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Jeff Zrebiec / Baltimore Sun:
Cabrera, Benson back in rotation — TORONTO // As expected, Orioles manager Sam Perlozzo announced yesterday that Daniel Cabrera will start today's game against the Toronto Blue Jays. — It will be the 25-year-old's first start since July 13 against Texas, a game in which he gave up four earned runs in 5 1/3 innings.
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Linda Robertson / Miami Herald:
Owner, manager boil, but don't overheat — A bizarre clash of egos ended with a truce, but not before the Marlins almost lost the best young manager in baseball. — Heated words on a super-heated summer Sunday took owner Jeffrey Loria and manager Joe Girardi to the brink, but they found a way to calm down and shake hands.
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Kevin Baxter / Miami Herald:Anger management — Joe Girardi's future as the Marlins …
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Dave Sheinin / Washington Post:
Reds Place Ex-National Majewski on Disabled List — On the day the Cincinnati Reds placed relief pitcher Gary Majewski on the 15-day disabled list with a sore shoulder, Majewski revealed he had been treated for shoulder tendinitis while pitching for the Washington Nationals this season.
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Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cards flex muscles — CINCINNATI — The Cardinals insisted throughout their recent eight-game losing steak they have the ability to heal in a hurry. Monday night at Great America Ball Park they offered perhaps their fittest performance of the second half. Better yet, it came against the hanger-on Cincinnati Reds.
StarTribune.com:
Detroit 9, Twins 3 — DETROIT - The Comerica Park scoreboard didn't explain half of the Twins' horror after Monday night's 9-3 defeat to the Detroit Tigers. — Francisco Liriano, Minnesota's rookie All-Star, is out indefinitely with what appears to be a left elbow injury.
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Kelly Thesier / MLB.com:Liriano injured as Twins fall to Tigers
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Peter Abraham / Journal News:
Yankees' pitcher establishes himself — The Yankees signed Chien-Ming Wang on May 5, 2000 and sent him to pitch for their Class A team on Staten Island five weeks later. The right-hander from Taiwan spoke no English and had never been to the United States before.
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Mets Acquire Ex-Bomber Ricky Ledee — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ricky Ledee is headed back to the Big Apple, this time with the New York Mets. — The backup outfielder was placed on waivers Monday night by the Los Angeles Dodgers and quickly claimed by New York.
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Digging Beyond Statistics in Order to Figure Abreu — Bobby Abreu was 18 years old, four levels from the majors, in the summer of 1992. He was the right fielder for the Asheville Tourists of the South Atlantic League, just another prospect in the Houston Astros' farm system.
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Randy Hill / Fox Sports:
Time to tip our caps to the Yankees — They've been credited with ruining baseball, but have no direct affiliation with Bud Selig, Scott Boras, Victor Conte or Chris Berman. — They're the alleged architects of a lopsided playing field, but have failed to win the World Series since Al Gore finally realized …
David Lennon / Newsday:
Piazza emotional on eve of return to New York — SAN DIEGO — His eyes were filled with tears when he departed Shea Stadium, and 10 months later, Mike Piazza fears the same emotion could overwhelm him again tonight in his return. — The standing ovations, the curtain calls, the video tribute.
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Ben Shpigel / New York Times:
Beltrán No Longer Just a Shadow of Himself — The children sitting in a classroom at Harlem RBI headquarters yesterday afternoon knew the basics about their special guest, Carlos Beltrán. They all professed to like the Mets more than the Yankees, and they said that center field was their favorite position.
Ted Miller / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Futility vs. A's spoiling season for M's — It was time for a statement. It was time for an effort on which to hang the final third of the Mariners' season. — That statement came in the eighth inning and was repeated in the ninth for good measure. Only it wasn't what the Mariners wanted …
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Spencer Fordin / MLB.com:
Patterson stays positive no matter what — Center fielder says he focuses on knowing his strengths — BALTIMORE — Sometimes, slumps last a whole season. Corey Patterson had one of those in 2005, and he's spent the first four months of 2006 erasing the memory.
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Kat O'Brien / Dallas Star-Telegram:
Eaton beaten after a frustrating first — ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Rangers' day was off to an inauspicious start when their first three hitters went down in order in the top of the first inning, and Angels outfielder Garret Anderson hit a three-run homer in the bottom.
