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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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Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:
Bad to worse to ugly — NY one win away from 5-game sweep — After three straight humiliating, one-sided losses to the Yankees, the Red Sox were in no mood to suffer the same fate again last night. — But it turns out they're now suffering the blackest of moods, as their freefall into baseball's pit of pain continues.
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.
Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Mismatched Sox — HRs in 10th give Yankees another win — Jonathan Papelbon has saved more games in a season than any Red Sox rookie ever, saved more games than Keith Foulke did in the World Series year, saved more games than anyone had a reasonable right to expect.
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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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.
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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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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 …
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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Epstein shows he can field his position — Theo Epstein, fresh from posing with other Red Sox employees, including the uniformed types, for the annual organizational photo — David Ortiz sat in the front row between CEO Larry Lucchino and Epstein — staked a spot near a cluster of reporters in front of the Sox dugout and stopped.
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Anthony McCarron / NY Daily News:
Tight groin muscle KO's Moose after 4 — BOSTON - A rain delay couldn't knock Mike Mussina out of last night's start against the Red Sox, but a tight right groin muscle did after only four innings, though it's unclear how severe the injury is. — Mussina departed after throwing only 62 pitches …
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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?
