Yanks prez: Team wants Cashman back as GM  —  NEW YORK — After a successful regular season, the New York Yankees would like Brian Cashman to remain as the team's general manager beyond this year.  —  “Clearly, we want him back,” Yankees president Randy Levine told ESPNNewYork.com.

Red Sox, Braves Lead by Only 1 Game With 3 to Play  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Never in the long history of Major League Baseball has any team held a lead in September of eight games or more for a postseason berth and failed to clinch.  —  Got that?  Never happened.  Not even once.

2011 New York-Penn League Top 20 Prospects  —  With negotiations with most premium 2011 draftees dragging late into the summer, the short-season New York-Penn League lacked its usual college star power this summer.  Instead, most of the circuit's top prospects were 2010 high school draftees or international players.

Matt Kemp's NL triple-crown ambitions take hit in Dodgers' win  —  SAN DIEGO — At one point during the Los Angeles Dodgers' 8-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday, a fan at Petco Park shouted at Matt Kemp.  —  “Braun got two hits!” the fan alerted him.  “Braun got two hits!”

Ten worst career-ending performances of all time  —  It's that time of the year again.  The regular season is winding down, and with it quite a few major league careers will come to an end.  —  Everyone wants to go off with a nice storybook ending where you get the bit hit or throw …

Mariners' nearly invisible owners stand firmly behind struggling team  —  The prevailing wisdom among Mariners fans is that finding the team's owner requires a transpacific flight and a whole lot of luck.  —  But while Japanese billionaire Hiroshi Yamauchi has not been to the United States since becoming …

BoSox stop Yanks to pad wild card lead  —  The Red Sox salvaged their AL wild-card lead Sunday when Jacoby Ellsbury hit a two-out, three-run homer in the 14th inning of the nightcap of a day-night doubleheader, lifting Boston over the New York Yankees 7-4.  —  The Red Sox rallied from a 3- deficit …

Source: Frustrated Marlins to consider trading underperforming Nolasco  —  Nolasco in his final start took the loss after giving up seven runs (six earned) on nine hits in two-plus innings to Brewers.  —  MILWAUKEE — Ricky Nolasco's season ended Sunday.  So perhaps did his tenure with the Marlins.

Distressing day, that's for sure  —  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - We are reeling.  Our world no longer makes sense.  The Patriots can't even beat the Buffalo Bills anymore.  —  In a skittish September of cataclysmic Red Sox freefall, we still had the Patriots over the Bills.

Phillies end eight-game losing streak in romp over Mets  —  NEW YORK — Roy Halladay, Hunter Pence and the fully loaded Philadelphia Phillies snapped their eight-game losing streak, looking playoff-ready in every way Sunday by routing the New York Mets 9-4.  —  Playing their regular lineup …

Well-stocked bullpen gives Rockies some trade options  —  Contact: 303-954-1301 or trenck@ denverpost.com  —  HOUSTON — The Rockies' season is measured more by MRIs than RBIs.  It has been an unmitigated disaster, with injuries and underwhelming performances siphoning any and all optimism.