Glavine passes 2,500 K mark  —  Mets left-hander passes Mathewson on all-time list  —  PHOENIX — Tom Glavine's inexorable march to his 300th career victory stalled for the third consecutive outing on Thursday night.  But that didn't stop the Mets left-hander from garnering a couple of more milestones on the way to Cooperstown, N.Y.

Police: Hancock was legally drunk at time of crash  —  ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock was drunk at the time of his fatal accident, and marijuana was found in the sport utility vehicle he was driving.  —  Police Chief Joe Mokwa also said at a news conference Friday …

Soriano keys Cubs' rally past Nationals  —  CHICAGO (AP) — Derrek Lee homered, Alfonso Soriano had a key RBI double before scoring the go-ahead run against his former team and the Chicago Cubs rallied from four runs down Friday to beat the Washington Nationals 6-4.

Aim For The Head: Aim For the Front Office  —  Baseball Prospectus has, since its inception, been dedicated to the concept that that there are better ways for major league baseball teams to make decisions.  Augmenting conventional, scouting-based reports with objective evidence gathered through analysis …

D-Day For MLB Extra Innings  —  Today is the deadline for any carrier that did not already ink a deal for MLB Extra Innings to get an agreement signed, or they will be unable to negotiate for the package until 2013 when DirecTV and iN Demand's deal with MLB expires.As we've been reporting …

Tale of two failures — so far  —  Cubs spent big, White Sox held line and results are bad on both sides of town, but North Siders still could find their way to postseason play  —  The Cubs spent $300 million, defining a new pricey market for free agents and saying they were going for the World Series.

What happens in clubhouse, stays there  —  LAS VEGAS — When the star Dodger routinely showed up for day games still drunk from the previous night, the clubhouse guy knew his role.  —  "It was my job to protect the team," Dave Dickenson said.  "That's what I did."

Wait a sec, they're in second … ST. PETERSBURG — There were a lot of unusual things going on Thursday at Tropicana Field.  —  There was a mannequin in a Twins uniform playing defense on a catwalk.  Carl Crawford the contestant in the nightly stumble around the bases contest.

Notes: Reyes keeps producing  —  Shortstop has been one of game's most dangerous threats  —  PHOENIX — One way to measure offense is runs produced — runs batted in, plus runs, minus home runs.  Not surprisingly, Jose Reyes fares quite well in this area.

Prospectus Hit List: One Month Down  —  A Little Bit of Wright and a Big Bowl of Wrong: David Wright homers for the first time this year, but the rest of the news out of Queens isn't so good.  Injuries sideline Orlando Hernandez and Jose Valentin, and neither Mike Pelfrey …

Pray it ain't so!  —  Torre sis goes mum as she loses principal job at Queens school  —  Say it ain't so, Joe - a Torre is about to get a pink slip, but it's not who you think.  —  Sister Marguerite Torre will soon be out of work after 26 years as the beloved principal of the Nativity …

Piazza to DL on busy day for A's  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Oakland Athletics placed designated hitter Mike Piazza on the 15-day disabled list because of a sprained right shoulder Friday and purchased the contract of outfielder-DH Jack Cust from Triple-A Sacramento.