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Kelsie Smith / Boston Globe:
Trouble for Beckett right off the bat — Ragged first inning set an ominous tone — Recently, it seems, there is little variation to the theme: Red Sox starter gets in trouble, has to come out early, and leaves several innings for his bullpen to handle. — Last night the plot didn't change …
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Boston Sports Media Watch
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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Reverse gear — Tigers halt skid by ending Sox' winning streak — No one should presume that the Detroit Tigers are a mere warmup act this week to the Yankees, not when the Tigers arrive in Fenway Park with the best record in baseball, even if burdened with a five-game losing streak.
Jason Beck / MLB.com:
Tigers beat Sox, end five-game skid — BOSTON — As Jim Leyland said over the weekend, the Tigers' struggles are nothing a big home run or a well-pitched game can't solve. — The latter came on Monday night — in Fenway Park, of all places, and against David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, of all people.
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The Baseball Desert
Associated Press:
Tigers knock off Red Sox, end season-worst losing streak — CBS SportsLine.com wire reports — BOSTON — Jim Leyland wouldn't let the Detroit Tigers start worrying, even after a five-game losing streak left them in their longest slump of the season. — "I think he realizes we don't need …
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Even Near-Miss Hits the Spot for the Yankees — The record will show that Alex Rodriguez came through when the Yankees needed him last night, driving in the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the seventh inning. Yet the moment left Rodriguez and the crowd craving more.
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Bronx Banter
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NY Daily News:
Jeter shows how to let loose and have a blast — Why does it have to be a competition, a popularity contest? But it is, always, and in this matter Derek Jeter will forever be the winner. He is homegrown, he has four rings, he is the captain, and he hits the two-run homer in the third inning …
Dom Amore / Hartford Courant:
Posada Snaps 0-For-25 Slump — NEW YORK — Jorge Posada wasn't getting any sympathy. — "Jason [Giambi] and I both went 0-for-32 in [2004]," Derek Jeter said. "We told him, if he goes another seven at-bats we'll sit down and have a talk." — As it was, Posada was 0-for-25, the longest hitless streak of his career.
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New York Times
Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Nats belted by Braves — Ortiz takes the loss; Jones hits three homers off Nats pitching — WASHINGTON — The Nationals had no answers for Chipper Jones and Matt Diaz as they were pounded by the Braves, 10-4, in front of a crowd of 21,550 on Monday night at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium.
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Nats320
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Steven Goff / Washington Post:
Ortiz and Nationals Battered by Braves — Washington Nationals Manager Frank Robinson would've liked to have sat back in the dugout last night at RFK Stadium, set aside the mounting concerns about his last-place team and admired another outstanding effort by Ramon Ortiz, his most reliable starting pitcher of late.
Rich Draper / MLB.com:
Notes: Frandsen recalled — Utility infielder takes roster spot of departing Vizcaino — SAN DIEGO — You know a ballplayer is a "gamer" when he shows up in the clubhouse smiling despite a still-healing scratch on his face and swollen left cheek and jaw from being hit by a 90-something-mph pitch only the night before.
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Joe Frisaro / MLB.com:
Notes: Marlins monitoring rookie hurlers — Four first-year starters expected to exceed 2005 workload — LOS ANGELES — Going with four rookies in the rotation has the Marlins closely monitoring innings. — Ideally, the organization is eyeing its first-year starters to log between 180-200 innings for the season.
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FishStripes
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Dan Gelston / Associated Press:
Pedro Martinez leaves with injury after first inning as Phillies pound Mets 13-0 — PHILADELPHIA — Pedro Martinez felt a twinge in his calf before the game, and felt the effects during a terrible first inning. — The New York Mets could only hope a bad outing was the worst of his problems.
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Hot Foot
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Gordon Wittenmyer / TwinCities.com:
Center fielder's left hand was hit by pitch Saturday — TWINS REPORT — Scheduled to have X-rays on his swollen left hand, Torii Hunter instead canceled those plans when he got to the Metrodome on Sunday morning and said he was ready to play. — "I didn't want them,'' said Hunter …
Mark Gonzales / Chicago Tribune:
Letdown? Not in this slap-down — Never complacent, Sox put up 8 in 4th, cruise to 5th straight — With first-place Detroit in the early stages of snapping a five-game losing streak Monday night at Boston, the White Sox provided their own form of satisfaction.
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Exile in Wrigleyville
Ben Shpigel / New York Times:
Ace's Injury Is Cause for Concern — The Mets managed for a month without their ace, Pedro Martínez, and now there is a good chance they will have to do without him again. Martínez strained his right calf muscle Monday night while warming up before the Mets' 13-0 loss against the Phillies …
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Archie Bunker's Army
Mike McGann / NY Baseball Central:
Sports Media 'Experts' On Gambling, Illicit Sex — There's a phrase for what happened to Paul Lo Duca this week: witch hunt. First, in the New York Post when after the catcher and made all kinds of extravagant claims about the catcher's personal life. Then The Daily News, having been …
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Mike's Mets
