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Associated Press:
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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Goat Riders of the Apocalypse
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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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CubsNet.com
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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Baseball Musings
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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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The Joy of Sox
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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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.
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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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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Talking Chop
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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Let's Go Tribe
Zachary Levine / MLB.com:
Myers, Schilling duel at Fenway — Philadelphia (35-38) at Boston (43-28), 1:20 p.m. ET — Of the six former World Series MVPs pitching in the Majors, the Phillies have faced five this year: Tom Glavine, Livan Hernandez, Mariano Rivera, Randy Johnson and Josh Beckett.
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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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Ivy Chat
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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Ben Maller
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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Matthew Borenstein / MLB.com:
Rockies aim to even series with Rangers — Texas (40-34) at Colorado (36-37), 6:05 p.m. MT — For the first time this year, the Rockies will be looking to rebound Saturday night after the first game of an Interleague series. — After easily taking the first games against the Blue Jays …
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Purple Row
Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:
Tomko strong, but suffers injury in win — Righty tosses five scoreless innings, but strains oblique muscle — LOS ANGELES — Brett Tomko eliminated the bad pitches Friday night, but not the bad luck. — Tomko had to leave after five scoreless innings with a strained left oblique muscle …