As Yankees' saver, Coke floats  —  Maybe Tuesday Phil Coke will allow himself to feel some happiness about taking over the closer's role from Mariano Rivera for one night and earning his first career save.  Because in the clubhouse after Monday night's game, he spoke like a man who had just been through a harrowing experience.

Dodgers beat banged-up, error-prone Mets 3-2 in extras  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Errors by Gold Glove center fielder Carlos Beltran and fill-in first baseman Jeremy Reed in the 11th inning cost the New York Mets, who had the go-ahead run taken away on an appeal play after Ryan Church missed third base …

Delgado To Have Surgery  —  The Mets have announced Carlos Delgado will undergo arthroscopic surgery to remove a bone spur and repair a torn labrum in his hip tomorrow in New York.  —  ...from what i can gather, delgado will likely be out until the all-star break...  RSS 2.0 You can skip to the end and leave a response.

Given a chance to play, Pierre thriving  —  Speedster flourishing in the spot previously held by the currently suspended Ramirez  —  The mayor of JuanPierreWood, an idyllic subdivision of Chavez Ravine, believes in giving an honest effort for a day's pay.  He's making $10 million this year.

Weeks out for season  —  By Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel  —  St. Louis - General manager Doug Melvin just gave us the very bad news that second baseman Rickie Weeks is out for the season with the wrist injury he suffered Sunday.  —  Weeks has a torn tendon sheath in his left wrist that must be repaired surgically.

Wagner announces surprise retirement  —  Reliever baffles front office with decision to hang up spikes  —  WASHINGTON — Nationals right-hander Ryan Wagner decided on Sunday to retire from baseball, and the team is baffled as to why Wagner called it quits.

Bartlett's career-high five RBI helps Rays rout A's  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Jason Bartlett drove in a career-high five runs to help the Tampa Bay Rays beat the struggling Oakland Athletics 13-4 Monday night for a season-best four-game winning streak.

Angels' John Lackey has to start someplace, gets win  —  The right-hander, pitching two days after being ejected in first inning of his season debut at Texas, makes it through five shaky innings and benefits when Angels rally from 4-1 deficit to beat Marine  —  Reporting from Seattle …

Pirates claim Jackson from Yankees  —  The Pirates have claimed right-handed reliever Steven Jackson off waivers from the New York Yankees.  —  Jackson, 27, had a 1.88 ERA and one save in seven appearances for Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre before being designated for assignment May 8.

World Series games will start earlier  —  MLB, FOX Sports respond to concerns of fans  —  World Series games this October will start approximately 40 minutes earlier, a concerted response by FOX Sports and Major League Baseball to concerns about late broadcasts inconveniencing East Coast and young fans.

Improving Mariners looking to trade Yuniesky Betancourt to the Pirates for Jack Wilson?  —  A nice win by the Mariners yesterday, as seen in the photo above.  They needed a weekend like this.  That's two good series in a row by the Mariners, even though they only got results on this one occasion.

Every day Rays rewrite the ‘book’  —  For Maddon, breaking unwritten rules a part of the game  —  ST. PETERSBURG — Joe Maddon knows all about the proverbial “book” that governs the conduct and acceptable on-field protocol for baseball teams.  The Rays manager even acknowledges that you might …

Kendall reflects on reaching milestone  —  Brewers catcher singles in second for 2,000th career hit  —  ST. LOUIS — After Jason Kendall dislocated and fractured his right ankle in a horrifying injury against the Milwaukee Brewers on July 4, 1999, some wondered whether the then-Pirates catcher would play again.