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Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Beckett hit hard in loss to Yankees — Right-hander has short night as Red Sox drop series opener — NEW YORK — The Red Sox found themselves on the wrong end of a Bronx bashing Monday night at Yankee Stadium, suffering such an early knockout punch in a 13-5 loss that Jason Varitek …
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Keep Your Sox On In Brooklyn
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Jack Curry / New York Times:
Phillips Finds His Stroke, and a Foothold at First — Andy Phillips hitting a three-run home run in the second inning off Boston's Josh Beckett. Phillips has three homers in his last four games. — Andy Phillips had 48 major league at-bats sprinkled across the last two seasons …
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Off the Facade
Mark Feinsand / MLB.com:
Yankees bats rough up Beckett, Sox — Phillips, Giambi hit three-run homers; Mussina earns eighth win — NEW YORK — Mike Mussina vs. Josh Beckett was supposed to be the marquee pitching matchup of this week's four-game series between the Yankees and Red Sox. — Not quite.
Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
MILL LOW AFTER FANS' HIGH-FIVES — June 5, 2006 — Willie Randolph reprimanded Lastings Milledge for celebrating his first major-league homer - a dramatic game-tying solo shot in yesterday's 10th inning - by taking a detour to high-five fans on his way out to right field to start the next inning.
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Associated Press:
Padres-Brewers Preview — The Milwaukee Brewers have picked the worst time to meet one the hottest pitching staffs in the major leagues. — The Brewers will try to halt an eight-game losing streak when they take on the San Diego Padres in the start of a four-game series at Miller Park on Monday.
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Ducksnorts
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Emily Fredrix / Associated Press:Uecker files restraining order against woman
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Brew Crew Ball
Tom Haudricourt / JSOnline:Notes: Yost plans to keep Turnbow as team's closer
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Cincinnati Reds
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Pujols lands on DL with 'moderate to severe' injury — ST. LOUIS — This is a much larger challenge for the St. Louis Cardinals: Albert Pujols will be out indefinitely with a strained muscle on his right side. — Pujols, last year's NL MVP and this season's major league leader in home runs and RBI …
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Will Carroll / Baseball Prospectus:
Under The Knife — The Tipping Points — With apologies to Malcolm Gladwell, there are tipping points in each major league season. The Astros were dead and buried last season. We kept waiting for the White Sox to turn into pumpkins and they never did. Did the turn of the page to June cause some tipping point to be crossed?
Baseball America:
Monday Morning Mock Draft — When Royals officials went to bed Sunday night, they still didn't know whose name they'd call with the No. 1 pick in the draft Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET. Insisting money wouldn't be the determining factor, they still were debating the merits of North Carolina …
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Bryan Smith / Sports Illustrated:
MLB Mock Draft — Royals will avoid p.r. nightmare, take UNC's Miller — Tuesday's Major League Draft may have a shortage of hitters, but what it lacks in talent it makes up for in intrigue as uncertainty has lingered at the top for months. When the selections are announced, here are the 30 names you should expect to hear first.
Zachary Levine / MLB.com:
A-Rod earns Player of the Month honors — Yankees third baseman wins award for seventh time of career — Alex Rodriguez has already missed two games in June with a stomach flu. His torrid month of May must have taken a lot out of him. — The Yankees' third baseman was named …
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Jenifer Langosch / MLB.com:
Nationals hold off Braves — Hernandez hurls six innings for first win at Turner Field — ATLANTA — Livan Hernandez's luck at Turner Field was bound to change. — Coming into Monday's game at Turner Field, Hernandez had never won in the Atlanta stadium in 10 starts.
Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Lester may have big plans for weekend — DETROIT — There was no official announcement from the Red Sox, but all signs point to 22-year-old Jon Lester making his major league debut Saturday in Fenway Park, when the Red Sox play a day-night doubleheader against the Texas Rangers.
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Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Yankees look within to solve injury woes — As the Yankees are linked to every high-salaried player on the planet, it's worth remembering that right-hander Shawn Chacon and left-hander Al Leiter were the team's biggest trade acquisitions before the July 31 non-waiver deadline last season.
Kevin Fiorenzo / MLB.com:
Johnson named NL's top rookie for May — Marlins rookie moves from bullpen to rotation to shine — At the start of the season, Josh Johnson was not a part of the picture when the Marlins put together their starting rotation. Two months later, Johnson has proven to be an indispensable piece of that rotation.
Dan Gelston / Associated Press:
Former umpire Eric Gregg fighting for his life after stroke — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Former major league umpire Eric Gregg was fighting for his life Monday, a day after a stroke that left him with little hope of any significant recovery, his son said. — "I think we're running out of time right now," Kevin Gregg said.
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The Catbird …
