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Chacon could be on the way out — CLEVELAND - It appears unlikely that Shawn Chacon will make his scheduled start Sunday, but that could be the least of his concerns. With Chacon failing to show any of the magic he had last season, his time with the Yankees could be coming to an end.
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Cashman Tinkers, and Resists Temptation — CLEVELAND, July 5 — The Yankees are needy right now, beset by injuries to their hitters and by poor performances from their pitchers. But as they seek to improve the team, they are operating from a position of weakness. — Other teams know what the Yankees want.
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Newsday
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:The Yankees Rebound, but Damon Falls to the Side
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NY Daily News
Ben Shpigel / New York Times:
METS 5, PIRATES 0 — Slow-Pitch Baseball as Hernández Quells the Pirates Softly — Cliff Floyd scored one of the Mets' five runs in the first inning in a 5-0 win over Kip Wells and the Pirates. Orlando Hernández earned the victory. — Orlando Hernández threw …
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Ben Maller
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Chris Snow / Boston Globe:
Selig up front about absence — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — About 10 minutes before last night's game a fan in the second deck of Tropicana Field yelled, ``That knee looks fine, Manny. Let's go. Despite the pleas of that fan and of Major League Baseball, it still appears Manny Ramírez …
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Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:The Crawford Show — Rays star steals spotlight vs. Sox
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The Soxaholix
Kat O'Brien / Dallas Star-Telegram:
RANGERS NOTES — Loe could move to bullpen — ARLINGTON - Right-hander Kameron Loe, who is on the disabled list with a right elbow bone bruise, played catch on flat ground from 90 feet Wednesday. He is scheduled to throw bullpen sessions Friday and Sunday, then begin a rehab assignment at Double A Frisco.
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T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:
Notes: Millwood to miss start — Right-hander out with soreness in his right arm's biceps — ARLINGTON — Kevin Millwood has been scratched from Friday's start against the Minnesota Twins because of the soreness in the biceps muscle of his right arm. — The Rangers have not ruled …
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Lone Star Ball
Mike Kiley / Chicago Sun Times:
Dusty's lifeline — winning — HOUSTON — A day after prompting speculation about manager Dusty Baker's future by saying he will evaluate the Cubs' situation during the All-Star break, general manager Jim Hendry tried to temper all the guesswork. — Hendry said Wednesday that Baker might …
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Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Hendry backs off Baker deadline — GM says evaluation of Cubs' staff could take days—or weeks — HOUSTON — General manager Jim Hendry met with Dusty Baker before Wednesday's game and discussed published reports that the Cubs' manager and some of his coaching staff could be in danger of losing their jobs during the All-Star break.
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Goat Riders of the Apocalypse
Juan C. Rodriguez / Sun-Sentinel:
Eight-run inning ties Marlins mark; Marlins 18, Nationals 9 — WASHINGTON — The Marlins completed a double play to end the fifth inning and retreated to their dugout, but they could just as well have converged on the RFK Stadium diamond and started shaking hands.
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Clark Spencer / Miami Herald:
Marlins win with ample support system — Yusmeiro Petit won his first major-league start thanks to an outburst by Florida's offense, which produced 19 hits and tied a team record with an eight-run inning. — cspencer@MiamiHerald.com — WASHINGTON - It looked for the longest time that Wednesday wouldn't be Yusmeiro Petit's day.
Paul Kelso / Guardian:
Scowling Scolari blames referee — It was always unlikely that Portugal would leave this World Cup quietly and so it proved last night as Cristiano Ronaldo and coach Luiz Felipe Scolari laid the blame for their semi-final defeat at the feet of the Uraguayan referee Jorge Larrionda.
Juan C. Rodriguez / Sun-Sentinel:
Elbow surgery will end Martinez's season — WASHINGTON — Carlos Martinez's season is over. — As the Marlins feared, the right-hander needs Tommy John surgery. Dr. James Andrews, who examined Martinez on Wednesday, will perform the operation today in Birmingham, Ala.
Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates Notebook: Burnitz, Randa amenable to being traded — NEW YORK — Neither Jeromy Burnitz nor Joe Randa has asked the Pirates for a trade. — But neither sounds as if he would be terribly troubled if one were to happen. — Check out Burnitz's typically candid response to a question on the matter yesterday:
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Bucs Dugout
John Branch / New York Times:
60 Years and 1,000 Tales Since 14 Were Ejected — Sixty years is a long time to stretch a memory. But Dario Lodigiani is certain that the reason that he and 13 other Chicago White Sox players and coaches were ejected from a game against the Boston Red Sox had nothing to do with a ventriloquist in the stands.
Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Soriano Says He Wants to Stay In D.C. — With half a season under his belt and the trade deadline less than three weeks away, Alfonso Soriano has a new take on his stint with the Washington Nationals: He wants to stay. — "I feel very good here, better than I expected," Soriano said in an interview yesterday.
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THE BELTWAY BOYS
Bob Dutton / Kansas City Star:
Twin killing in KC — With a big hit from Buck, the Royals win another series, beating red-hot Minnesota 6-3. — Credit the Royals with this much: It no longer seems rare when things go right. They no longer seem capable of threatening the 1962 Mets or the 2003 Tigers for sustained futility over a full season.
