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Sam Borden / NY Daily News:
Bombers cut Small, Beam up rook — WASHINGTON - Aaron Small appeared from nowhere last summer to help save the Yankees' season. Yesterday, he quietly faded away. — With Kyle Farnsworth likely sidelined for at least the weekend with back spasms, the Yanks needed to strengthen …
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
For Yankees' Small, Rags to Riches to Rags — WASHINGTON, June 17 — In the last dozen years, Aaron Small has belonged to a dozen organizations. When the Yankees gave up on him Saturday, it hurt like nothing before. — Standing outside the visitors' clubhouse at R.F.K. Stadium in the morning …
Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
Questions About Colon Key in Weaver Move — For a significant clue as to how Bartolo Colon is faring today, check the Angel Stadium radar gun — if you can. — In his lone home start this season, the radar gun readings were not displayed on the scoreboard — at Colon's request, according to Angels spokesman Tim Mead.
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Associated Press:
Rally Nats — Washington overcomes 7-run deficit to stun Yankees — WASHINGTON (AP) — It's hard to think of a more demoralizing scenario. The Washington Nationals, losers of five straight, were down seven runs to the New York Yankees, whose fans had turned RFK Stadium into a home-away-from-home.
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Anthony McCarron / NY Daily News:
Kris homers & Anna rants — It couldn't have been a better return to Shea for Kris Benson if his wife had scripted it herself. And saucy Anna Benson, part of the reason her husband was shipped out of town last winter, relished it while watching from behind home plate before launching into one of her trademark rants.
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Bob Dutton / Kansas City Star:
Prospects won't skip by Omaha — Alex Gordon and Billy Butler will have to prove themselves in Class AAA before making it to KC. — HOUSTON - HOUSTON | Don't look for third baseman Alex Gordon to appear anytime soon in the Royals' lineup. Nor outfielder Billy Butler.
Vincent M. Mallozzi / New York Times:
Recalling the Time of the Signs at Shea — From 1964 to 1981, Karl Ehrhardt, a k a the Sign Man, shared his commentary about his beloved Mets. "I just called them the way I saw them," he said. — One recent morning in Queens, Karl Ehrhardt walked over to his bedroom closet and unlocked …
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Newsday:
Like father, like son — Mets and Yanks who folowed their dads to the majors — After every game, when Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano gets back to his New Jersey apartment or his hotel room, his cell phone rings. — It's his father, Jose, a former pro pitcher who is calling with advice.
ESPN:
Ex-MLB'er Segui says he's player in FBI affidavit … David Segui, a 15-year major league baseball player who last was on an MLB roster in 2004, says he's one of the players whose names were redacted in the IRS affidavit that said Jason Grimsley received two kits of human growth hormone on April 19.
Dan Connolly / Baltimore Sun:
Mauer, Twins' calculated risk, pays off — Maybe it was uncommon insight. Maybe guts. Maybe both. — Whatever the case, it worked, demonstrating once again that the best organizations in baseball are confident enough to chance screwing up. — Minnesota Twins general manager Terry Ryan …
Jesse Spector / NY Daily News:
Taint by numbers — Juice doesn't spoil all marks — With new, disheartening details about drug use in baseball being revealed on an all too regular basis, they cast a harsh light on the statistical achievements and records of the last decade or so. — Certainly, all home run totals must …
Jim Baumbach / Newsday:
Phillips playing with different kind of pain — WASHINGTON — Andy Phillips couldn't stop tearing up no matter how hard he tried. His eyes stayed wet throughout a game in April as he questioned his priorities. — Phillips had to be home with his sick wife, he kept thinking.
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Steve Henson / Los Angeles Times:
Scully's Stepdad Was Simply 'Dad' — Dodgers broadcaster ached to know his real father, but that was soothed by his stepdad. — Dad was working late as usual, finishing up a 14-hour shift at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Vin Scully had finished his homework and was getting sleepy.
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Associated Press:
M's in Bonds' future? Slugger mum — SEATTLE (AP) — It took less than a day for slowing superstar Barry Bonds to field the inevitable question, a tantalizing one that has been bouncing around baseball for months. — Has he thought about moving to the AL and becoming a designated hitter next season …
Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Ponson is sent to bullpen — The Cardinals have notified pitcher Sidney Ponson of at least his temporary assignment to the bullpen while they contemplate promoting Anthony Reyes from Class AAA Memphis to make Thursday's start against the Chicago White Sox. — Pitching coach Dave Duncan …
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