Reports: Mets deal for Diamondbacks OF Green  —  NEW YORK — Outfielder Shawn Green reportedly was traded from the Arizona Diamondbacks to the New York Mets on Tuesday night, giving the NL East leaders one more big bat as they gear up for the postseason.  —  Two team officials familiar …

Playoffs are a wild idea: These Sox not worthy of October  —  An hour or so after the Yankees had completed their five-game annihilation of the deflated Red Sox with a 2-1 victory yesterday at Fenway Park, the two teams headed for the airport to catch their charter flights to the West Coast.

Relieved Glavine to miss just one start  —  Clot not threatening; lefty targets return to rotation by weekend  —  NEW YORK — A sense of great relief washed over the Mets on Tuesday when they learned that Tom Glavine will not require surgery and that he will rejoin the team's rotation after missing just one turn.

Cubs rookie's Wrigley debut turns sour  —  O'Malley leaves with injury, absorbs loss  —  Prospects come and prospects go, and sometimes they meet on a midsummer's night.  —  The Cubs' past bumped into its future Tuesday night at Wrigley Field as onetime prospect Jamie Moyer returned …

Mulder remains a work in progress  —  NEW YORK — Both his manager and his coach believe Mark Mulder will be a work in progress when he returns to the mound for his first start in two months tonight.  But even before the lefthander twirls a pitch or finishes an inning against the New York Mets …

Markakis hits 3 homers … The cheers kept building even after Nick Markakis ducked his head in the home dugout and disappeared into a mob of smiling Orioles.  Finally, the rookie re-emerged and, after a playful nudge from hitting coach Terry Crowley, acknowledged the applause with a tip of his hat.

Phils' Rowand out 4-6 weeks with broken ankle  —  As the Phillies make their push for the NL wild card, they will have to do it without starting center fielder Aaron Rowand.  —  Rowand suffered a fractured left ankle in a scary outfield collision with teammate Chase Utley on Monday night …

Mets' Karma Is Taking a Turn for the Worse  —  Pedro Martínez blurted out a remark three weeks ago that seemed offhand then, but poignantly prescient now.  —  Standing in the visitors' clubhouse at Turner Field in Atlanta, Martínez responded to a television commentator's assertion …

Pirates trade Hernandez to Phillies for cash  —  By Dejan Kovacevic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  —  ATLANTA — The Pirates today traded utilityman Jose Hernandez to the Philadelphia Phillies for an undisclosed amount of cash.  —  Hernandez, 37, was making $850,000 on a one-year contract.

New York Yankees Are Losing Money, Cashman Says (Update1)  —  Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) — The New York Yankees are losing money even as they're winning games, General Manager Brian Cashman said.  —  The team's highest-in-baseball payroll, revenue-sharing outlay and other expenses eclipse its revenue …

Dodgers-Padres Preview  —  Jake Peavy has started to turn around his miserable season.  That bodes well for the San Diego Padres as they look to defend their NL West crown.  —  Peavy will try to help the Padres move closer to the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers when the NL West rivals resume their three-game series on Tuesday.

JLWS umpire nurtures baseball in Romania  —  Years from now, if baseball becomes popular in Romania, Cristian Manea may be considered the person responsible for getting it there.  —  Manea, a successful 32-year-old computer business owner in his native Bucharest, became the first umpire …