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Steve Buckley / Boston Herald:
Somehow, Red Sox get magical — Somehow, out of nowhere, it became a game screaming and begging for a Dave Roberts moment. — Here were the Red Sox [team stats] last night and into the early morning at Fenway Park [map] trailing the Tampa Bay Rays 7-0 in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series …
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ESPN:
Report: Boston gives Manny partial playoff share — Manny Ramirez spent the playoffs in Dodgers blue. But he'll still get a share of Boston Red Sox playoff green. — The Boston Herald reported that Red Sox players last month voted Ramirez a two-thirds share of playoff money …
Jim Caple / ESPN:
Stunned Rays can only hope to put brutal loss behind them … BOSTON — So how do you put THAT behind you? — How do you overcome blowing a seven-run lead when you're just seven outs from going to the World Series? How do you stuff a monumental, historic collapse …
Martin Fennelly / TBO Rays:Seven Outs From The Series, The 2007 Rays Show Up
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Yahoo! Sports, Boston Globe, The Big Lead, Sports Illustrated, SOX & Dawgs, Oriole Post, Babes Love Baseball and The Bottom Line
Adam Kilgore / Boston Globe:That just happened — If you didn't turn the TV off or go to sleep …
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Projo Sox Blog, Baseball Prospectus, The House That Dewey Built, Phillies Nation and The Soxaholix
Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:Stunning win keeps Sox alive
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Baseball Prospectus, Yahoo! Sports, Boston Globe, It is about the money, stupid, Over the Monster, Camden Chat and SOX1FAN
ESPN.com:
Four months after injury, Yanks' Wang fires pitch — TAMPA, Fla. — New York Yankees ace Chien-Ming Wang threw 25 pitches Friday in his first throwing session off a bullpen mound since hurting his foot in June. — Wang partially tore a tendon and sprained his right foot running the bases during …
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Buster Olney / ESPN:
Peavy trade derby: Padres court additional teams … San Diego pitcher Jake Peavy, the Cy Young Award winner currently being dangled in trade talks, initially indicated to the Padres that he would prefer a deal to one of five teams — Atlanta, St. Louis, the Chicago Cubs, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros.
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Dan Graziano / New Jersey Online:
Yankees express interest in Padres' Peavy — The Yankees are one of several teams that have had preliminary discussions with the San Diego Padres about a possible trade for 2007 National League Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy. — According to a person familiar with the substance …
Dylan Hernandez / Los Angeles Times:Dodgers have plenty of questions to address
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MLB Rumors
Tom Haudricourt / JSOnline:
Melvin expands search — Manager opening drawing interest — Boston - Milwaukee general manager Doug Melvin now realizes just how much the Brewers have moved up in the baseball world. — Managerial candidates are calling him, instead of vice versa. — Melvin said Thursday …
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John Hickey / seattlepi.com Mariners blog:
Looking at the candidates who spurned the Mariners — I spent 30 minutes or so on the telephone Thursday night with a longtime baseball executive who wanted to know what was going on in Seattle. — Specifically, he wanted to know why so many people at the assistant general manager level told …
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U.S.S. Mariner
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MLB.com:
Rick Knapp named Tigers pitching coach — DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers today announced the organization has hired Rick Knapp as the club's pitching coach. — Knapp joins the Tigers Major League coaching staff after spending the previous 12 seasons as the Minor League pitching coordinator for the Minnesota Twins.
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Columbia pitches ‘Moneyball’ to Pitt — Zaillian to write, Frankel to direct adaptation — Brad Pitt is adding to his busy schedule by playing ball for Columbia. — Steve Zaillian has signed on to adapt Michael Lewis' nonfiction bestseller “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” and David Frankel is attached to direct.
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Dodger Thoughts
Jay Jaffe / Baseball Prospectus:
A Dream Season Ends, a Nightmare Continues — No lead is safe. — If there's one thing I've learned from rooting against the Red Sox over the past decade or so, it's that in Fenway Park a ballgame is never as over as it seems based merely on a lopsided score.
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The Futility Infielder
Gordon Wittenmyer / Chicago Sun Times:
Cubs, GM Hendry close to extension — The Cubs and general manager Jim Hendry are closing in on a multiyear extension that could help stabilize the team's baseball operations at a time the sale of the franchise is growing increasingly uncertain. — Hendry, who was in the final guaranteed year …
