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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Barry Bonds on A-Rod: 'I can't wait until he hits 660' — This can't be happening again, but it is. — We should celebrate this historic feat, but many of us won't. — Barry Bonds, baseball's home-run king, cannot believe the contempt. The anger. The open hostility. All of this pettiness toward one man.
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Associated Press:
A-Rod, Yankees Break Out for 14-4 Win Over Red Sox — NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez had a three-run double in a seven-run first-inning outburst, and the New York Yankees broke out the bats and avoided their worst start in more than 25 years with a 14-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night.
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Pinstripe Alley, Federal Baseball, Camden Chat and Over the Monster
Dan ShaughnessyGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Red Sox, Yankees prove there's still some magic in the rivalry
Red Sox, Yankees prove there's still some magic in the rivalry
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Pinstripe Alley and Dan Shaughnessy Watch
Steve Adams / MLB Trade Rumors:
Dodgers Release Ryan Webb — The Dodgers announced that they have released recently acquired right-hander Ryan Webb. With this move, it becomes relatively clear that L.A.'s incentive in making the swap was simply to acquire the Competitive Balance draft pick that Baltimore included in order …
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Charlie Wilmoth / MLB Trade Rumors:
Dodgers Outright Ryan Webb
Dodgers Outright Ryan Webb
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True Blue LA and Camden Chat
Associated Press:
Cole, Pirates Hand Tigers First Loss of Season, 5-4 — PITTSBURGH — Gerrit Cole shut down baseball's top-hitting team, allowing just one run in six-plus innings as the Pittsburgh Pirates handed the Detroit Tigers their first loss of the season, 5-4 on Monday.
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Patrick Saunders / Denver Post:
COLORADO ROCKIES / MLB — ROCKIES TAKE LATROY HAWKINS OUT OF CLOSER ROLE FOR FORESEEABLE FUTURE — The Denver Post — LaTroy Hawkins has struggled as a closer early this season for the Rockies. (Mike McGinnis, Getty Images) — SAN FRANCISCO — LaTroy Hawkins …
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Metsblog:
Mets shutout Phillies, win 2-0 in home opener — Jacob deGrom and the Mets (4-3) bullpen combined to shutout the Phillies (3-4) and win their home opener 2-0. — DeGrom threw 6 1/3 shutout innings, allowing seven hits, walking one and striking out three. He needed 99 pitches, with 64 landing for strikes.
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Phillies Nation, Amazin' Avenue and The Good Phight
MLB.com:
Celebrate the Cream City with Milwaukee Day Sale — MILWAUKEE - The Brewers are proud to represent the great city of Milwaukee, and to help celebrate their hometown, the team is offering a special one-day “4/14 Milwaukee Day Sale,” sponsored by U.S. Cellular.
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Reds' manager calls Heyward slide ‘dirty’ — CINCINNATI • In the Cardinals' victory Sunday, there were two contentious plays at third base involving Cincinnati third baseman Todd Frazier — one that his manager called “dirty” — that could have reverberated through the game and beyond.
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Andy Martino / NY Daily News:
Mets SNY trio of Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, Keith Hernandez reflect on 10 years together in broadcast booth — ATLANTA — Looking for a reminder that life races by at an alarming speed? Here's one: On Monday, Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez will call their tenth Mets home opener together.
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Andy / Kansas City Star:
ANAHEIM, CALIF. — Yordano Ventura unspooled the protective wraps from the right arm that silenced the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday afternoon. He removed another wrap from the right leg that betrayed him midway through the 9-2 Royals victory. He leaned back in a clubhouse chair and sipped from a 16-ounce bottle of water.
Brendan Kennedy / Toronto Star:
Blue Jays home opener '50,000-person St. Patrick's party' — Despite being the most popular ticket on the Blue Jays' schedule, the home opener has garnered a reputation among some fans for being a drunken gong show. — Win McNamee / GETTY IMAGES — Fans stream through newly installed metal detectors …
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Adam McCalvy / MLB.com:
Right-hander dished a career-high nine K's in win — 4/11/15: Jimmy Nelson tosses seven scoreless innings, striking out a career-high nine in a win over the Pirates — MILWAUKEE — If this is what Jimmy Nelson looks like with a curveball, his second season in the Major Leagues has a chance to be a lot better than his first.
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Associated Press:
Indians Catcher Gomes Out at Least 6 Weeks With Knee Sprain — CLEVELAND — Yan Gomes could be out of the Indians' lineup for two months, a major blow to a team expected to contend this season. — Gomes, one of the Indians' best players, sustained a “moderate” sprain of the medial collateral ligament …
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Steve Adams / MLB Trade Rumors:
Indians Release Brewer, Purchase Marcum's Contract
Indians Release Brewer, Purchase Marcum's Contract
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Brew Crew Ball and Let's Go Tribe