Mets' win streak in Arizona reaches 12  —  PHOENIX (AP) — The New York Mets picked up right where they left off against Randy Johnson.  —  Paul Lo Duca and Julio Franco homered against The Big Unit to lead the Mets to a 5-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.

Baseball's Steroid Panel Asks Active Players to Appear  —  The chairman of the special commission set up to examine the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball said for the first time yesterday that he has asked a number of active players to appear before the commission …

Yankees and the Red Sox Could Open 2008 in Asia  —  The Yankees and the Boston Red Sox extended their rivalry all the way to Asia in November, when the Red Sox beat the Yankees in their bid to sign the star Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka.  Next March, Japanese baseball fans could experience the rivalry up close.

Brewers' owner likes rare view from above  —  MILWAUKEE — His friends told him he was absolutely nuts.  His wife, Debbie, figured he was joking or going through a midlife crisis.  —  PHOTO GALLERY: The '07 Brewers how they lookin'?  —  "The Milwaukee Brewers?"  Mark Attanasio kept hearing over and over from friends.

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 …

McCarthy cruises as Rangers down Jays  —  Right-hander allows just two hits and one run in six innings  —  ARLINGTON — Perhaps it was the pregame players-only meeting that eased growing tension and cleared the air.  —  Perhaps it was a group of veteran hitters, tired of underachieving and ready to finally punish a nemesis.

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 …

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 …

Indians lose home game due to snowouts  —  BALTIMORE (AP) — The Cleveland Indians will lose a home game and three days off in making up the four-game series against Seattle that was postponed last month by snow.  —  The games of April 6-8 will be played at Jacobs Field on May 21, June 11 and Aug. 30.

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.

Loewen diagnosed with stress fracture in elbow … Orioles pitcher Adam Loewen has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his left elbow and isn't expected to return to the mound until late in the season.  —  Loewen had a bone scan and magnetic resonance imaging test this morning …

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 …

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.