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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Back troubles KO Kielty and Ramírez — NEW YORK — Red Sox outfielder Bobby Kielty said he is scheduled to undergo X-rays and perhaps other tests to determine the cause of continuing back pain, the result, he said, of colliding with the low bullpen wall in right field at Fenway Park in his first game with the team 10 days ago.
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Peter's Red Sox Forever
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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Blast from their past — Damon levels Sox with decisive HR — NEW YORK — It's the time of year, Joe Torre said, when it doesn't matter whether you're seven games ahead or seven games behind. — "You really have to put the blinders on and deal with the present," said the Yankees manager …
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The Soxaholix
Jack Curry / New York Times:
Boston's Mr. Reliable May Be Mr. Available — When John Henry, the owner of the Boston Red Sox, was introduced at a charity event in Chicago last Saturday, the fans chanted, "Low-ell, Low-ell." More than 300 Red Sox devotees used their voices to tell Henry that they would like to see Mike Lowell playing third base in 2008.
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Red Sox Monster
Mike Fitzpatrick / Associated Press:
Pettitte stays hot as Yankees beat BoSox — NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Pettitte proved reliable again for the New York Yankees, right after they lost faith in Mike Mussina. — Pettitte halted another Yankees slide by winning his sixth straight start, and Johnny Damon hit a tiebreaking homer …
George King / New York Post:
JOHNNY ON SPOT VS. RED SOX — TWO-RUN BLAST SUPPORTS ANDY EFFORT — Andy Pettitte watched Monday night's slime in Detroit ooze out of a television and immediately understood it was his responsibility to remove the rancid stench that smothered the Yankees. — "I needed a good outing," the veteran lefty said.
Barry Svrluga / Washington Post:
On the Road, Nats Head the Wrong Way — The time for kudos and plaudits has passed, and what's left are the final 29 games of the season. Beginning May 11, the Washington Nationals — for whom so much doom was forecast before the season — began a stretch of more than three months …
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Tim Brown / Yahoo! Sports:
Acta goes the hard way — LOS ANGELES - Manny Acta sat in his office at RFK Stadium, measuring the trauma of three straight losses to the Detroit Tigers and the 32 runs his Washington Nationals had given up in them. — In his first season as a big-league manager, having been granted …
Roch Kubatko / Baltimore Sun:
O's yield 11 in 8th as skid reaches 7 — The Orioles wandered into the danger zone again last night, clutching a slim lead like an overstuffed purse, the late innings their dark alley. — Teams usually try to win games at this juncture. The Orioles try to avoid another mugging.
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Mussina to Lose His Spot in the Rotation, for Now — There are no games to waste in a race to the postseason, no time to let a proud veteran work through his problems with a playoff spot at stake. The Yankees delivered that point after last night's game, announcing that the rookie Ian Kennedy …
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Baseball Musings
Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:Mussina shows no progress in rout
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Boy of Summer, ESPN.com, Lady At The Bat, Keep Your Sox On In Brooklyn and WasWatching.com
Bernie Wilson / Associated Press:
Padres score 6 off Webb, now only 1 back — SAN DIEGO (AP) — No team in the NL West has beaten Brandon Webb more than San Diego, and the Padres came up with a big one on Tuesday night. — Mike Cameron homered to start a four-run rally off the reigning NL Cy Young winner in the sixth inning …
David O'Brien / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Braves strike out with switch — Smoltz comes up short on three days' rest; Francoeur ejection pivotal — Miami — Just when it looked like the worst night of Jeff Francoeur's major league career couldn't get any uglier, it did. And it cost the Braves dearly.
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Talking Chop
Joe Frisaro / MLB.com:
Notes: Gregg focused on winning — Closer not concerned with lack of save chances recently — MIAMI — One byproduct of being in a losing cycle is your closer gets very few save chances. — Marlins closer Kevin Gregg is going through that right now. — Gregg's last four outings …
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FishStripes
Mark Hale / New York Post:
PEDRO COULD BE ON MOVE — Pedro Martinez is almost certainly going to have a fifth rehab start, and while the specifics are still being determined, it might not be for St. Lucie. — Martinez has made all four rehab starts in A-ball, and Omar Minaya has said going to a higher level isn't required before rejoining the Mets.
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Mets Fever
Dan Gelston / Associated Press:
Howard's HR in 10th lifts Phils by Mets — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Aaron Rowand's swinging bunt took three small hops until it trickled to a dead stop maybe 45 feet down the third-base line, the baseball's stitches kissing the chalk. — Ryan Howard's hefty cut went about 400 feet and sent the Phillies faithful into a frenzy.
T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com:
Notes: Botts wants to get bat going — Designated hitter expects to contribute more at the plate — ARLINGTON — The temperature was 97 degrees at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington about four hours before game time on Tuesday, but Jason Botts was still among those out on the field for early batting practice.
