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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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Archie Bunker's Army
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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.
Yahoo! Sports:
Mets LHP Glavine confirms clot in left shoulder — FLUSHING, New York (Ticker) - The strength of the New York Mets' rotation grew more tenuous Sunday when Tom Glavine confirmed that he has a blood clot in his left shoulder that will require tests and force him to miss at least one start and possibly much more.
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Betty's No Good Clothes Shop …
Newsday:
Wallace Matthews — No matter, October still in play — If you are a long-suffering Mets fan — is there any other kind? — it must freeze the heart and chill the spine to imagine this dream of a season going down in flames because of one cold fingertip.
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
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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The Sports Frog
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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 …
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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Washington Post
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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.
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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Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Cubs' turnaround has Lee pondering — With Neifi Perez traded to Detroit on Sunday before the Cubs' 5-3 loss to St. Louis, all three players who competed for the Cubs' second-base job in spring training are gone. — Jerry Hairston was traded to Texas in May for Phil Nevin …
Associated Press:
Mets take chance on Mota, deal for Indians reliever — NEW YORK — Three years after Guillermo Mota brawled with the Mets, the reliever was traded to New York by the Cleveland Indians on Sunday for a player to be named. — Mike Piazza charged the mound after Mota hit him with a pitch on March 12, 2003.
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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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Red Hot Mama
Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Mulder returns this week — CHICAGO — Lefthander Mark Mulder will end a two-month stay on the disabled list Wednesday when he moves from a series of rehab starts to a confrontation with the New York Mets at Shea Stadium, the club confirmed Saturday. — "I'm ready to get back out there," Mulder said.
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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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Chad Finn's Touching …
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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FishStripes
Dave van Dyck / Chicago Tribune:
Dumb luck? Rookie finally hitting — Anderson's swagger, sense of humor guide him to success after woeful start — As a close friend, Brandon McCarthy had a unique view of the desolation that should have left Brian Anderson depressed and despondent. — "For a lot of people, it would have dragged them under," McCarthy said.
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Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:
Seanez released from 'pen — Terry Francona hopes all you Rudy Seanez haters out there are happy, because he certainly isn't. — Desperate for a fresh arm in the bullpen following Friday's losses to the New York Yankees, the Red Sox reluctantly designated the veteran reliever for assignment …
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Empyreal Environs
