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Basil / Federal Baseball:
Cy Bergmann — I'm sure something like this has happened before in baseball history, you know, but it's not like you could easily look it up. There's no system that can really capture what Jason Bergmann is doing, no online search able to express "Low minors starter, converted to relief …
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David O'Brien / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Smoltz injured in Braves' 2-1 loss — Washington — For a while Monday night, the Braves and John Smoltz thought a promising season had taken a dreadful turn. — The right pinky of Smoltz's pitching hand was bent upward at a grotesque angle. The veteran, overcome with anger …
Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
Winning Bid for Bergmann — Nats Starter Pitches Seven No-Hit Innings to Earn First Victory of Season: Nationals 2, Braves 1 — A month ago, the vision of a throng of people gathered at RFK Stadium chanting "Berg-mann! Berg-mann!" would have seemed downright preposterous.
Mark Hale / New York Post:
CLIFF THE CUB RETURNS, BUT DOESN'T — Cliff Floyd is playing in his native Chicago this year, where - because he's on the National League side of town - he doesn't have to put in long days. — "It's been great," he said yesterday. "Done at 5:00 every day. You can't beat it."
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NorthJersey.com:
Mets notebook — Moises Alou smiled, complimented his trainers' treatment, and talked up the power of anti-inflammatories. Then he said he still wasn't ready to play baseball. — "I don't want to use the word DL again," the left fielder said, some 24 hours after predicting his strained quad is "probably going to be a DL thing."
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George King / New York Post:
ADD CASHMAN TO LIST OF THOSE WARY OF BOSTON'S RED-HOT START — Brian Cashman remains wedded to the mantra that there is a lot of time to right the Yankees ship. However, the GM agrees with Johnny Damon's belief that if the Red Sox continue to win 70 percent of their games, the AL East is going to have a new champion.
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Mike Lupica / NY Daily News:
Old swagger now staggered — In Chicago tonight, the Yankees begin a dirty dozen of games against the White Sox, Mets, Red Sox, Angels. It is a schedule rougher than Lindsay Lohan's. When asked about those 12 games yesterday, Brian Cashman invoked the language of 12-step programs.
Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Mets walk past Cubs — North Siders blow 4-run lead, lose on BB with bases loaded — NEW YORK — Cubs manager Lou Piniella's fuse is getting shorter by the day, and he's likely to explode in the next few days if his bullpen continues blowing games. — The Cubs, minus Derrek Lee …
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Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:
Greater expectations: Dice-K's CG fails to impress Detroit — Judging by their postgame comments last night at Fenway Park [map], it was clear the Detroit Tigers had expected to be spellbound by a classic when it came to facing Daisuke Matsuzka for the first time. — Sports Tuesday:
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Samara Pearlstein / Roar of the Tigers:
Oh Seay can you see how bad his pitching is? — Way, waaaaay more photos to come, obviously, but I wanted to get this thing rolling. I'm keepin' it simple here. — 1. Tigers fan bandwagon jumping not as great as expected. I expected to see a lot more Tigers fans this year, after last season.
Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pirates Notebook: Bautista could return this week — There will be no disabled list for Jose Bautista. — He might not even miss a week. — That was the diagnosis for the Pirates' third baseman yesterday afternoon, a day after his left ankle was sprained on an ugly collision at home plate.
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Dejan Kovacevic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:Gorzelanny golden again in Pirates' 7-0 shutout
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Brian O'Neill / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:Stats Geek: Pirates need a few more laughers
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Jeff Zrebiec / Baltimore Sun:
O's frustration boils over … TORONTO // The Orioles arrived at the Rogers Centre yesterday afternoon intent on putting Sunday's devastating defeat to the Boston Red Sox behind them. Instead, they watched another of their top relievers lose a game and two of their veteran position players nearly come to blows after it.
Baseball America:
Prospect Hot Sheet: May 15 — Another week, another Hot Sheet. — We're a day late this week, mostly because the Baseball America World Headquarters is currently abuzz with happenings for the upcoming draft. Hot Sheet will go back to its regularly scheduled Monday timeslot beginning next week.
Joe Sheehan / Baseball Prospectus:
Prospectus Today: Dissecting the Sox — Dissecting the Sox — The Boston Red Sox have put up the best record in the game so far, and they've done so with a near-complete performance that makes it hard to consider them a fluke. — I say that because of one particular marker that stands out.
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Metswalkoffs / Mets Walk-Offs And Other Minutiae:
Cubs Spout — I kid you not, the song just finishing up on the radio as I pulled in my driveway at evening's conclusion was "Walk-Away Renee." How appropriate. — * Documented walk-off #343 in Mets history was the team's 2nd walk-off win of the year and first since Endy Chavez's drag bunt walk-off hit on April 24th.
Carter Gaddis / TBO.com:
Devil Rays Reach Out To Wider Audience — TAMPA - The Devil Rays need not market themselves to Jason Collette. The Orlando resident already keeps a Carl Crawford poster tacked to the wall near his desk at work, right next to the miniature Rays helmet and the stuffed teddy bear in a Rays uniform.
