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Bruce Jenkins / San Francisco Chronicle:
A Very Classy Clubhouse — From Sporting Green columnist Bruce Jenkins in Detroit: — One of baseball's toughest men was moved to tears. Sitting at his locker, a towel draped over his head, Milton Bradley had been crying. His eyes were blood-red as he finally turned to face the media.
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South Side Sox
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Jason Beck / MLB.com:
Ordonez sends Tigers to sweep, Series — Walk-off homer lifts Detroit to first Fall Classic since 1984 — DETROIT — The Detroit renaissance is just about complete. — The team that sat at the historic bottom of the American League three years ago with an AL-record 119 losses has scratched, clawed, and pitched its way to the top.
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The Baseball Desert
Mychael Urban / MLB.com:
A's fight hard, but can't avoid sweep — Team disappointed, but proud of 2006 accomplishments — DETROIT — The moment Magglio Ordonez's two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth cleared the left-field wall Saturday night in Motown, one fine season moved to the next stage and one fine season ended.
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Cutoff Man
Jim Molony / MLB.com:
All-around game lands Polanco MVP — Strong defense complements .529 ALCS average to seal honor — DETROIT — He's listed in the media guide as 5-foot-10, a measurement that is probably a bit generous when it comes to Placido Polanco's actual height. — No one, however …
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Nico / Athletics Nation:
2006 Oakland A's (April-October) RIP — In hindsight, the A's never really had a chance in this series. They have absolutely no clue how to hit Kenny Rogers and absolutely no clue how to get Placido Polanco out. Every decision Leyland farted out there would be turned to gold by overachieving players …
Larry Lage / Associated Press:Monroe's bat helps Tigers take 3-0 lead in ALCS
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Blogging Baseball
Ronald Blum / Associated Press:
Trachsel awful and injured as Mets start to run short on starters — ST. LOUIS (AP) — First, Steve Trachsel was awful. Then, he got hurt. — Now it's up to Oliver Perez — yes, Oliver Perez — to keep the New York Mets in the NL championship series. — Trachsel lasted just three outs …
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Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com:
Focused Perez to start must-win game — Looking to even series, Mets turn to young left-hander — ST. LOUIS — It's not as if Oliver Perez hasn't started some big games before in his career, but none of them have been in the playoffs. And on Sunday night, because of the circumstances …
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It's Mets For Me
Lee Jenkins / New York Times:
Outfield Gets an A for Effort and a C for Coverage — The Mets used to have a right fielder with too much range. — It seemed like an enviable problem. Mike Cameron, the Gold Glove-winning center fielder, was in right. Carlos Beltrán, the free-agent prize, was in center.
Ben Shpigel / New York Times:
Trachsel Does Little but Place the Mets in a Big Pitching Bind — The ball stayed aloft for several seconds after smacking off Steve Trachsel's upper thigh, and in the time it took for it to plummet to the ground, beyond the infield, another injury had sucked the life out of an already strained pitching staff.
NY Daily News:
Pujols pulls no punches — Bat, mouth are trouble — Albert Pujols had an at-bat to remember last night, one that showcased all of his ability as the game's most dangerous hitter. In the seventh inning he fouled off six pitches from Guillermo Mota during an 11-pitch at-bat that ended …
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David Lennon / Newsday:
Never had a chance — Trachsel digs a hole and Suppan buries Mets' sluggish offense in it — ST. LOUIS — Steve Trachsel left last night's game shortly after taking Preston Wilson's second-inning grounder off his right thigh, but the pain from his bruised leg was nothing compared to what Trachsel did to the Mets in NLCS Game 3.
Jayson Stark / ESPN:
Taguchi stunningly becomes latest October hero … NEW YORK — These are the October moments that live forever. You see them happen. Thousands of witnesses can testify they happened. History will always be there to remind us that they happened. — And still you ask yourself: Did that really happen?
Associated Press:
Fox fires Lyons for racially insensitive comment — DETROIT — Fox baseball broadcaster Steve Lyons has been fired for making a racially insensitive comment directed at colleague Lou Piniella's Hispanic heritage on the air during Game 3 of the American League championship series.
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Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Lyons dismissed by FOX for remarks — Mota replaces former Major Leaguer in ALCS broadcast booth — DETROIT — The American League Championship Series underwent a quick lineup shuffle in the broadcast booth, with news coming down shortly before Saturday's Game 4 that FOX …
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Chicks Dig The Pitchers' Duel
Tom Krasovic / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Bochy person of interest, but no longer Cubs' focus — Towers admits others courting Pads manager — NEW YORK - Padres General Manager Kevin Towers said he and CEO Sandy Alderson told manager Bruce Bochy on Wednesday that other clubs have interest in hiring Bochy and that Bochy is free to talk to them.
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The Cub Reporter
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Scott Miller / CBS SportsLine.com:Managerial cake walk: Piniella to Cubs? Girardi to Nats?
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The Sports Frog
Sports Illustrated:
Closer Look — Rogers reinvents himself as postseason ace, mentor — DETROIT — The old guy ambled down the hallway with an ice pack on his left shoulder, then, after spotting his young protégé sitting in the Detroit Tigers players' dining room at Comerica Park, came to a sudden stop.
Joe Cowley / Chicago Sun Times:
Raines out as Sox coach — Leading the White Sox to their first World Series title in 88 years last season also brought manager Ozzie Guillen more responsibility. — Back in spring training, general manager Ken Williams handed the future decisions of the coaching staff to Guillen …
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