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Associated Press:
Daniel Nava's single caps rally, Red Sox top Marlins 6-5 — BOSTON - Daniel Nava singled in the go-ahead run to cap a three-run eighth inning and the surging Boston Red Sox [team stats] completed a sweep of the stumbling Miami Marlins, 6-5 on Thursday night.
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Boston Herald, ESPN, Surviving Grady and Yahoo! Sports
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Ian Browne / MLB.com:
‘Drama’ surrounding Red Sox wearing on Papi — Veteran slugger hints this could be his final season in Boston uniform — BOSTON — On the surface, it seems like life has never been better for David Ortiz. At 36 years old, he is tearing the cover off the ball.
Discussion:
Over the Monster, Boston Globe and baseballmusings.com
Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
Sox stay hot with sweep — Middlebrooks aids in eighth-inning rally — Daisuke Matsuzaka wipes his brow as he departs the game in the sixth inning, having surrendered four runs on four hits and a walk. (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff) — How can the Red Sox not play Will Middlebrooks at third base every day?
Discussion:
Surviving Grady
Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
A big blast from Ortiz — Angry DH rips media scrutiny — David Ortiz is having one of the best seasons of his career and is sure to be an All-Star again. But he's not having fun, and the media is to blame. — It's even to a point, the designated hitter said, where he is unsure about returning next season.
Discussion:
The Soxaholix
Associated Press:
Peralta Gives Up Key Double, Nationals Beat Rays — WASHINGTON (AP) — Suspended Tampa Bay reliever Joel Peralta served up a tiebreaking, two-run double to Danny Espinosa in the sixth inning Thursday night, sending the Washington Nationals over the Rays 5-2.
Discussion:
DRaysBay
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Bill Chastain / MLB.com:
MLB hits Rays' Peralta with eight-game ban
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MLB Daily Dish and Yahoo! Sports
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Tim Lincecum's struggles a Giant mystery — ANAHEIM, Calif. - San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum took the team bus back to his hotel room Tuesday night, called the 425 area code on his cellphone and undraped his soul for 1½ hours, not hanging up until nearly 2 in the morning.
ESPN:
Schilling's baseball fortune ‘probably all gone’ — BOSTON — Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling said Friday that the collapse of his 38 Studios video game company has probably cost him his entire baseball fortune, and he placed part of the blame on Rhode Island officials, including Gov. Lincoln Chafee.
Discussion:
Yahoo! Sports
Bob Raissman / NY Daily News:
Before becoming toast of town, NY Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey had rift with TV analyst Bobby Ojeda — Knuckleballer having career felt slighted by comments before the pair cleared air during spring training — R.A. Dickey soaks in adulation lately but early last season found Mets TV analyst Bobby Ojeda …
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Newsday and MetsBlog.com
MLB.com:
Presley, Jones back in lineup vs. right-hander — PITTSBURGH — After facing left-handed starters in the first two games of the series with the Twins, the Pirates were able to return to their righty lineup for Thursday night's matchup. — That meant left fielder Alex Presley back atop the batting order …
Discussion:
MLB Daily Dish and MLB Rumors
Bill James Online:
The Greatest of Games — I. The Record Game — I was very into Matt Cain's perfect game, watched the last three innings of it on my television machine, called my wife to watch the end of it, e-mailed my son in San Francisco to make sure he was watching.
Discussion:
baseballmusings.com and McCovey Chronicles
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Dan Lependorf / Hardball Times:
Visualization: How Matt Cain's perfect game stands in baseball history
Discussion:
Only Baseball Matters and baseballmusings.com
Associated Press:
Arizona Moves to College World Series Finals — OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Arizona converted three errors into a six-run first inning and advanced to the College World Series finals with a 10-3 victory over Florida State on Thursday. — Freshman starter Brandon Leibrandt was pulled after he recorded …
Discussion:
Baseball America
Associated Press:
S. Carolina Beats Arkansas 2-0 on 3-Hitter — OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Freshman Jordan Montgomery and Matt Price combined on a three-hitter Thursday night, lifting two-time defending national champion South Carolina to a 2-0 victory over Arkansas at the College World Series.
Discussion:
Baseball America
David Murphy / Boston Herald:
Phillies' optimism just turns into another loss — PHILADELPHIA — One by one, they walked to the dugout as the boos rained down. First, Chad Qualls, then Hunter Pence, then Shane Victorino. In order: a suspect relief appearance, a strikeout with the tying run on second and nobody out, a pop out with the tying run on third.
Discussion:
Phillies Nation
CSN Washington:
Official Harper ‘clown question’ t-shirts coming — These days when a comment an athlete makes goes viral, it is only a matter of time before people start producing t-shirts and merchandise. It happened to Robert Griffin III with his ‘RG3’ moniker and it happened with New York Jets' linebacker Bart Scott …
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HardballTalk and Nats Enquirer
