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Dan Shaughnessy / Boston Globe:
A Nation worries about its ace — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - While New England slept, the Tampa Bays Rays evened the American League Championship Series last night, winning a 5-hour-27-minute marathon, 9-8, on B.J. Upton's sacrifice fly in the 11th at 1:35 this morning.
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Jack Curry / New York Times:
In Long Night of Home Runs, Upton's Sacrifice Pulls Rays Even — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Red Sox pushed, but the Rays shoved back. The Red Sox slapped the Rays, but they smacked back. It was a game the Red Sox wanted to win but one the Rays desperately needed to win.
Cliff Corcoran / Sports Illustrated:
Previewing NLCS Game 3 … Phillies at Dodgers — Series: NLCS, Game 3 — TV: FOX — Starters: Jamie Moyer (0-1, 4.50 ERA) vs. Hiroki Kuroda (1-0, 0.00) — The Rays pulled out their must-win game in extra-innings last night. Now, the Dodgers arrive home down 0-2 in the NLCS facing not just one …
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Henry Schulman / San Francisco Chronicle:
NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES — Colletti walks line between baseball genius and scapegoat — (10-12) 04:00 PDT Los Angeles — Word on the street here a few months ago was that Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti better not sign a long-term lease on his Los Angeles apartment.
Mike Lupica / NY Daily News:
Shooting from The Lip: Mets, Yanks should stay away from Manny — Both the Mets and Yankees, who are a little desperate these days as they watch the baseball postseason go on without them, should stay away from Manny Ramirez. Let the Dodgers pay him. And have him.
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Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Texas Rangers' president takes aim at pitchers — egrant@dallasnews.com — SURPRISE, Ariz. - For the 15 years between retiring as the world's greatest living pitcher and taking on the task of reforming the world's worst living pitching staff, Nolan Ryan was - and is - a cattle rancher.
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Tony Massarotti / Boston Globe:
Beckett received shot — He had injection for oblique injury — Josh Beckett appears to be progressing toward full health, but team sources confirmed that the Red Sox pitcher required an injection of a painkiller and anti-inflammatory medication after injuring his right oblique during …
Ian / SOX & Dawgs:
Please Don't Quit Your Day Jobs — I am not sure there are really any words to explain this from the end of the TBS postgame coverage after Game 2 of the ALCS between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays. — At least they all agree they were brutal.
Wallace Matthews / Newsday:
Mets are legends in their own minds — There's a feeling around the Mets that somehow they are the uncrowned champions of the National League, the best team with the worst luck, or some such nonsense. — They tell themselves they should have been in the 2006 World Series …
The Times-Tribune:
Early guess at the Triple-A and Double-A rotations — A question from the comments: If every pitcher returned( no trades, rule 5 draft) what would the pitching staff at SWB look like. I think if this would happen it's gonna create an even bigger log jam for a lot of these pitchers in AA and AAA.
