Rockies rally in 13th, win NL wild card  —  DENVER (AP) — Matt Holliday raced home on Jamey Carroll's shallow fly ball, capping a stunning, three-run rally in the 13th inning against Trevor Hoffman and leading the Colorado Rockies over the San Diego Padres 9-8 Monday night for the NL wild card.

Source: Mets lefty Schoeneweis received steroids … Scott Schoeneweis, the veteran New York Mets reliever and a survivor of testiticular cancer, received six steroid shipments from Signature Pharmacy while playing for the Chicago White Sox in 2003 and 2004, ESPN has learned.

Will Randolph be fired?  Minaya's not saying ...  Just got back from Shea and I have to say I'm a little surprised that GM Omar Minaya refused to give Willie Randolph what I would consider an iron-clad vote of confidence.  Minaya was asked no less than four times about Randolph's job security …

Baseball's biggest chokes (cont.)  —  9) 2003 Red Sox lose ALCS to Yankees  —  What the math says: 26-to-1 against.  Those were the Yankees' odds, down by three runs with no one on base and five outs remaining in Game 7.  —  Aggravating circumstances: Grady Little refusing to remove Pedro Martinez …

Mets lost millions (of $) in collapse  —  Franchise could have seen $15 million or more in postseason revenue if it had made it to series.  Now it has to worry about next year's ticket sales.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The New York Mets lost more than a playoff spot, their pride and probably some of their fan base this past week.

BoSox set rotation: Beckett, Dice-K, then Schilling  —  BOSTON — Daisuke Matsuzaka will follow Josh Beckett in Boston's postseason rotation against the Angels, leaving Curt Schilling for Game 3 when the series shifts to Anaheim.  —  The Red Sox decided to have Schilling pitch on Sunday instead …

Blue Jays look ahead to 2008 season  —  TORONTO - The internal projection for the Toronto Blue Jays this season was somewhere between 90-92 wins, a total that would have had them in legitimate contention for the post-season.  —  Had things fallen their way after that, the feeling was this group …

Cards Notebook: No bonus for Wells  —  PITTSBURGH — With three shutout innings in relief Sunday, Kip Wells got the victory but fell seven outs shy of triggering a $500,000 bonus.  The one-year, $4 million contract the righthander signed with the Cardinals last November featured several incentives …

Division Series broadcast times set  —  Games, beginning Wednesday, to be aired by TBS  —  Start times have been set for the first round of the Major League Baseball playoffs, and fans will be able to enjoy at least two or three games every day during the opening week of the postseason.

Webb-Zambrano battle may decide series  —  LIKE THIS STORY?  —  It's easy to underestimate the Diamondbacks — most of us have done it all season.  When a team wins the most games in its league while scoring the third fewest number of runs, the only sensible response is, "Kids, don't try this at home!"

Dombrowski speaks on Leyland, Tigers  —  Team president/general manager details state of club for '08  —  DETROIT — To some people's surprise, Tigers manager Jim Leyland left Comerica Park for his Pittsburgh home on Monday without the one-year contract extension that he was seeking.

MOISES WANTS TO RETURN  —  Moises Alou, who ended his first season as a Met with yesterday's 8-1 loss to the Marlins, likely will return to the club next season, assuming they exercise his $7.5 million option.  —  "If they pick it up, I think I'm coming back," the 41-year-old outfielder said.

Phantom Cy Youngs  —  The 2006 Cy Young Award race in the National League was wide open.  Brandon Webb won the award with a so-so 64% award share, but as you may or may not have noticed, Webb didn't get a single MVP vote.  On the other hand, the Cy Young runner-up, Trevor Hoffman …

MENTAL LAPSES FOR MELKY  —  Melky Cabrera's mind stopped working one day short of the finish line.  —  Fortunately for Cabrera, Alex Rodriguez didn't get hurt scoring from first base in the third inning of yesterday's 10-4 win over the Orioles.  If A-Rod was injured it would have been Cabrera's fault.