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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.
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 …
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 …
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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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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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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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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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?
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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