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Questions linger over substance on Rogers' hand — DETROIT — Kenny Rogers pitched eight scoreless innings Sunday, running his shutout streak this postseason to 23 innings, but that may be the least of the news about the 41-year-old left-hander coming out of Game 2 of the World Series.
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Ronald Blum / Associated Press:
Detroit 3, St. Louis 1 — DETROIT (AP) — Now you see it. Now you don't. — Whatever was on Kenny Rogers' hand, even after he cleaned it off, the St. Louis Cardinals couldn't hit him. — Virtually untouchable this October, Rogers shut down the Cardinals on two hits over eight shutout innings …
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Samara Pearlstein / Roar of the Tigers:
World freakin' Series Game 1: Reyes the Roof — I'm almost, almost ashamed of that pun. But not really. Because the Tigers should be more ashamed. — Not to take anything away from Anthony Reyes, of course, not a bit of it. The kid pitched his little red feathery tail off out there …
Ken Rosenthal / Fox Sports:
Can't call the Cards a fluke anymore — DETROIT - One game changes everything. — FOX Bite — Videos — Rookie Reyes carries Cards — No longer can the Cardinals be mocked as World Series pretenders. — No longer can first baseman Albert Pujols be considered the only threat in the Cardinals' lineup.
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Jayson Stark / ESPN:
Final answer? Leyland makes wrong choice on Pujols … DETROIT — Suppose we ran an ESPN SportsNation poll on this question: — It's Game 1 of the World Series. You're trailing the St. Louis Cardinals by one run. There's a runner on second, meaning first base is open.
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Rolen makes bid to clean up — DETROIT — Visions of Endy Chavez dancing in his mind's eye, Cardinals third baseman Scott Rolen headed for first base Saturday after taking his next best swing of the postseason calculating how this bolt to left field could end badly. — It is been that kind of October.
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Bill Plaschke / Los Angeles Times:
Passive Tigers can't even ruffle Cardinals' feathers — DETROIT — On a cool night misting with decades of dreams, Bob Seger offered a stirring rendition of "America the Beautiful." — He should have sang, "Beautiful Loser." — In a cozy city ballpark teeming with striped and howling hope …
Jack Curry / New York Times:
St. Louis Rally Starts When Taguchi Is Called Out — So Taguchi saw the hit-and-run sign, which meant that, no matter what, he needed to make contact with the ball. Even if Taguchi had to resort to throwing the bat at the baseball, it was imperative that he put it in play against the Detroit Tigers in the third inning.
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Joe Lapointe / New York Times:
La Russa and Leyland, Longtime Friends, Focus on Their Players — Few managers in baseball are closer friends than Tony La Russa of the St. Louis Cardinals and Jim Leyland of the Detroit Tigers, whose teams will meet in the World Series beginning tonight in Comerica Park.
Dan Shaughnessy / Boston Globe:
Games this late get cold reception — FROSTBITE FALLS, Mich. — It gets cold and windy in Detroit in October. Big surprise. — The Tigers and Cardinals went back to work at Comerica Park last night and it was 44 degrees Fahrenheit (windchill factor 33) when Kenny Rogers threw the first pitch …
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Associated Press:
Actor de la Rosa, Pedro's tiny good luck charm, dies — SANTO DOMINGO — Nelson de la Rosa, the world's shortest actor and a ubiquitous good-luck charm for the Boston Red Sox during their victorious 2004 World Series run, died at a New York hospital on Sunday, his agent said.
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Players, owners agree to tentative 5-year labor deal — DETROIT — Baseball players and owners have reached a tentative agreement on a five-year labor contract, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press. — The deal, struck during bargaining in New York …
Alyson Footer / MLB.com:
Unsung hero Monroe sparks Tigers — Game 2 homer jump-starts Detroit's much-needed win — DETROIT — To win in the postseason, it takes contributions from just about everyone — but often, it's the players you don't hear much about that do the most damage. — Take Craig Monroe, for instance.
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NY Daily News:
Hat's off to Randolph — You always see these interviews, the quiet interview with the losing coach or losing manager at the other end of the hall from where the trophy is being handed out, all the noise coming from down there. — Willie Randolph was at this end of the hall now after Game 7 …
Jeff Matthews / The Gas House Gang:
Cardinals Take Game One in Blow Out Win — This was a game even I was writing off. Anthony Reyes came in to pitch as a stop gap because of how long the Cards series went with the Mets and not only did he keep us in the game, he exceeded expectations. He ran into trouble in the first inning …
Fox Sports:
Are Cards worst World Series team ever? — After a relatively easy series win over the Padres and a white-knuckled NLCS victory over the Mets, it's easy to forget that the NL champion St. Louis Cardinals won only 83 games in the regular season. — As well, they had the worst record …
Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Shortchanged by 'Moneyball' — DETROIT — You could see clearly that Ken Macha and Billy Beane were not going to coexist indefinitely, whether the Oakland A's were World Series champions or not. There was a clash of philosophies — the traditional manager vs. the general manager and his pioneering "Moneyball" theory.
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