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Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:
Pauley wants seconds: Will face Yanks in NY — DETROIT - David Pauley will be given another chance to show the Red Sox he belongs in the major leagues, when he starts Tuesday against the New York Yankees in the Bronx. — Pauley, who was called up from Double-A Portland on Wednesday …
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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Motown hit — Two-run homer by Youkilis in ninth gives Red Sox win — DETROIT — He had struck out twice, lined out to first, and committed an embarrassing error on a routine throw to first base. — "Rough day," Kevin Youkilis said. "I was struggling. I was frustrated."
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Surviving Grady
Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:
Youkilis blunders, then thunders to tame Tigers: First baseman's 2-run jack in 9th rallies Sox — DETROIT - Terry Francona has watched players deal with adversity for years, but he learned something about Kevin Youkilis last night. — The Red Sox manager spied his first baseman's return …
Jeff Goldberg / Hartford Courant:
Schilling Has New Pitch — DETROIT — Curt Schilling said the game plan was perfect. — Knowing he was facing a team that feasts on fastballs, Schilling unveiled a sinking two-seamer. Pitching against an unfamiliar lineup, Schilling made it work, striking out eight in six innings …
Ian Browne / MLB.com:Keeping up with the Joneses — Youkilis takes Tigers' closer deep …
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The Baseball Desert
Matthew Leach / MLB.com:
Pujols out with strained right oblique — Cardinals slugger injured on play at first base — ST. LOUIS — Albert Pujols was removed from the Cardinals' game on Saturday against the Cubs due to strained right oblique muscle. — With one out in the top of the second inning …
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Jeff Pearlman / Slate:
Pee No Evil — Why are sportswriters pretending baseball's steroids era is over? — It's easy to understand the media's love-fest with Albert Pujols. The St. Louis Cardinals slugger crushes baseballs into the outer realms. And more important in the wake of the BALCO fiasco, he has yet to be tainted by evidence of steroid use.
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Straight Flushing
Amanda Branam / MLB.com:
Notes: Starter, reliever to swap roles — Lefty Perez returns to rotation while Seo shifts to bullpen — LOS ANGELES — Dodgers manager Grady Little has decided to move Jae Seo from the starting rotation to the bullpen, and Seo's replacement is a very familiar face.
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Todd Zolecki / Philly.com:
Key hits help Phils down Dodgers — LOS ANGELES - It looked like the same sad script the Phillies had followed since the middle of May: — The starting pitcher doesn't make it to the sixth inning. The offense cannot find a clutch hit to save a life. — But then the Phillies' offense provided …
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Phillies Nation
Associated Press:
Padres' Estes will miss season after elbow surgery — PITTSBURGH — San Diego Padres left-hander Shawn Estes decided to have reconstructive left elbow surgery after consulting with three doctors and will miss the rest of this season and possibly the start of the 2007 season.
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Gaslamp Ball
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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
Bray Arrives From Minors On a Mission — MILWAUKEE, June 2 — Bill Bray thought, like always, that a day of rest would benefit him, but the left-handed reliever learned Friday there's a downside to arriving in the major leagues on a day off. — "I've definitely got the butterflies going in my stomach," Bray said.
Carrie Muskat / MLB.com:
Trainer clarifies severity of Prior's injury — 'Tear' not significant; righty on track for Saturday rehab start — ST. LOUIS — Chicago Cubs pitcher Mark Prior has a strained right shoulder, which could also be called a partial tear, said athletic trainer Mark O'Neal. That's what the Cubs have said the entire time.
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A Cub Fan Rants
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Winter Olympics / Chicago Sun Times:Cubs maintain Prior's pain came from strain
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Bleed Cubbie Blue
Bob Dutton / Kansas City Star:
Struggling KC scoreless in Seattle — SEATTLE — Rookie Bobby Keppel threw six shutout innings Friday night in his first big-league start, and all it did was keep the Royals even against Seattle veteran Jamie Moyer. — "Six strong," Keppel agreed, shrugging.
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Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates Notebook: Standings illustrate huge climb ahead — Sean Casey opened his morning newspaper yesterday and turned to a page he previously considered off limits. — "Yeah, I actually checked out the standings," he said with a big laugh. "I get the feeling that, hopefully, we're climbing up and wanted to see where we were.
Mark Bowman / MLB.com:
Braves fall to D-Backs in Game 1 — ATLANTA — Atlanta's offense couldn't find an answer for Arizona starter Enrique Gonzalez, as he earned his first Major League win with a 4-2 Diamondbacks victory in Game 1 of Saturday's day-night doubleheader at Turner Field.
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Talking Chop
Mark Bradley / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Cox, not GM, is irreplaceable — Bobby Cox, 65, is the best manager in baseball. John Schuerholz, 65, is the best GM. Each has done such surpassing work as to render himself indispensable. Today's topic, then, is the baseball equivalent of the old who-wins-if-Superman-and-The- Incredible-Hulk-get-into-a-fight brainteaser.
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Rockies keep their iPods on the ball Studying video compilations of at-bats is a high-tech hit — The boys of summer have a new toy of summer. — The Rockies have incorporated the iPod into their hitters' video work, a harbinger of the technological advances they believe will also help …
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Purple Row
NY Daily News:
Ya gotta glove it — Yanks trying out kid whose 'catch' helped 'em win playoff in '96 — The Yankees' angel in the outfield has a shot at earning his wings. — In a twist of fate even Hollywood couldn't dream up, the former Little Leaguer who stole a home run for the Bronx Bombers …
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
Sam Mellinger / Kansas City Star:
Zack is back — Greinke looks sharp on and off the field — WICHITA — The best of Zack Greinke wasn't the rising 94 mph fastball or the hooking curve or even the mechanics that one Royals official said were the best he's ever had. — No, the best of Zack Greinke's first rehab start is now …
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T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:
Notes: Pitching staff not yet settled — Hairston welcomes trade to the Rangers — CHICAGO — Reliever John Wasdin joined the Rangers on Friday, but the pitching staff moves aren't over yet. — The Rangers are close to having to make a decision on pitcher Antonio Alfonseca …
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Lone Star Ball
