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Ben Walker / Associated Press:
Lewis shuts down SF, Texas trims WS deficit to 2-1  —  ARLINGTON, Texas—Back in Texas.  Back in the World Series.  —  The Rangers, behind emerging October ace Colby Lewis, came home and threw themselves the biggest tailgate party of them all, beating San Francisco 4-2 on Saturday night and cutting the Giants' Series edge to 2-1.
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Tim Kawakami / Mercury News:
Giants can't turn to Jonathan Sanchez again  —  ARLINGTON, Texas — Jonathan Sanchez, the Giants' weakest link, shattered again Saturday.  —  Which heightens the angst and alters the tenor of the entire World Series in a dramatic way.  —  For now, the weight all piles onto the shoulders …
Discussion: ESPN and HardballTalk
Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:
Now it's a real Series
Discussion: Lookout Landing
T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:   How 'bout them Rangers! Texas takes Game 3
Richard / SportsJustice:
Now you know why Ed Wade acquired Miguel Tejada, Mike Hampton, etc.
Mark Feinsand / NY Daily News:
Dave Eiland blasts ESPNNewYork.com report on his relationship with Yankees skipper Joe Girardi  —  ARLINGTON - Dave Eiland has been silent since Monday's announcement that he would not return to the Yankees, but the former pitching coach shot down a report that his relationship …
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Mark Feinsand / Blogging The Bombers:
Eiland calls ESPN report “absolutely ridiculous”  —  Dave Eiland has been a man of few words for the past week, choosing to keep his thoughts to himself following Brian Cashman's Monday announcement that he would not return as pitching coach in 2011.  —  EIland broke his silence on Saturday …
Discussion: HardballTalk and Pinstripe Alley
Andrew Marchand / ESPN:
Source: Joe Girardi, Dave Eiland at odds starting in June
Dan Martin / New York Post:
Mets' Wright likes GM  —  Mets on Twitter  —  Tweet  —  Sandy Alderson hasn't been on the job long, but he already has at least one fan on the Mets' roster.  —  “Everyone I've talked to has had great things to say about him,” David Wright said of the new general manager in an e-mail.
Discussion: MetsBlog.com and NorthJersey.com
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David Waldstein / Bats:
Mets' Offer to Takahashi Is for Only a Year
Discussion: HardballTalk and MLB Rumors
Dan Martin / New York Post:
Alderson ‘suspected’ Canseco used steroids
Discussion: NESN.com and HardballTalk
New York Post:
Rare October victory for Wilpon's Mets
Discussion: MLB Rumors and MetsBlog.com
Fox Sports:
Saving Lee for Game 5 is the right move  —  Ken Rosenthal on why Cliff Lee won't start Game 4.  —  Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005.  He appears weekly on MLB on FOX.  Follow him on Twitter.  —  The Rangers are making …
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Associated Press:
No talk of using Lee for Game 4, Washington says
Discussion: ESPN and MLB
Steve Adams / MLB Rumors:
Valentine Leading Candidate For Brewers  —  A few weeks ago, we heard that Bobby Valentine was the favorite to manage the Marlins, but that's no longer the case.  He's also voiced interest in the Cubs' managerial opening this past summer, and has been linked to the Mariners at times as well.
David Brown / Yahoo! Sports:
Luckily for Rangers, Moreland launched their pitch to switch  —  toiled in the low minors, the Texas Rangers imagined him as something other than a slugger capable of hitting a huge home run in the World Series  —  Even after Moreland put up great numbers — .324/.400/.536 …
NY Daily News:
Madden: Nunez to SS key to Yankee future  —  Now that Cliff Lee has proven to be postseason beatable after all - albeit one series too late for the Yankees - it is worth reviewing the behind-the-scenes circumstances that made him a Texas Ranger.  It wasn't just the Rangers giving …
Discussion: Yankees Daily
Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Timing was right for Bautista's breakthrough  —  Jose Bautista, what do you do for an encore after hitting 54 homers for the Blue Jays in one of the great breakthrough seasons in major league history?  —  “It's hard to predict,” said Bautista from his Florida home.  “I might hit 50 again.
Robert Emrich / MLB.com:
Harper hits first pro homer in AFL game  —  First overall pick now batting .353 in four games in the desert  —  It took four games for Bryce Harper to make his mark in the desert.  —  Harper went deep for the first time in the AFL, pacing Scottsdale to a 13-9 victory over Peoria on Saturday.
Marc Topkin / St. Petersburg Times:
Players name Tampa Bay Rays' David Price AL's outstanding pitcher  —  SAN FRANCISCO — David Price very much still wants to win the American League Cy Young Award, voted on by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.  —  But he was thrilled Thursday to be selected …
 
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Chad Jennings / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Cashman: “It's about what they can do in that win column”
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