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Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Beckett lights up Birds — Right-hander celebrates 26th birthday by dominating Orioles — BALTIMORE — The game face wasn't quite there when Josh Beckett first entered the visiting clubhouse on Monday afternoon. The right-hander noticed ace Curt Schilling slumped over on the couch …
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David Ginsburg / Associated Press:
Red Sox reach milestones in win over O's — BALTIMORE —The Boston Red Sox enjoyed another blowout victory over the Baltimore Orioles, only this time they enhanced their pleasure by reaching several significant milestones. — Josh Beckett allowed two hits in seven innings …
Mark Murphy / Boston Herald:
Pena answers call when opportunity knocks — Tremors from the Bronson Arroyo-for-Wily Mo Pena trade still reverberate deep within Red Sox manager Terry Francona. — Arroyo raced out to the hottest start of his career with Cincinnati, while Pena had a fly ball bounce off his glove …
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Associated Press:
Silva demotion temporary, team says — MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins made a move with their struggling rotation Monday morning, sending shaken right-hander Carlos Silva to the bullpen temporarily and promoting lefty Francisco Liriano. — Liriano, 22, is one of baseball's top prospects …
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Kelly Thesier / MLB.com:
Liriano joins rotation, Silva to 'pen — Rookie southpaw to start Friday against Milwaukee — MINNEAPOLIS — In an effort to get his confidence up and his sinker down, the Twins have decided to move Carlos Silva to the bullpen. — Rookie southpaw Francisco Liriano will start in Silva's place on Friday in Milwaukee.
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Kelly Thesier / MLB.com:
Lemon remembered fondly by Twins — MINNEAPOLIS - There was one member of the Twins clubhouse staff who carried a bit of a heavy heart on Sunday. — Longtime Twins clubhouse attendant Wayne Hattaway heard the news of the passing of his close friend and former Twins outfielder Jim Lemon early Sunday morning.
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Associated Press:
Padres-Diamondbacks Preview — The San Diego Padres look for a ninth straight road victory as they try to hand Arizona Diamondbacks ace Brandon Webb his first loss of the season when the NL West rivals begin a three-game series at Chase Field on Monday. — San Diego (22-16) …
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Associated Press:
He's a keeper — D'backs reward Tracy with three-year extension — PHOENIX (AP) — Third baseman Chad Tracy and the Arizona Diamondbacks agreed Monday to a three-year, $13.25 million contract extension through 2009 that includes a team option for the following season.
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Mark Bowman / MLB.com:
Davies to be placed on 15-day DL — Right-hander suffered strained right groin in third inning — ATLANTA — Kyle Davies will be placed on the 15-day disabled list. The Braves can only hope that his ailing right groin doesn't cause him to miss a significant amount of time.
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Joe Sheehan / Baseball Prospectus:
Prospectus Today — He's Baaaaaaack — So yesterday afternoon, instead of my usual routine of flipping through a number of ballgames, I had settled on the Yankees/A's tilt. I liked the pitching matchup, with one of my favorite young pitchers, Dan Haren, going up against someone who's …
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Peter Gammons / ESPN:
A's bring out Bonderman's best — When Jeremy Bonderman went to the mound in Oakland last Wednesday night the Tigers had won one of 18 games and were on their way to being anchor and talk-show host punch lines, not to mention lending themselves to a stockpile of negative footnotes to history.
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Alan Schwarz / New York Times:
Baseball Is a Game of Numbers, but Whose Numbers Are They? — Like no other corner of American popular culture, baseball communicates in numbers. From .406 (Ted Williams's 1941 batting average) to 755 (Hank Aaron's record home run total) to countless digits bandied about water coolers every morning …
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Mike Scarr / MLB.com:
Notes: Angels thinking pink — Colored bats and story behind them a hit with players — ANAHEIM — Major League Baseball broke out the pink bats on Sunday in support of the fight against breast cancer. — In a collective effort to raise money for the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation …
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Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:
Tomko, Dodgers take the opener — Three-run seventh inning key to Los Angeles win — DENVER — Brett Tomko pitched seven innings and scored the tiebreaking run with a headfirst slide into home, and the Dodgers held on to defeat the Colorado Rockies on Monday night, 5-4.
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Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Q&A with Stan Kasten — New Nationals president helped build dominant Braves … MLB.com: You were out of the game for the last two years. What did you miss about baseball during that time? — Stan Kasten: I wasn't running a club, but I was still involved with many, many people inside the game.
