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Matthew Leach / MLB.com:
Cards one win from title after thriller — Eckstein's RBI double puts away Tigers in Game 4 — ST. LOUIS — They waited out yet another rain delay. They waited out an early deficit and some shaky command by starting pitcher Jeff Suppan. They waited, and waited, and waited, for David Eckstein to get sorted out.
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Sam Donnellon / Philly.com:
Eckstein small in stature, but comes up big again — ST. LOUIS - The game ended with another one of those throws, the ones that seem as if David Eckstein puts everything he has into it, every muscle, every fiber, every boney little bone. — The St. Louis Cardinals are going for the jugular tonight …
Dallas Morning News:
Facing elimination, Tigers sit best pitcher — ST. LOUIS - Detroit's Jim Leyland manages by feel and not by statistical mandate. So, at times, in this World Series his decisions have defied logic and he's invited interested parties to second-guess him. — Well, since he invited. ...
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Brian Borawski / Hardball Times:
World Series: Cardinals vs. Tigers: Cardinals Comeback — In a lot of ways, this was the best game of the 2006 World Series. You had the Tigers, who were down 2-1 in the series, come out hitting the ball and taking an early three-run lead. Then you saw the Cardinals come back and take the lead …
Janie McCauley / Associated Press:
Bochy agrees in principle to become Giants' new manager — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Diego Padres manager Bruce Bochy has agreed to become the new skipper of the San Francisco Giants, and was still working out details Thursday night after meeting with team officials most of the day.
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Bochy agrees to become Giants manager — SAN FRANCISCO — With Bruce Bochy set to go to Japan on Monday to manage a group of major leaguers in an exhibition tour, the Giants had to move fast to pry him away from the Padres. — After a day of talks, that's apparently just what they did.
Associated Press:
Opening the Flood-gates — Just like in '68 Series, a slip in the outfield proves big — ST. LOUIS (AP) — Curt Flood and Curtis Granderson will be forever linked for their World Series flops on the outfield grass in St. Louis. — In 1968, Flood took a tumble at old Busch Stadium …
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Rick Hummel / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Redbirds have not done well with 3-1 leads in the Series — Common sense dictates that the Cardinals are right where they want to be after four games in the World Series, as they embrace a 3-1 lead over the Detroit Tigers. — In all seven-game World Series played since 1903 …
Mike Fitzpatrick / Associated Press:Cardinals 5, Tigers 4 — ST. LOUIS (AP) — With some help …
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Joel Sherman / New York Post:
FACE IT, YOU JUST CAN'T KEEP SHEFF SATISFIED — All you need to know about Gary Sheffield is that he was furious in spring training that the Yankees would not pick up his 2007 option and now he is furious that they are planning to pick up the $13 million option.
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Newsday:
Donnie next to Joe — Both as bench coach in '07 and top candidate to be Torre's successor — Guessing Joe Torre's successor has long been a parlor game for Yankees fans. But never in Torre's 11 years as Yankees manager has a plan for succession seemed as clear as it does now.
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Mark Hale / New York Post:
SOURCE: METS NOT GUNNING FOR BIG 3 — Two big names - Barry Zito and Alfonso Soriano - will be free agents this fall, and a third big name, Manny Ramirez, could available in a trade. But right now, according to a source familiar with the situation, the Mets are not interested in pursuing any of them.
Kat O'Brien / Dallas Star-Telegram:
RANGERS NOTES — Hillman ready to start process — ST. LOUIS — Trey Hillman, one of five candidates for the Rangers' managerial opening, is through managing the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in the Japan Series. The Fighters won the best-of-seven championship four games to one with a 4-1 win Thursday over the Chunichi Dragons.
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John Brattain / Hardball Times:
Credit Where It's Due — Black is white, up is down, cats chase dogs, boy bands play instruments, David Samson and I are going out for a beer, Paris Hilton is judged on merit and Britney Spears on her music. — Why not? I'm about to do the unthinkable (doubtless my editors are thinking …
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Plan aims to tame wild cards — St. Louis - When the general managers meet in Naples, Fla., in two weeks, there will be a lively discussion about taming the wild card. — Commissioner Bud Selig has broached the idea of making it more difficult for wild cards to win the World Series.
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If Aaron Sorkin wrote a show about baseball — This is how I imagine a typical scene would go. — EXT. KAUFFMAN STADIUM — NIGHT … LEO — You can't get a good lobster in this town. — DANNY — Last I checked we were in Kansas City. — LEO
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