Left high and dry  —  Game suspended after rain delays  —  Miami - The Milwaukee Brewers and Florida Marlins will be the first major-league teams to benefit from the rule amendment for suspended games.  —  Play was suspended Tuesday night - actually at 12:03 this morning local time …

Cleveland 7, LA Angels 6  —  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Even if Milwaukee gets blanketed with the predicted 10 inches of snow overnight, Cleveland Indians manager Eric Wedge will wake up knowing that his team still can play baseball on Wednesday.  —  And given the events of the past week, he's pretty sure of one thing.

Boston braces for Matsuzaka's home debut  —  BOSTON — As things were winding down after the cancellation of a doubleheader in Cleveland on Monday, Ichiro Suzuki was walking in the hallway of the clubhouse at Jacobs Field.  —  He walked by Mariners coach John McLaren, who likes to keep Ichiro loose …

Church Gets Strong Start, To His Relief  —  If there was one player on the Washington Nationals who needed a solid start to the season, it just might have been outfielder Ryan Church, entering a pivotal year for his career.  And coming off an iffy spring training, the 28-year-old was somewhat concerned.

THE BOYS OF SUMMER  —  HAPPY ENDY  —  April 11, 2007 — The Amazins' outfielder is living the dream  —  Casual baseball fans may not necessarily know Endy Chavez's name, but they definitely remember his spectacular catch during the final game of last year's World Series.

Young starters thrill Peterson  —  With the mathematical precision we've come to expect from him, the Mets' professorial pitching coach, Rick Peterson, had a neat spin on the adage that the baseball season is a marathon, not a sprint, after Monday's home opener.

Rodriguez Hikes Socks and the Homers Follow  —  When Alex Rodriguez took batting practice Tuesday, he had these five hits in a row: fly ball off the right-field wall, two flies off the center-field wall, ground ball up the middle, fly ball into the left-field seats.

Wright Is Hurt In Orioles' Loss  —  Pitcher Leaves With Shoulder Stiffness: Tigers 3, Orioles 1  —  The Baltimore Orioles' most significant loss on Tuesday night was not reflected on the scoreboard.  With no outs and two men on in the sixth inning of a 3-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers …

Bidders Are Lining Up for a Chance to Own the Cubs  —  Thomas Begel badly wants to buy the Cubs, and in his seat behind home plate at Wrigley Field on Monday, he offered a wealthy fan's sentiment sure to be repeated by other bidders.  —  "How could you not want to own this team?" …

Bone spurs affecting Carpenter's elbow  —  PITTSBURGH — Cardinals medical supervisor Dr. George Paletta confirmed Tuesday that bone spurs are the source of an elbow impingement affecting ace Chris Carpenter but called it a "low to moderate" condition that should not imperil his season.

Legends Among Us: National League Pitchers  —  Usually, when we talk about active players who are headed to the Hall of Fame, we're referring to the obvious cases: think Greg Maddux or Manny Ramirez.  There are plenty of those guys around right now, dutifully climbing the all-time lists …

What If Robinson Had Played a Full Career?  —  This Sunday, baseball will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's first game at Ebbets Field.  As I wrote last week, the various well-meaning tributes to Robinson, by reducing him to a mere symbol, tend to obscure much about the political context …

For Lou, stats the way it goes  —  Piniella believes in numbers — as well as Eyre and Howry  —  Lou Piniella is a numbers guy.  —  And the numbers tell him that relievers Scott Eyre and Bob Howry, who have struggled in the first week of the season, won't keep putting up bad numbers.