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Associated Press:
Mariners tee off on Red Sox pitching, sail to easy win — CBS SportsLine.com wire reports — SEATTLE — Finally, Jeff Weaver has something to shout about. — Seattle's early season flop continued his flip back toward respectability by holding the potent Boston Red Sox to one earned run …
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Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:
Tavarez, Red Sox trip up: Seattle leagues better in series-opening win — SEATTLE - Returning to the American League for good this season, the Red Sox [team stats] responded as if they had no idea where they were. — Looking lost at the wrong end of Interstate 90, the Red Sox' 9-4 loss …
Geoff Baker / Seattle Times:
Weaver fires up M's in 9-4 win over Red Sox — Some cuss words and other vocal barrages Jeff Weaver let fly on the mound left little doubt as to the state of his intensity level. — The rest of the Mariners seemed as pumped up as Weaver later admitted to being after Monday night's game.
David O'Brien / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Hudson, McCann get it right for a night — Battery's performance ends losing streak at 5 — Not only had the Braves gone six days without a win, they had gone six days without a lead. — So when Brian McCann hit an RBI single for a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning Monday, the Braves were relieved.
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Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Bergmann Returns, But Nats Fall Short — By this point, the Washington Nationals need some sort of spreadsheet to keep track of their players. Perhaps a daily roll call instituted by Manager Manny Acta. "Bergmann!" Acta could yell in the clubhouse. "Here!" the right-hander would reply — for now.
Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Guzman's Injury Likely Ends Season — When Washington Nationals shortstop Cristian Guzman smacked a tag on the helmet of Cleveland's Josh Barfield in the fifth inning of a game Sunday, none of the 26,413 at RFK Stadium could have known that it was among the last plays Guzman would make this season.
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Ailing Birds are on the mend — NEW YORK — A parade of regulars returning from the disabled list on this trip is expected to culminate with the Cardinals sending ace Chris Carpenter on a rehab assignment as early as this weekend. — Carpenter, recovering from elbow surgery …
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Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Cubs win in wild ninth — Alfonso Soriano earned a $136 million contract last winter because of his ability to hit a baseball. — Wrigley Field security guard Anton Migursky earns considerably less than that for ensuring a safe atmosphere at the Friendly Confines.
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Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Baylor seeks Orioles' job — Chicago - Don Baylor wonders what it would have been like to manage the Rockies with a humidor. He wishes things had worked out differently with the Chicago Cubs. But more than anything, the only man to lead both teams wants another chance.
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FishStripes
Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Lester the spottier starter — So it's Gabbard who will fill in — SEATTLE — While Kason Gabbard was preparing to make a start in the place he made his big-league debut last season, Washington native son Jon Lester was enduring one of the worst starts of his minor league career last night in Louisville, Ky.
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Steve Silva / Boston Globe:Music from the Mound — More on Dice-K's CD courtesy …
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SOX & Dawgs
Maury Brown / The Biz of Baseball:Gyro to the Beat: Matsuzaka to Release Music CD
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
Ben Bolch / Los Angeles Times:
Penny plays the ace card — He is the first 10-game winner in the National League as Dodgers rout the Diamondbacks, 8-1. Garciaparra to move from first to third. — PHOENIX — This was like driving the station wagon to work so that the sports car would stay spotless for the big date.
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The Feed
Mark Hale / New York Post:
BUEHRLE ON METS' RADAR - IF . . . The Mets are tracking Mark Buehrle, according to a person familiar with the situation, but they will only trade for the White Sox lefty if they have a 72-hour window to sign the free agent-to-be. — The only exception would be if the cost for renting Buehrle …
Bob Raissman / NY Daily News:
Mets voices whiff on Paul's tantrum — Paul Lo Duca, the Mets' All-Star poster child, acted like a spoiled one Saturday night in the sixth inning (A's-Mets, Ch. 11), snapping on home plate umpire Marvin Hudson over a called strike. Gary Cohen and Ron Darling quickly took Lo Duca to task.
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Dejan Kovacevic / Associated Press:
Kuwata's sushi-ball has the raw material — Pirates' Japanese legend leans on ultra-slow pitch for early success — Pitcher Masumi Kuwata gets high fives from teammates in the dugout after leaving in the seventh inning against the Angels Sunday in Anaheim, Calif.
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T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:
Notes: Eyre to make first big-league start — Right-hander is 2-3 with a 3.00 ERA in 19 relief appearances — DETROIT — The Rangers are planning to bring reliever Willie Eyre out of the bullpen and start him on Tuesday night against the Detroit Tigers. — Eyre is replacing Vicente Padilla …
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Baseball Time in Arlington
Mike Lupica / NY Daily News:
Bombers fly over the hill — Age & AL East catch up to shell of Yankee past — You know what the 2007 Yankees are so far? They are two weeks of real baseball, or at least the kind of real baseball you would expect from a $200 million team. Two weeks.
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