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Associated Press:
Bonderman's perfect through five as Tigers advance to ALCS — CBS SportsLine.com wire reports — DETROIT — Three years ago, they lost 119 games and were a punchline. You know, the Detroit Tigers ... ha, ha, ha. — Funny game, baseball. — The Tigers are the ones laughing loudest now.
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Jason Beck / MLB.com:
Tigers rout Yankees to reach ALCS — Perfect into sixth, Bonderman secures matchup with Oakland — DETROIT — The team that couldn't beat the Royals in three tries to win the American League Central overwhelmed the Yankees to win its AL Division Series instead.
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The Daily Fungo
George King / New York Post:
YANKS' LOSS IS UN-KENNY — TEAM ON BRINK AFTER ROGERS' GEM; JOE FUMES — DETROIT - Across nine innings, Joe Torre watched his Men Without Bats get dominated by Kenny Rogers. — So, in the aftermath of the Yankees' embarrassing 6- loss to the Tigers in Game 3 of the ALDS in front …
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Cutoff Man
Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Another Yanks' loss could lead to big changes — DETROIT - Not that anything is at stake Saturday, but if the Yankees lose, they could fire manager Joe Torre, trade third baseman Alex Rodriguez and kidnap Japanese right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka, just for starters.
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Yankees, Looking Powerless, Face Elimination — Derek Jeter grimacing after he failed to complete a double play in the second. Sean Casey, left, was out, but Curtis Granderson beat Jeter's throw to first as a run scored. — The Detroit Tigers are three years removed from losing 119 games.
NY Daily News:
Ancient Randy only raises old questions — DETROIT - It has happened again, somehow. Joe Torre has gone through another season declaring, over and over, that the game of baseball is all about pitching. And yet here he is, down to an elimination Game 4 in the playoffs today with a bad matchup and without a sturdy starter.
Associated Press:
Rogers roasts Yankees, Tigers coast to 6-0 win in Game 3 — CBS SportsLine.com wire reports — DETROIT — Kenny Rogers stood alone near the mound and soaked in the cheers. He had stared down his past and all that pinstriped power, and now it was time to enjoy a night like no other.
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Surviving Grady
R.B. Fallstrom / Associated Press:
Padres defeat Cardinals, 3-1 — Dominant pitching by Young, key double by Branyan save San Diego from sweep — ST. LOUIS - Russell Branyan, Chris Young and Trevor Hoffman saved San Diego, stopping the St. Louis Cardinals from sweeping the Padres in the first round of the NL playoffs.
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Can't Stop The Bleeding
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Claire Smith / Philly.com:'Hells Bells' silenced for record-setting closer
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Baseball Musings
Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Buck O'Neil, Negro Leagues Pioneer, Is Dead at 94 — Buck O'Neil, a star first baseman and manager in the Negro leagues and a pioneering scout and coach in the major leagues who devoted the final decade of his life to chronicling the lost world of black baseball, died last night in Kansas City, Mo. He was 94.
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Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Edmonds fights pain for playoff gain — Jim Edmonds' most complicated season resumes this morning with a simple, painful truth. The Cardinals center fielder will arrive at Busch Stadium shortly before 9 a.m. and limp to the trainer's room, where he will accept a needle near the ball beneath his left foot.
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Ben Houser / ESPN:
Buckner: 'I try to look at it in a positive way' — Idaho. It is called the Gem State for good reason, covered by an amazing landscape, endless vegetation and vast mountains. — Today, this is the home of William Joseph Buckner. He is hardly recognizable in his current attire as the former hard-nosed major leaguer.
Chris De Luca / Chicago Sun Times:
Hendry hopes to name manager by end of October — General manager Jim Hendry began his week by not renewing Cubs manager Dusty Baker's contract and ended it by basically completing his list of potential replacements. Phase II of the managerial search begins next week, with the interviews.
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Bleed Cubbie Blue
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Murray Chass / New York Times:
'These Guys' Are Nearly as Good as Those Guys — Although they didn't demonstrate it yesterday in their 4-3 loss to Detroit, the Yankees have an awesome offense. Bobby Cox, the venerable Atlanta manager, who does not engage in hyperbole, has called the Yankees' lineup the best in baseball history.
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Hot Foot
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Tim Brown / Los Angeles Times:
Beimel Cut Hand in a Bar, Not Hotel — NEW YORK — Dodgers left-hander Joe Beimel said Thursday he was in a New York bar early Tuesday morning when he cut his pitching hand on a broken glass and not in his hotel room, as he had told team officials. — "I realize nothing good happens …
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The Eddie Kranepool Society
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Josh Suchon / Contra Costa Times:
Beane just glad it was a short series — A's notebook — OAKLAND — Billy Beane described the division series as "five hands of blackjack" and didn't look like a man who had just been dealt a 20 for three straight hands. — As the wild celebration continued in the A's clubhouse late Friday afternoon …
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Al's Ramblings
Gordon Wittenmyer / TwinCities.com:
Radke loathe to leave — Pitcher puts off saying he's done — OAKLAND, Calif. — Brad Radke has known this day was coming for more than two years. He said it then, and his weakening, throbbing shoulder made him even more certain of it this summer than he ever has been.
MLB.com:
Garciaparra, Thome win 2006 Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award presented by Viagra — Nomar Garciaparra of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Jim Thome of the Chicago White Sox are the recipients of the 2006 Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award presented by Viagra® …
