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1:25 PM ET, May 15, 2018

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Detroit Free Press:
Next Slide  —  What happened: The Detroit Tigers beat the Cleveland Indians, 6-3, on Monday night at Comerica Park.  The win snapped an 11-game losing streak against the Indians, dating back to last season.  Mike Fiers turned in his best performance of the season, allowing one run on three hits over six innings.
Discussion: Let's Go Tribe and Bless You Boys
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Detroit Free Press:   Next Slide  —  Niko Goodrum has been through a lot in his baseball life.
Jamie Samuelsen / Detroit Free Press:   Detroit Tigers: Each move Al Avila, Gardenhire make geared to future
Noah Trister / Associated Press:   Goodrum's 2 homers lift Tigers over Indians 6-3
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Flaherty has a good chance for longer stay with Cards  —  MINNEAPOLIS  • The day after Jack Flaherty struck out 13 batters and did not walk one in what could end up being his last Class AAA start for a while, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny referenced how Flaherty seemed to have “a little more juice” on his best pitch, the slider.
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cards' DeJong benefits from extensive playing time at shortstop  —  MINNEAPOLIS  • To explain how he's shaped his preparation to play as often as possible at the infield's most demanding position, Cardinals shortstop Paul DeJong began by describing what it's like in the dugout and how restless he is at rest.
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cards prospect O'Neill keeps slugging, has 13 homers in 27 games at Memphis  —  MINNEAPOLIS  • When the Cardinals acquired him this past season from Seattle, they saw outfielder Tyler O'Neill as a power source known to hit in surges.  Now he's sustaining them.
Discussion: Associated Press
Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Milwaukee Brewers … A.J. Pollock made the slow walk from center field toward the home dugout on Monday night, a trainer by his side.  It was a sight the Diamondbacks have become conditioned to fear.  —  As if their current skid wasn't bad enough …
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Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Washington Nationals
Discussion: Federal Baseball
Bob McManaman / Arizona Republic:   Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Washington Nationals
JSOnline:
Next Slide  —  PHOENIX - The Brewers have been laying waste to the early-season narrative that they could only beat the bad teams.  —  Fresh off winning three of four games in Colorado to kick off this three-city, 10-game trip, the Brewers drew first blood Monday night in the series opener against Arizona at Chase Field.
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Tom Haudricourt / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Brewers 7, Diamondbacks 2: Five late runs against Arizona's top-ranked bullpen do the job
Associated Press:
Andrew Heaney shuts down Astros in Angels' 2-1 rivalry win  —  Andrew Heaney struck out 10 during a career-high eight innings of four-hit ball, and the Angels pulled percentage points ahead of Houston atop the AL West with a 2-1 victory over the Astros on Monday night.
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Greg Beacham / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Andrew Heaney shuts down Astros in Angels' 2-1 rivalry win
Discussion: Halos Heaven
Dave Eminian / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Reyes rocks in rehab start: 5 innings, 12 K's, 100-mph fastballs  —  • Some things never change.  —  Alex Reyes made his return to Dozer Park and the Peoria Chiefs on Monday, four years, a major-league stint and a Tommy John surgery later, and still flashed that triple-digit fastball he showed here in 2014.
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Associated Press:
Reyes, Rodriguez carry Peoria to 5-2 win over Clinton
Discussion: Viva El Birdos
Bernie Wilson / Associated Press:
Parra's 3-run homer lifts Rockies to 6-4 win over Padres  —  SAN DIEGO (AP) — After hitting a go-ahead, three-run homer, Gerardo Parra was just as happy that rookie Noel Cuevas went deep for the first time.  —  “It's good having new talent like that and for him to hit his first homer in the big leagues …
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Bernie Wilson / Associated Press:
Padres call up Reyes, whose 14 homers lead all of baseball
John Harper / The Charlotte Observer:
A Bryce Harper-Yankees marriage seems to be a longshot, but it could come down to Stanton  —  On June 9, 2015, Bryce Harper was leading off the seventh inning of a 1-1 game, his first in the Bronx, when he took his Mickey Mantle obsession to such an extreme that he convinced a person working …
Discussion: Federal Baseball
Associated Press:
Color war: Zobrist defies MLB again with black spikes  —  CHICAGO (AP) — Ben Zobrist was joined by Chicago Cubs teammates Kyle Schwarber and Steve Cishek in wearing black spikes on Monday despite a warning from Major League Baseball that he was in violation of the sport's uniform regulations.
Frank Fitzpatrick / Philly.com:
A Slippery Rock firm gets down and dirty with the Phillies, other MLB teams  —  SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. — It was 10 years ago, on a famously miserable October night in Philadelphia, that this oddly named borough in an opposite corner of Pennsylvania began to acquire another strange appellation: the Capital of Baseball Dirt.
USA Today:
Alex Rodriguez to host, produce special ESPN interview series, ‘Pivot’  —  Alex Rodriguez's image rehabilitation tour added another stop on Tuesday.  —  Rodriguez, whose stellar major-league career was marred by various controversies, will host a four-part series on ESPN and ESPN Deportes that will run in the coming weeks.
Associated Press:
Baseball notebook: Seattle's Cano, Texas' Beltre being evaluated  —  Seattle's Cano, Texas' Beltre to be evaluated  —  The Seattle Mariners said Monday that they'll have a better idea on the projected length of Robinson Cano's recovery time after the second baseman is examined by a hand specialist Tuesday in Philadelphia.
Tommy Birch / Des Moines Register:
Will the Chicago Cubs call up Adbert Alzolay?  Iowa Cubs pitcher says he's ready to make MLB debut  —  Chicago Cubs pitching prospect makes Triple-A debut Friday  —  Iowa Cubs pitcher Adbert Alzolay, the top prospect in the organization according to MLB.com, is ready to go if Chicago needs him in the big leagues for his next start.
Michelle Robertson / San Francisco Chronicle:
Magnitude 3.5 earthquake shakes San Francisco Bay Area, centered near Oakland  —  An earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 3.8 rattled the San Francisco Bay Area Monday night.  The quake was later downgraded to a 3.5.  —  The rolling quake was centered about 2 miles east of Oakland …
Discussion: MLB Baseball News …
Drew Davison / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Glove love: Why MLB players are so superstitious and meticulous about them  —  Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre has officially retired his first glove.  It'll be framed and on display in his home in the near future.  —  Beltre used the same Rawlings glove for the first 11 years of his career …
Rick Hummel / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Series preview: Cardinals at Minnesota  —  Scouting report  —  After Minnesota's two-game sweep in St. Louis last week in which the Twins outscored the Cardinals 13-1, the interleague career series is even at 12-12.  Minnesota has continued winning after it left St. Louis …
 
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