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Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Calling for reinforcements — Struggles prompt a team meeting — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Red Sox conducted a closed-door meeting prior to last night's game, described by one uniformed member as ``reinforcement" the team can turn around its fortunes. — It didn't help: The Sox lost …
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Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
No relief as Sox collapse in 9th — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Remember when Red Sox Nation was ready to panic in the streets? It was premature. But maybe now . . . When you can no longer rely on Jonathan Papelbon to close out a one-run game; when you can no longer depend on Manny Ramírez …
Kevin Druley / MLB.com:
Red Sox try to end three-game slide — Boston (65-46) at Kansas City (39-73), 8:10 p.m. ET — Stop the skid. — That will be the Red Sox's mission as they look to end a three-game losing streak Wednesday night at Kauffman Stadium. — Despite Tuesday's loss, Boston is 3-1 against Kansas City in 2006.
Discussion:
The Joy of Sox
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Johnson's No-Hitter Becomes Nail-Biter — Bobby Abreu (53) was greeted by Derek Jeter, center, and Alex Rodriguez after a fifth-inning homer. It was Abreu's first homer as a Yankee. — If Randy Johnson opened a pitching record book, he would see his name everywhere.
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Bronx Banter
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Sam Borden / NY Daily News:
That's Mo like it for Yankees — Bounces back to save Unit 'W' — CHICAGO - This was not Mariano Rivera's night, was it? It was Randy Johnson's. — Or at least it was supposed to be. — Somehow, in a game in which Johnson took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and the Yankees once led …
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
After Limping in the Outfield, Damon Leaves After Three Innings — Give the Chicago White Sox' fans credit: They are observant. When the Yankees' Johnny Damon moved gingerly around center field for three innings on Wednesday, the fans in the bleachers noticed. — "The fans were getting on me — 'Why are you limping?' "
Carrie Muskat / MLB.com:
Baker: Cubs are not out of it yet — Chicago manager won't talk about the future, just this season — MILWAUKEE — The Cubs are playing better, but it has nothing to do with the pressure being off and them conceding the season. There may be 11 teams ahead of them in the National League Wild Card race …
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
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Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:Cubs, Zambrano lose; Baker mulls his future
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Bleed Cubbie Blue
Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:Spotlight's off, Cubs turn it on
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The View From The Bleachers
Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Notes: Guillen visits clubhouse — Outfielder packs up belongings, ready to begin rehab — WASHINGTON — Almost two weeks after having elbow reconstruction, Nationals outfielder Jose Guillen arrived at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium on Wednesday afternoon to pack some boxes and then rehab his elbow in Miami.
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Ben Walker / sports.yahoo.com:
NY Mets 4, San Diego 3 — NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Piazza hit the ball so well, he turned the cheers to boos. He almost turned the game in the San Diego Padres' favor, too. — Piazza hit two more home runs off Pedro Martinez, receiving a rare curtain call on the road after the first shot …
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Mike Berardino / Sun-Sentinel:
Report: Marlins top pick Allison has second overdose — Marlins pitching prospect Jeff Allison has reportedly suffered his second overdose in just over two years. — According to The Boston Globe, Medford, Mass., police found Allison unconscious Monday in an apartment building.
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FishStripes
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Boston Globe:
Ex-Peabody star Allison suffers heroin overdose — The sad saga of former Peabody High ace and Florida Marlins pitching prospect Jeff Allison , whose once-promising baseball career has been derailed by drug problems, took another disappointing turn Monday when, according to a Medford Police report, he suffered a heroin overdose.
Aaron / AaronGleeman.com:
Finally 30 — It took 19 years and at times the drought seemed like a lot longer than that, but the Twins finally have another 30-homer hitter. Justin Morneau smacked his 30th homer of the season last night, becoming the first Twins batter to reach that mark since I was four years old. Seriously.
Associated Press:
Yankee Stadium jumper banned for life — Harper, 19, dropped 40 feet onto large net behind home plate last year — NEW YORK - A baseball fan who jumped from the upper deck at Yankee Stadium onto the netting behind home plate has been banned for life from the ballpark and could be sent to jail, a judge said Wednesday.
Sports Illustrated:
You make the call — Is it good baseball strategy or a weak attempt to win? — This actually happened. Your job is to decide whether it should have. — In a nine- and 10-year-old PONY league championship game in Bountiful, Utah, the Yankees lead the Red Sox by one run.
Mark Sheldon / MLB.com:
Ross' walk-off caps Reds' wild win — Cincinnati overcomes early four-run deficit against St. Louis — CINCINNATI — When thinking of Reds hitters capable of delivering gargantuan home run blasts, David Ross wouldn't even put David Ross near the top — or bottom — of the list.
