Duncan keeps them cheering  —  Rookie receives repeat curtain calls with two more homers  —  NEW YORK — Shelley Duncan sure knows how to make a good first impression.  —  After waiting six years for his chance in the big leagues, the 27-year-old rookie made the most of an extended weekend in the Bronx …

Notes: Castillo dealing with visa woes  —  Second baseman runs into last-minute issues for Canada trip  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The Twins might be short one player on the team charter to Toronto following Sunday's game — that is if an airplane from Miami is delayed.

Tulsa Drillers coach dies after being struck by line drive  —  NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Tulsa Drillers coach Mike Coolbaugh died Sunday night after being struck in the head by a line drive as he stood in the first-base coach's box during a Texas League game with the Arkansas Travelers, police said.

Little scrambles, Dodgers end up fried  —  Mets score in final three frames for 10-inning victory  —  LOS ANGELES — It wasn't on the promotional calendar, but Sunday at Dodger Stadium was turn-back-the-clock day.  —  Nomar Garciaparra looked like a home-run hitter again.  Derek Lowe was a reliever again.

Happy to deliver good news on Lester  —  It stopped being about baseball late last August when doctors told Jon Lester he had a treatable form of anaplastic large cell lymphoma.  —  After that, it became about nothing other than the long-term health and well being of a 22-year-old …

Notes: Nats making a play for Dunn  —  LIKE THIS STORY?  —  It's no secret that Nationals general manager Jim Bowden covets Reds left fielder Adam Dunn — and no surprise that the Nats are pursuing Dunn, according to major-league sources.  —  Whether the Nationals can obtain Dunn is another question.

Joba juice?  —  The Yankees' current thinking on the trade market it that position players will be available to upgrade their bench - Saturday night's trade for backup catcher Jose Molina, for example - but pitchers will be hard to come by.  —  With that in mind, the Yankees …

Notes: Fast times for Milledge?  —  Easley's father passes; Valentin's injury clouds trade situation  —  LOS ANGELES — There is more than one way for a coach to get his point across, and more than one place to do so.  Howard Johnson is the Mets hitting coach — officially and as permanently as any coach.

White Sox roughed up in Boston  —  Southpaw Danks allows four runs, seven hits in six innings  —  BOSTON — Sixty-six games remain in what only currently can be considered as nothing short of a hugely disappointing 2007 season for the White Sox.  —  That total gives the South Siders …

Former colleagues in Maddon's corner … NEW YORK - At this point, it would be a surprise to many people if the Devil Rays don't, in the next month or so, pick up manager Joe Maddon's two-year option.  —  Principal owner Stuart Sternberg and executive VP Andrew Friedman said recently …

Rebuilding not in plans for Astros  —  McLane says only retooling is needed for club to contend  —  Drayton McLane is spending the weekend in Birmingham, Ala., enjoying part of Saturday with his grandson at the zoo.  Above all, McLane has proved to be a family man, committed to his wife …