:05 p.m. PT — Home sweet home? Not so far. The Padres return to PETCO Park on Friday after a successful road trip hoping to make a stand with four games against the Cubs and three against the Brewers.
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