Homers hurt Dodgers in Game 1  —  Lowe allows two long balls in Phils' three-run sixth inning  —  PHILADELPHIA — One game into the National League Championship Series and the Dodgers know for sure that this isn't the NL Division Series.  —  The Philadelphia Phillies are not the Chicago Cubs …

Women getting Mohawk-style bikini wax to support The Rays  —  Talk about team spirit.  —  The latest style to sweep the west coast, home of the Rays, is a bikini wax.  Mohawk style.  —  Try waving that around at a game!  —  Michelle Foster of Skin Deep Spatique says she was inspired by her son's Mohawk, reports

Tampa Bay Rays won't say sorry  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The opponents in the American League Championship Series couldn't be more different.  —  Name the measuring stick - revenues, resources, tradition, fan base, experience - and the Red Sox [team stats] have it all over Tampa Bay.

Bucs' Moss should be ready for camp  —  Arthroscopic procedure replaces microfracture surgery on knee  —  PITTSBURGH — It looks as if Pirates outfielder Brandon Moss should be ready to take the field with no limitations in Spring Training after all.  —  Moss traveled to Vail, Colo. …

Mets Sell Out $500,000 Luxury Suites Amid Wall Street Crisis  —  Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — The New York Mets sold out the luxury suites in their new stadium for as much as $500,000 a year, avoiding the financial crisis, said Dave Howard, the team's executive vice president for business operations.

The ‘smart’ choice to win the Series?  Tampa  —  If you value money management, root for the Rays to go to World Series  —  Pitcher Grant Balfour celebrates with catcher Dioner Navarro after the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday.  —  Rays party up

Ex-big league pitcher, coach Dal Canton dies at 66  —  CARNEGIE, Pa. — Bruce Dal Canton, a former high school teacher who turned a good showing at a tryout camp into a lengthy career as a major league pitcher and coach, has died.  He was 66.  —  Dal Canton died Tuesday of esophageal cancer.

Chat with Scouts Inc.'s Keith Law  —  Welcome to The Show!  On Thursday, Scouts, Inc. senior baseball analyst, Keith Law, will stop by to talk some baseball.  —  Keith was formerly the special assistant to the general manager with the Toronto Blue Jays and has a wealth of knowledge for you to tap into.

Reds manager Baker will coach his kids' team … SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dusty Baker is going back to youth baseball.  —  This weekend, Baker will be the fill-in coach for 9-year-old son Darren's 10-and-under traveling tournament team, Hard 90 Pastime out of Roseville, Calif., near the Bakers' Northern California home.

Baseball Hall to display “treasures” from 2008 season  —  That's the HOF's word — “treasures” — not mine.  —  See if you can guess which local team's dead stadium will be honored a wee bit more than the other.  Some of the “treasures”:  — Derek Jeter's spikes when he set the record …

Mets' Burgos to be jailed 3 months awaiting trial  —  NAGUA, Dominican Republic — New York Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos will be jailed for three months while awaiting trial for a hit-and-run accident that killed two women.  —  The 24-year-old reliever told The Associated Press …