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Jim Baumbach / On the Yankees beat:
Winning ways — Amazing they got this game in. The way it looked just past 7 o'clock, I didn't know if my flight on Friday would get off the ground, let alone the Yankees and Tigers would play. It was bad, as you'll see below in my previous post. But they played baseball, and the Yankees were pleased for that, as you can imagine.
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Mussina Provides Some Relief for the Aching Yankees — DETROIT, May 31 — As rain pelted Comerica Park, Mike Mussina's body clock had already started. He had thrown most of his warm-up pitches in the bullpen, and he figured he had only three hours before he would wear down.
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Gil LeBreton / Dallas Star-Telegram:
What? Rangers lose out? That's a big Roger, again — Exactly one year ago today, beneath a headline that aptly labeled it "Grave Circumstances," the front page of the Houston Chronicle sports section carried a picture of a tombstone, symbolically burying the Astros' 2005 season.
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Tony Massarotti / Boston Herald:
It adds up to big win: Gonzalez, relief key — TORONTO - The Red Sox are wounded right now, flawed and brittle. And last night at Rogers Centre, operating with a makeshift crew, they repeatedly threatened to break into a million little pieces. — Instead, it was the little things that saved them.
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Bob Herzog / Newsday:
Milledge shows off his arm — He got his first hit in his major-league debut on Tuesday night. Last night, with his parents and two brothers in attendance, Lastings Milledge came up with two more firsts - one embarrassing the other exhilarating. — The outfield prodigy dropped …
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Johnette Howard / Newsday:
Why it's national pastime — This was more than just a classic pitching duel that lived up to the advance hype. For one night, anyway, this was baseball at its best, baseball the way it ought to be played rather than T-ball for some steroid-infused big boys.
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Craig Barnes / Sun-Sentinel:
Girardi is confident in marching out Kensing — · Logan Kensing likes being the Marlins' setup man, and manager Joe Girardi is becoming comfortable with him in the role. — Since Kensing gave up a two-run, walk-off homer to Tampa Bay's Russell Branyan on May 20 in a 4-3 loss …
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Mike Kiley / Chicago Sun Times:
Cubs itching to play cast-free Lee — Derrek Lee finally is rid of the cast on his fractured right wrist, having it removed and the wrist X-rayed Wednesday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. For the first time since he was injured April 19 in Los Angeles, the Cubs first baseman can intensify his rehab.
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Will Carroll / Baseball Prospectus:
Under The Knife — By June, Our Brook's Run Out of Song and Speed — June already? Changing the calendar is usually a good time to look back and see if we learned anything from the previous month or whether an extra month gives us enough data to make bigger trends more apparent.
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Dan Fox / Baseball Prospectus:
Schrodinger's Bat — Quantifying the Comeback … Who doesn't like a big comeback? — Even if you're not a rabid Yankees fan, you have to admire the tenacity and fight—not to mention the drama involved—when a team overcomes a 10-1 deficit in the third inning to come all the way back and record …
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Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
Escobar Signs Three-Year Extension — In spring training, Kelvim Escobar said, the Angels offered to extend his contract for two years and $15 million. He turned them down and said he would pitch his way to a better deal. — He did. After his performance in April and May convinced …
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Steve Henson / Los Angeles Times:
Gagne Ready for His Return — After the Dodgers' 9-3 loss to Atlanta in final game of trip, all eyes are on the team's closer, who will be in the bullpen tonight. — ATLANTA — The Dodgers finished a two-city trip with a one-sided defeat. They flew all night and must drag themselves to work today to begin a homestand.
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Greg / Faith and Fear in Flushing:
You Had A Bad May — By walking off the field freshly triumphant after 13 innings, the Mets continue to provide free advertising for the most relevant blog of them all, and everything is fairly wonderful, but I'm surprisingly bugged that in his six May starts, including last night's sublime pitchers' duel …
Dave Studeman / Hardball Times:
Ten Things About Los Angeles Baseball — The Dodgers and the Angels. One team plays in Los Angeles, the other plays close enough for government work. The one that actually plays in LA got its name from dodging trolleys in Brooklyn; the one that doesn't actually play in the city derived …
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Richard Durrett / Dallas Morning News:
Rangers restore power at home — Home-run production had slipped, but club belts 16 in 10 games — ARLINGTON - The Rangers' 10-game homestand provided a much-needed power surge. — They arrived at home a week and a half ago in the middle of the pack in the league home run standings.
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Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Stanton Sets Up Nats' Win — PHILADELPHIA, May 31 — Sometimes a save occurs in the eighth inning, not the ninth. Sometimes the more tenuous spot, the place where the game can be lost, comes before the closer even rises and begins to stretch his right arm, when the man in the game is the guy …
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Team takes issue with portrayal — Christian clubhouse story "over the top" — San Diego - Character, not religion, is the critical factor in the Rockies' chemistry, according to the players. That explains why so many players reacted negatively to the portrayal of their clubhouse …
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