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Alex Avila: ‘Definitely owe’ Deven Marrero after costing him homer  —  LOS ANGELES — About the only thing that went wrong for Arizona in another win over the Dodgers was a baserunning blunder that took away a home run.  —  Diamondbacks third baseman Deven Marrero appeared to hit a three-run homer …
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Associated Press:   Pollock's two homers lift Diamondbacks to win over Dodgers
Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Diamondbacks at Los Angeles Dodgers
Discussion: MLB Baseball News …
Andy McCullough / Los Angeles Times:
Dodgers' early struggles continue as they fall 9-1 to Diamondbacks
Discussion: DodgerBlue.com
Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:   Arizona Diamondbacks at Los Angeles Dodgers
Alan Eskew / UPI:
Ohtani on mound for Angels again vs. Royals  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It is Sunday, so it must be Shohei Ohtani time in the Los Angeles Angels rotation.  —  Ohtani, the two-way Japanese star, will make his third major league start and all of them are on Sundays.
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Associated Press:
LEADING OFF: Ohtani starts, wintry weather, Reds skid  —  Baseball fans watch during the seventh inning of a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta Braves, Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Chicago.  The Cubs won 14-10.  (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)  —  Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani …
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Shohei Ohtani's start postponed after MLB first planned to play through 30-degree weather  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Kansas City Royals were initially told by Major League Baseball to play through 30-degree temperatures before postponing Sunday's game against the Los Angeles Angels …
Anthony Fenech / Detroit Free Press:
Detroit Tigers-N.Y. Yankees doubleheader now June 4, MLB draft Day 1  —  As expected, the split doubleheader between the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees on Sunday afternoon was postponed, continuing an early-season trend which has wreaked havoc around the major leagues - and especially in Detroit.
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Detroit Free Press:   Detroit Tigers: Game 1 vs. Yankees postponed; Game 2 still on tonight
Dana Gauruder / UPI:
Yankees, Tigers will try to play two after washout
Discussion: Pinstripe Alley
Anthony Fenech / Detroit Free Press:   Detroit Tigers' Nicholas Castellanos must own up to his mistakes
Scott Springer / Cincinnati.com:
Cincinnati Reds Manager Bryan Price preaches patience amid frustration  —  Scott Springer with Tucker Barnhart The Enquirer/Scott Springer  —  With Tri-State weather seemingly like Seattle in terms of precipitation, the Reds are also in a gloomy predicament Bryan Price has seen before.
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John Fay / Cincinnati.com:   As Cincinnati Reds struggle, top prospect Nick Senzel remains with Triple-A Louisville
Alan Robinson / UPI:
Cardinals seek sweep of struggling Reds
Discussion: Viva El Birdos and Red Reporter
Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Cubs' weather-related decisions a complicated affair  —  Chicago Tribune  —  Years from now they'll be talking about that winter day back in the spring of '18 when the Cubs came roaring back from an eight-run deficit, scoring nine runs on three hits in the eighth inning with a hawk wind …
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Teddy Greenstein / Chicago Tribune:   Cubs' game against Braves postponed, rescheduled for May 14
Nine-run eighth lifts / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Baseball roundup: Cubs score nine with two outs in eighth to beat Braves in wild one
Associated Press:
Homer happy Mariners hit 4 long balls in win over A's  —  SEATTLE (AP) - Jean Segura hit a three-run homer, Mitch Haniger, Kyle Seager and Daniel Vogelbach all added solo shots, and Seattle battered Oakland pitching for 17 hits in the Mariners' 10-8 win over the Athletics on Saturday night.
Discussion: Lookout Landing
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Associated Press:   Homer happy Mariners hit 4 long balls in 10-8 win over A's
Associated Press:
Guzman caps rally in Rangers' 6-5 win over Houston  —  HOUSTON (AP) - Ronald Guzman's first career homer tied the game in the eighth inning, and he put the Rangers ahead with an infield single in the 10th as Texas rallied from five runs down to beat the Houston Astros 6-5 on Saturday.
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Stefan Stevenson / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:   Rangers Reaction: Rookies, relievers and a future Hall of Famer help stop skid
Associated Press:
Renfroe's 2-run homer lifts Padres to 5-4 win over Giants  —  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Hunter Renfroe hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the seventh, an inning after his outfield assist prevented a run from scoring, and the San Diego Padres beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4 on Saturday night.
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Ryan Ford / Detroit Free Press:   Detroit Tigers' bats in epic cold slumber in first 12 games
ESPN:
Logan Forsythe goes on DL day after leaving game with shoulder injury  —  Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Logan Forsythe has been placed on the 10-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation, the team announced Sunday.  —  Forsythe left Saturday's 9-1 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks because of the injury.
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ESPN:   Dodgers' Logan Forsythe leaves game with right shoulder discomfort
Sean Farrell / Daily Record:
Mets winning streak snapped by Brewers  —  NEW YORK - The luck finally ran out.  And the Mets' streak went with it.  —  It seemed like the Mets could do no wrong on a nine-game winning streak that made them the new kings of baseball.  But everything went against them in a 5-1 home loss …
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Joel Sherman / New York Post:
Mets are healthy rotation away from brutal Matt Harvey decision
Discussion: MLB Trade Rumors
Harvey Valentine / UPI:
Nationals try to salvage split with Rockies  —  WASHINGTON — After scuffling through the first two games, the Washington Nationals can salvage a split of their four-game series against the Colorado Rockies on Sunday.  —  Max Scherzer turned in another dominating effort Saturday …
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Associated Press:
Scherzer dominates, Nats end 3-game skid, beat Rockies 6-2
Discussion: Federal Baseball and Purple Row
Steve Buffery / Toronto Sun:
Marco Estrada sees a silver lining to the two games in Cleveland being washed out  —  CLEVELAND - As Blue Jays pitcher Marco Estrada sat in the visiting clubhouse at Progressive Field watching Danny Barnes play a golf game on a nearby machine, pitching coach Pete Walker walked past.
Bradford DoolittleESPN / ESPN:
Justin Verlander is the last of a dying breed on the mound  —  Think about the most memorable pitching duels from your lifetime of watching baseball.  Conjure your favorite.  What was it about that game that made it so indelible?  —  Chances are, that special memory did not involve …
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Molina passes Cincinnati icon Bench for career innings caught  —  CINCINNATI  • Sometime after the fifth inning Saturday, the visitors' clubhouse manager, Mark Stowe, found Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina in the dugout and asked what had to seem like a question out of left field, not one driven by history.
Discussion: Viva El Birdos
Ken Powtak / Associated Press:
Red Sox off to best start in 118-year history after beating Orioles  —  Red Sox rookie manager Alex Cora cracked a smile when asked how he felt when he learned it was the best start in team history.  —  “I just heard it for the first time,” Cora said after Boston beat the Baltimore Orioles 10-3 on Saturday to get to 12-2.
Discussion: Baltimore Sun and Associated Press
 
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