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 …

DeRosa injures finger; Fontenot expected to join Cubs  —  NEW YORK — The Cubs are expected to call-up infielder Mike Fontenot from Triple-A Iowa on Tuesday to take the place of Mark DeRosa, who suffered a finger injury while playing first base during Monday night's game at Shea Stadium.

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."

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.

Something's Brewin'  —  Fast-starting Milwaukee has history on its side  —  There's a little parlor game sweeping baseball, particularly now that Milwaukee, now playing the varsity portion of its schedule, has dropped three of its past four games after a 24-10 start.  The game is to guess, Are the Brewers for real?

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.

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.

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.

MOTA RETURNS FROM 'ROID BAN  —  Guillermo Mota made his Zephyrs debut Monday night at Las Vegas.  Pitching for Triple-A New Orleans, Mota pitched a scoreless eighth, allowing one hit and striking out one batter in a 7-5 loss.  Barring a rainout, he'll be activated May 30, for the Mets' 51st game.

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:

Dejan Kovacevic chat transcript  —  habib20: Hi Dejan.  With the offense being so wretched the entire season coupled with a 16-20 mark, are we to be encouraged at this point?  If this were last year, the Pirates would be lucky to be winning at a .200 clip let alone hanging around .500.

Beckett progressing  —  Josh Beckett played catch and actually threw off a mound today according to Terry Francona, who said he was encouraged by Beckett's recovery.  Francona said Beckett will see a hand specialist sometime today.  —  Francona said "regardless of whether he pitches on Friday …

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.