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Bob Ryan / Boston Globe:
Latest blow may be the lowest of all — How could it get worse? — Here's how it could get worse. The Red Sox can't hold a 5-3 lead entering the eighth. Derek Jeter fists a two-out game-tying single to right in the ninth. The Red Sox can't score after getting the first two men on in the ninth.
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Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Rich in natural resources — Epstein playing futures market — He didn't bring a white flag to wave in surrender, or say the Red Sox can't compete with the Yankees. What Theo Epstein said last night in a long on-field interview before the Sox-Yankees game is that the Red Sox never …
Tony Massarotti / Boston Herald:
Feeling the heat, Epstein holds his ground — They never see things the same way we do, which is probably a good thing. — The last thing the Red Sox ever need is some apple-polishing sycophant who licks an index finger before determining which way the wind is blowing.
Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Notes: Lefty Lopez brought back to 'pen — Reliever recalled to neutralize Yankees' left-handed sluggers — BOSTON — Another day, another roster move. With their pitching staff taking an unprecedented beating in the first three games of this five-game showdown against the Yankees …
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David Picker / New York Times:
Mets' Glavine to Find Out if Condition Will End Year — Tom Glavine will be tested this week to determine if there is a blood clot in his pitching shoulder, a condition that could place his season and perhaps his career in jeopardy. — Glavine, a 40-year-old left-hander …
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Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Glavine's health, season in jeopardy — Test results pending on blood clot and artery in left shoulder — NEW YORK — Mets left-hander Tom Glavine will miss at least his next start and possibly the remainder of the season, pending the result of tests on a blood clot in his pitching shoulder.
Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Tom may have a blood clot — Lefty's season is in jeopardy — Tom Glavine's health and his season are in jeopardy, a potentially crushing blow to the pitcher as well as to the Mets' World Series ambitions, the Daily News has learned. Sources said the southpaw has experienced coldness …
Yahoo! Sports:Mets LHP Glavine confirms clot in left shoulder
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Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Nats' Late Rally Falls Just Short — The last several innings of the Washington Nationals' nearly unwatchable 12-10 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies were just intriguing enough to force the simple question, based on an elementary move in which one man replaced another in the lineup.
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Washington Times, Nationals Baseball Fan, District of Baseball, Federal Baseball and William F. Yurasko
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Bill Ladson / MLB.com:
Notes: Soriano a fan of Phils' Howard — Nationals slugger trying to catch reigning Derby champion — PHILADELPHIA — Entering Sunday's action, Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard led the National League in home runs with 43, while Nationals left fielder Alfonso Soriano ranked second with 40.
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Anthony Rieber / Newsday:
Teammate knows numbness feeling — Roberto Hernandez can feel Tom Glavine's pain. Or at least his numbness. — Hernandez, the Mets' 41-year-old reliever, had a blood clot in his right forearm surgically repaired in 1991, his first year in the big leagues. Hernandez said his main concern back then was not his baseball career.
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NY Daily News:
Cone aware real foe is the unknown — This is how it started for Tom Glavine a few days ago and this is how it started for David Cone 10 years ago, May of what would be a World Series season for Cone and for the Yankees: A numbness in the fingers that had never been there before and would not go away.
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Carrie Muskat / MLB.com:
Cubs acquire catcher for Perez — Tigers send Minor League backstop Robinson to Chicago — CHICAGO — In Spring Training, Todd Walker, Jerry Hairston Jr., and Neifi Perez all were battling for the Cubs' starting second base job. Now, all three are gone.
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Toni Ginnetti / Chicago Sun Times:
Barrett still feeling effects of home-plate collision — A collision at home plate Friday between Cubs catcher Michael Barrett and St. Louis Cardinals shortstop David Eckstein has had a lingering impact for both clubs. — Both players didn't start the games Saturday and Sunday in the wake of the third-inning collision.
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Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Only 100 at-bats? Lee would go batty — Derrek Lee could have called it a season and rested his right wrist for next year, but he doesn't want to sit if he still has a chance to play. What does Lee hope to accomplish by coming back for the final month of meaningless games?
NY Daily News:
Bombers' best not buddies — It's big chill for Derek & A-Rod — BOSTON - This was back in 1998, the year the NBA All-Star Game was at Madison Square Garden, and suddenly you came walking around the corner to a concession stand upstairs and there were Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.
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Shawn / Cincinnati Reds Blog:
Little League, Big Dreams by Charles Euchner — I received a review copy of the book "Little League, Big Dreams" by Charles Euchner, and so I am writing a review. This is a fine book of a topic that is quite hot right now, as ESPN devotes much of their programming schedule to the Little League World Series.
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Clark Spencer / Miami Herald:
Rare double play key to Marlins' win — The Marlins preserved their victory against the Braves with a rare double play in the ninth inning that was started by catcher Miguel Olivo's throw from home plate. — cspencer@MiamiHerald.com — The Marlins couldn't have diagramed it any better …
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