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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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Dodger Thoughts
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Amanda Branam / MLB.com:
Dodgers to option Hamulack, recall Kuo — Moves are intended to improve bullpen performance — LOS ANGELES — In an attempt to address the problems surrounding their struggling bullpen, the Dodgers have decided to option reliever Tim Hamulack to Triple-A Las Vegas and plan to recall Hong-Chih Kuo from Las Vegas.
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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Jeff Goldberg / Hartford Courant: Schilling Has New Pitch — DETROIT — Curt Schilling said the game plan was perfect.
Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:Motown hit — Two-run homer by Youkilis in ninth gives Red Sox win
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Surviving Grady
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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Reverend Redbird
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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
Scott Merkin / MLB.com:
Notes: Guillen drills his troops — Thome likely out until Tuesday — CHICAGO — If the current members of the White Sox have not yet heard Ozzie Guillen's message for success, preached to the team in winning times or recent frustration, then they clearly aren't listening.
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South Side Sox
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R.B. Fallstrom / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Pujols injured in Cards' loss to Cubs — Chicago has been playing without its All-Star first baseman for more than a month. The Cardinals are concerned they might be without theirs for a while, too. — Aramis Ramirez hit a grand slam and St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols strained …
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
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R.B. Fallstrom / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:Reyes optioned as Cards bring up Timo Perez
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The Catbird …
Fox Sports:
Game Trax | Box Score | Play by Play | Depth Chart | Head-to-Head — PLAY BY PLAY — TOP OF 1ST — Hits: 2 — Errors: 0 — Cubs first. — Pierre grounded out, third baseman Rolen to first baseman Pujols. — Womack singled to left.
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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.
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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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.
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
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
Sports Illustrated:
Yankees put Rasner on DL, recall Smith — BALTIMORE (AP) -The New York Yankees placed right-hander Darrell Rasner on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with soreness in his pitching shoulder, and recalled left-hander Matt Smith from Triple-A Columbus. — Rasner made his Yankees debut Thursday …
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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
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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