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.

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.

Ex-mates' behavior wasn't exactly angelic  —  This could be one of those player feuds that, 20 years from now, neither one will know how it started.  —  Today, however, that's not the case.  —  Jose Guillen and Brendan Donnelly were teammates with the Angels in 2004 when Guillen criticized …

Kim, Lawrence hit crossroads  —  Los Angeles - With the roster traffic jammed, pitchers Byung-Hyun Kim and Brian Lawrence are speeding toward a critical intersection that could determine their futures with the Rockies.  —  Kim said Tuesday he's no longer angry about not making the rotation, but would welcome a trade.

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.

Young extended for $14.5 million through 2010  —  Right-hander, 27, didn't want to be traded again  —  There's one statistic in Chris Young's baseball résumé that the pitcher doesn't want to see expand.  —  "I've already been traded three times," the 27-year-old right-hander said yesterday.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Beckett feasts: No need for nibbling  —  Give a pitcher a big lead early in the game, and chances are the guy will lapse into hit-it-if-you-can mode, busting fastballs over the plate and challenging hitters.  —  Red Sox home opener:  —  Then again, a critic would argue that hit …

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.