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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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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.
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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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