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Injury-depleted Cubs summon Lee for Sunday's game — CBS SportsLine.com wire reports — DES MOINES, Iowa — Derrek Lee will be back with the Chicago Cubs for Sunday's game at Minnesota after just one minor league rehab appearance. — The move to activate Lee from the disabled list …
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Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Lee returning Sunday — Lee goes 1-for-4 in 1st rehab game; Womack, Bynum hurt — MINNEAPOLIS — Tony Womack and Freddie Bynum were injured in Saturday's game, with Womack suffering lower back spasms while running the bases in the third inning and Bynum incurring a swollen right arm.
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Suzanne Smalley / Boston Globe:
Visiting player hit wife, police charge — Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Brett Myers and his wife were walking back from a bar late Thursday night to their Back Bay hotel when an argument broke out. Authorities and witnesses say Myers then assaulted his wife, leaving her sitting on the sidewalk with a swollen face, crying.
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Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Better shop around: Rangers to trade lefty — Club says there is interest around league in 21-year-old reliever — DENVER - Unable to balance having an unproven reliever in the bullpen of a team with division championship aspirations, the Rangers will try to extract some help from Fabio Castro in another manner.
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Associated Press:
Aye, Papi — Ortiz's walkoff HR in 10th lifts Red Sox over Phillies — BOSTON (AP) — David Ortiz hits so many walkoff homers that one teammate even predicts them. — The Boston slugger hit the ninth of his career, a two-run blast to the center-field bleachers that gave the Red Sox …
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Amalie Benjamin / Boston Globe:
Ortiz won't shift his approach to hitting
Ortiz won't shift his approach to hitting
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Joe Capozzi / Palm Beach Post:
Abercrombie gets tutoring — NEW YORK — Outfielder Reggie Abercrombie had no problem finding his way to Yankee Stadium on Saturday. — He made sure he didn't get lost like he did Friday when he took the wrong train and wound up at Shea Stadium in Queens before finding his way to the Bronx.
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David Haugh / Chicago Tribune:
For Rocker, it's been there, done that — John Rocker walked into the room to meet the man assigned to conduct his Major League Baseball-mandated sensitivity training six years ago and walked out shortly thereafter with the discussion delving no deeper than the weather.
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Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cards Insider: Duncan battles nepotism perception — DETROIT — Chris Duncan probably will start in Memphis' outfield Sunday. A week ago, he was in the Cardinals' clubhouse as they concluded a three-game series against Colorado, and Wednesday he endured an 0-for-four night against the Chicago White Sox.
Jeff Zrebiec / Baltimore Sun:
Redemption for Orioles … It wasn't about rivalry or even revenge. For the home team, the first regular-season baseball game here between the Washington and Baltimore franchises since 1971 had nothing to do with the club in the visiting dugout. — It was all about the collective psyche of the Orioles …
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Dawn Klemish / MLB.com:
Remlinger designated for assignment — Veteran southpaw reliever hopes to hook on with another club — ST. PETERSBURG — At 40 years old, Mike Remlinger knows his pitching career won't last forever. Still, he was understandably disappointed after being designated for assignment after Saturday night's game at Tampa Bay.
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Barry Rozner / Daily Herald:
Stories really missed point on Guillen — Somewhere on the drive between Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, White Sox general manager Ken Williams released a heavy sigh into his cell phone. — "Ozzie (Guillen) has to keep this stuff off my desk.
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Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
TBS MAY AIR PART OF LCS — June 24, 2006 — In what would be a landmark move, Major League Baseball is in serious negotiations with TBS Sports to put a portion of baseball's league championship series exclusively on cable television for the first time, sources have told The Post.
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Andrew Bare / MLB.com:
Notes: Nervous Sowers ready to go — Left-hander enjoys time to adjust before Sunday debut — CLEVELAND — Jeremy Sowers sat with the assembled media before Saturday's game against the Reds, every bit as polished and poised in front of a microphone as he is on a pitcher's mound.
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Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates Notebook: Gagne predicts Tracy will win in Pittsburgh — LOS ANGELES — Eric Gagne has a message for the Pirates: — Give Jim Tracy a chance. — "Hey, this is Pittsburgh. It's not going to change overnight," Los Angeles' star closer was saying in the Dodgers' clubhouse yesterday.
Associated Press:
Sox rally from four down, beat Astros — CHICAGO (AP) - Joe Crede provided a painful flashback for the Houston Astros and helped rally the surging Chicago White Sox to their ninth straight victory. — Crede hit reliever Chad Qualls' first pitch for a game-tying grand slam in the seventh …
Jan Hubbard / Dallas Star-Telegram:
RANGERS NOTES — Manager has lots of faith in DeRosa — DENVER — Buck Showalter made it official Friday: — Mark DeRosa has earned a job as a Rangers starter. — In one sense, that's not news. DeRosa has been in the lineup in all 20 games in June.
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