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Need a veteran lefty? Red Sox's Wells clears waivers — After suffering a five-game sweep at the hands of the Yankees, the Red Sox might have to begin looking toward 2007. If Boston does cut bait on this season, David Wells will be available to the highest bidder.
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Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Red Sox swept away by rival Yankees — Wells solid over 7 1/3 innings, but bats go silent vs. Lidle — BOSTON — Just as luck would have it for the reeling Red Sox, they got every bit of the big-time pitching performance they were looking for out of David Wells on Monday afternoon …
Murray Chass / New York Times:
Fans Talked a Good Game, but the Red Sox Never Played One — THE Red Sox and their frenzied Fenway followers can take some solace from the obvious comparisons between what they experienced over the past four days and the Boston massacre of 1978, when the Yankees annihilated the Red Sox …
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Mark Newman / MLB.com:
Own the Yankees' historic sweep — There were two notable differences between the Yankees' storied sweep of the rival Red Sox in September of 1978 at Fenway Park and the sweep that the Yankees just completed in five stunning games there this past week: — 1) In 1978, a four-game sweep completed …
Bernie Wilson / Associated Press:
Park scratched after recurrence of intestinal bleeding — SAN DIEGO (AP) — Padres right-hander Chan Ho Park was scratched from his start Monday night against the Los Angeles Dodgers due to a recurrence of intestinal bleeding that recently forced him to go on the disabled list.
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Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:
Notes: Gagne focused on here and now — Former Cy Young closer deals with health before the future — SAN DIEGO — Eric Gagne knows there's a possibility he's thrown his last pitch as a Dodger, but for now, he can't worry about free agency or contracts or next year.
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Associated Press:
Lilly-Gibbons argument leaves manager bloodied — TORONTO — Blue Jays manager John Gibbons wound up with a bloody nose after tangling with Toronto pitcher Ted Lilly near the dugout during Monday night's game against Oakland. — It was not known whether any punches were thrown.
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Jordan Bastian / MLB.com:
Notes: Jays deny Law's report — Wells denies conversation referenced on blog — TORONTO — The Blue Jays insist that it's a non-issue. Keith Law, who spent more than four years as an advisor to Toronto general manager J.P. Ricciardi before joining ESPN as a baseball writer …
Providence Journal:
Sean McAdam: Sox lose games and perspective — BOSTON — There's bad, there's embarrassing, and somewhere, there's a level below to describe what happened to the Red Sox in their five-game self-immolation against the Yankees. — "Everything went about as wrong as it could," …
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Mark Gonzales / Chicago Tribune:
Cubs' woes no mystery to Perez — Says rookie starters, injuries made it tough — DETROIT — Neifi Perez displayed the same joy Monday that he had during his tenure of almost two seasons with the Cubs. — But as he moved from a fifth-place team to the first-place Detroit Tigers …
Dick Kaegel / MLB.com:
Mailbag: What's Shealy's future? — Royals reporter Dick Kaegel answers fans' questions … My family and I have been traveling to Kansas City from Iowa and Minnesota to watch the Royals for the past 20-some years. We were wondering why the team is named the Royals. Can you help?
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates Notebook: GM in search of left-handed power bat — By Dejan Kovacevic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — ATLANTA — The Pirates plan to search for a left-handed power bat to play first base or right field in 2007, preferably someone young enough that they can control his rights for several seasons.
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Will Carroll / Baseball Prospectus:
Under The Knife — Cascade Blues — Okay, so shoot me, but I was watching the Colts-Seahawks game tonight while the Sox and Yanks were in rain delay, and something in particular caught my eye. One of the things that NBC is doing to promote its new Sunday night game is a modified fantasy contest …
Dan Hickling / Providence Journal:
PawSox swept in Ottawa — OTTAWA — Sins of commission, sins of ommission. The Pawtucket Red Sox found a way to commit both in last night's doubleheader with the Ottawa Lynx, and paid for that with twin losses, 6-3, and 1-0, before 2,577 at Lynx Stadium. — In the opener …
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