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.

Strasburg won't see D.C. this season  —  Buzz up!  —  Swallow hard, Washington Nationals fans, or what's left of you.  A long summer is about to get longer if acting general manager Mike Rizzo has his way.  —  Stephen Strasburg isn't coming to the nation's capitol.  —  Oh, calm down.

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.

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 …

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 …

MLB, Fox turn back World Series clock with earlier start times  —  Major League Baseball and Fox will announce today a real TV throwback: World Series action starting before 8 p.m. ET.  —  That hasn't happened, in a regularly scheduled weeknight Series game, in at least 34 years.

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.

Despite Detwiler, Down to Defeat  —  Solid Start Done In By Defense, Bullpen : Pirates 12, Nationals 7  —  Six professional pitchers performed for the Washington Nationals last night.  One had been promoted from Class AA Harrisburg earlier in the day, for the purposes of a cameo start.

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.