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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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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?
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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.
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The Soxaholix
Ian Browne / MLB.com:
‘Drama’ surrounding Red Sox wearing on Papi
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Over the Monster, Boston Globe and baseballmusings.com
Washington Post:
Robin Ficker heckles Joe Maddon, receives signed ball — (By James Wagner - TWP) Just when you thought the Joe Maddon-Joel Peralta pine tar trip to D.C. couldn't get any more amazing, along came the series finale, featuring heckling from Robin Ficker, a souvenir ball smeared with pine tar, and a personalized message from Maddon.
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William World News and The Heater Feed
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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
Mike Puma / New York Post:
Mets closer Francisco eggs on Subway rival by calling Yankees ‘chickens’ — Mets on Twitter — At least somebody isn't afraid to talk trash about a cross-town rival. — “I can't wait to face those chickens,” Mets closer Frank Francisco told The Post when asked about playing the Yankees …
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Newsday, NY Daily News, New Jersey Online, HardballTalk and NESN.com
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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.
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Yahoo! Sports
Aaron Fitt / Baseball America:
2012 College Player Of The Year: Mike Zunino — Few players have had more of an impact on college baseball over the last three years than Florida catcher Mike Zunino. — Maybe Zunino's offensive numbers this spring weren't eye-popping, but they were plenty robust—he tied for fourth …
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HardballTalk
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.
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Phillies Nation
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.
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Baseball America
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 …
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MLB Daily Dish and MLB Rumors
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
