Sox eye Nats shortstop Guzman  —  NEW YORK - The Red Sox have been searching to find a major league shortstop for quite some time and that search intensified this weekend after Jed Lowrie reinjured his left forearm and went on the disabled list.  —  Major League sources indicate that the Red Sox …

Braves survive to down Dodgers in 10  —  After Johnson's homer, Escobar's play preserves win  —  LOS ANGELES — After Kenshin Kawakami delivered what manager Bobby Cox termed “the game of his life,” and Kelly Johnson proved he still possesses clutch power, the Braves ended another chapter …

New world of hope awaits Chapman  —  Confident Cuban pitching phenom dreams of fortune and fame as major leaguer … BARCELONA, Spain — As he sits under a starry night on the patio of a restaurant, Aroldis Chapman plays with a small, hand-held video camera used to record his workout from earlier that day.

Tigers' Leyland ‘sick and tired’ of steroids saga  —  DETROIT - Tigers manager Jim Leyland laments the way names have trickled out in baseball's drug scandal, and says he has grown weary of the disclosures.  —  Leyland usually sidesteps conversations about steroids, but on Sunday …

Pirates Sign Sixth-Rounder For $1.2MM  —  The Pirates continue to pony up quite a bit of cash into the draft in their efforts to rebuild: According to John Perrotto at Pirates Report, they signed their sixth-round pick, Zach Von Rosenberg, for a bonus of $1.2MM.

REGGIE BUYS PIECES OF OLD STADIUM  —  Reggie Jackson has acquired two very big pieces of the old Yankee Stadium.  —  SHUTOUT PUTS YANKS UP 5 1/2  —  Jackson has purchased the letters that spelled “YANKEE STADIUM” on the upper ring of the old ballpark and the concrete from the blacked …

Wrapping it up from the Bronx  —  Just a few quick notes.  —  I spoke to Josh Towers after the game and he said he was told his trip to the big leagues will last one day.  —  Towers, who is put of options, will be DFA'd tomorrow to make room for Chad Gaudin.

Hamilton admits to relapse with alcohol  —  Buzz up!  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)—Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton  —  once again addressed his troubled history with alcohol abuse, after a Web site published photos of him cavorting with several scantily clad women in a bar last January.

Cook will miss start with toe injury  —  Aaron Cook's jammed right big toe has put the Rockies in a bind.  —  The injury will force the ace right-hander to miss Tuesday's start against the Pirates.  He's penciled in to start Friday in Florida against the Marlins.

Arms-Control Breakdown  —  Most baseball pitchers pitch with pain.  Alden Manning's elbow pain began when he was 14, playing for his Greenville, N.C., middle-school baseball team in the spring of 2008.  He would throw five or six innings and afterward, at Cubbie's, a local burger joint …

Baseball Beat: A-Rod has learned to let play do the talking  —  There is a large room designated for press conferences across the hall from the home clubhouse at Yankee Stadium.  It comes equipped with a stage, a podium and a studio-quality lighting and sound system.