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Associated Press:
Red Sox beat Orioles 6-3 to avoid 3-game sweep — BALTIMORE - Clay Buchholz shook off a rocky start to earn his 11th win, Dustin Pedroia [stats] singled in the tiebreaking run in the sixth inning and the Boston Red Sox [team stats] beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-3 Thursday night to avoid a three-game sweep.
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Camden Chat, MLB Daily Dish and TSN.ca
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Michael Baron / Metsblog:
Mets send Pedro Beato to Red Sox for Kelly Shoppach — The Mets announced that Pedro Beato was acquired by the Red Sox on a waiver claim to complete their trade for C Kelly Shoppach. — The Mets acquired Shoppach earlier this week for a player to be named later. — The Mets acquired Beato via the Rule 5 draft in 2010.
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Amazin' Avenue and Baseball America
Matt Pepin / Boston Globe:
Game 119: Red Sox at Orioles — Good afternoon. Here's a preview of tonight's series finale in Baltimore: — RED SOX (57-61) — Ellsbury DH — Crawford LF — Pedroia 2B — Gonzalez 1B — Ross RF — Saltalamacchia C — Punto 3B — Ciriaco SS — Podsednik CF
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Over the Monster
Fox Sports:
Giants' waiver options are slim — Alfonso Soriano indicated to Chicago Cubs beat writers on Wednesday that he would not waive his no-trade rights for the San Francisco Giants. — Other external options will be available to the Giants if they seek to replace left fielder Melky Cabrera …
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MLB Daily Dish and MLB Rumors
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Associated Press:
Jones homers twice as Braves knock off Padres — ATLANTA — Chipper Jones homered twice on a night when a big crowd turned out to get his bobblehead, and the Atlanta Braves won their 15th straight game with Kris Medlen as a starter, beating the San Diego Padres 6-0 on Thursday.
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Talking Chop
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Steve Melewski:
Dan Duquette on O's pitching philosophy: “We don't like the cutter” — In an interview with Orioles executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette on Wednesday at Camden Yards, Duquette made it clear he is not a fan of young pitchers throwing cut fastballs.
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FanGraphs Baseball, Camden Chat and Hardball Times
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Fred Lum / Globe and Mail:
Game between Blue Jays and White Sox halted while fan receives CPR — The game between the Chicago White Sox and Toronto Blue Jays has been delayed for 4 minutes in the seventh inning while a fan received CPR and was taken away on a stretcher. — Blue Jays players left their dugout Thursday night …
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Canadian Press, Associated Press, baseballmusings.com, Bluebird Banter and ESPN
Laurel J. Sweet / Boston Herald:
Lucchino: Bobby Valentine will remain Sox manager — Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino made clear today that he's “not going to walk away” from manager Bobby Valentine and that the embattled skipper would remain on the job for the rest of the season.
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Boston Globe
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ESPN:
Henry: No one called for Valentine's firing
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Boston Globe, The Soxaholix, Dan Shaughnessy Watch, Sports of Boston and ESPN.com
Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Arguing Strop's quick pitch, Adrian, Valentine ejected
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Boston Globe
csnchicago.com:
Kap: Cubs, Castro working on long-term deal — With the focus of the Cubs management team of Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer clearly on a long term plan of overhauling the Cubs organization, nearly every move they have made since taking control of the team has been with a vision towards the future.
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MLB Rumors, Bleed Cubbie Blue and MLB Daily Dish
Associated Press:
Harvey Does It All in Mets' 8-4 Win Over Reds — CINCINNATI (AP) — Rookie Matt Harvey drove in one more run than he allowed in the longest outing of his short major league career, and the New York Mets snapped the Cincinnati Reds' five-game winning streak with an 8-4 victory on Thursday night.
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Associated Press and baseballmusings.com
Associated Press:
Dodgers Leave Pittsburgh Angry With Rare Loss — PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers left Pittsburgh in a bad mood, and it had little to do with the end of their four-game winning streak. — Dodgers slugger Matt Kemp and manager Don Mattingly were ejected, and teammates Joe Blanton …
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Bucs Dugout, True Blue LA and Associated Press
Dave van Dyck / Chicago Tribune:
Konerko set to return Friday against Royals — Sox captain will be DH to start as club monitors progress from concussion symptoms — TORONTO — The White Sox are hoping for some inspiration when they arrive in Kansas City for a weekend series against the Royals.
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MLB Daily Dish
Vinnie Duber / MLB.com:
Reddick out of A's lineup with tooth issue — Melvin takes the opportunity to give his outfielder a needed day off — KANSAS CITY — Josh Reddick is down a tooth, and it meant the A's were down a middle-of-the-order hitter for Wednesday night's game against the Royals.
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HardballTalk
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