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Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Game 9: Yankees at Royals — YANKEES — Notes: Jorge Posada has been diagnosed with a shoulder strain according to the KC team doctor and should only miss a few days. It doesn't look like a DL. He had the MRI sent to Dr. James Andrews for confirmation and the Yankees will have their doctors look at it as well.
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Yankees' Offense Is All Wet in Kansas City — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Johnny Damon walked to lead off Wednesday's game, the Kansas City Royals' first baseman, Ross Gload, greeted him this way: “Man, you guys are dropping like flies.” — Damon bantered a little about the thigh injury …
Joe Capozzi / Palm Beach Post:
Marlins Notebook: Miller under orders to throw hard, not worry — WASHINGTON — Let it rip. — That's the order the Marlins have given to left-hander Andrew Miller, whose velocity hasn't touched 90 mph in either of his two starts this season. — The team said Miller's health is fine.
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Joe Frisaro / MLB.com:
Marlins' bats overcome Nationals — Jacobs homers twice, Hermida hits a pair of doubles in return — WASHINGTON — There were a number of promising signs for the Marlins on Wednesday night. — Scott Olsen gave the bullpen a breather with a quality outing.
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Juan C. Rodriguez / Sun-Sentinel:
Jacobs leads power play — WASHINGTON - When Jeremy Hermida said before Wednesday's game he wanted to make up for lost time, he probably wasn't referring to his error total. Yet on his first chance in the second inning, Hermida, who in 2007 led all right fielders with nine miscues, dropped a ball that led to an unearned run.
Howard Fendrich / Associated Press:Nats fall to Marlins for sixth straight loss
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Steve Buckley / Boston Herald:
Boos taste sweet to Renteria … Fenway fans may have had a blast last night as they endlessly booed former Red Sox [team stats] shortstop Edgar Renteria, who now plays for the Detroit Tigers. — But Renteria did not get battered by the booing. Instead, he turned it into a positive.
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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Tigers get on board — Sox lose Lowell to thumb injury — The one thing the Red Sox did better than just about anybody last season was stay healthy, a not insignificant reason they were the last team standing. — The Sox did not place a starting position player on the disabled list the entire season …
David Lennon / Newsday:
Duque out; Vargas on way in? — The Mets' patience with the fluctuating health of Orlando Hernandez finally ran out yesterday and the team is on the verge of signing Claudio Vargas to a minor-league contract to help fill the void, the pitcher's agent confirmed last night.
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Ronald Blum / Associated Press:
Indictment: Agents steered baseball players to doctor for performance-enhancing drugs — NEW YORK (AP)—A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday charged that unidentified agents for baseball players steered clients to a California physician linked in media reports to supplying Troy Glaus …
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Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Knee has Castillo in tight spot — Luis Castillo sat out Wednesday night's game against the Phillies, a day after pulling himself after four innings with tightness in his right knee. The second baseman speculated that the trouble isn't related to previous knee problems that led to surgery in October, and instead faulted the weather.
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Juan C. Rodriguez / Sun-Sentinel:
Building ballpark is daunting — WASHINGTON - If a notion exists that the hard part is over now that financing is in place for a downtown Miami ballpark, Marlins President David Samson wants to clear it up. — The work may now be more gratifying, but it's certainly no easier.
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Jason Anderson / Recordnet.com:
Sprague admits use of Andro — Pacific baseball coach also used amphetamines — STOCKTON - One of Stockton's most accomplished baseball players said that during his 11-year playing career he took substances that have since been banned by Major League Baseball.
Scott Merkin / MLB.com:
Sisco undergoes Tommy John surgery — Left-hander will miss 12 to 24 months during recovery period — CHICAGO — Andrew Sisco underwent Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery on Monday in New York and will be out of action between 12 to 24 months during his recovery period.
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Seth Kolloen / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
M's could use performance incentives — Editor's note: Seth Kolloen is executive editor of Sports Northwest Magazine. His work appears occasionally in the Seattle P-I. — WHO CHANGED THE calendar and put April right after September? — Just like last season, Mariners veterans are failing …
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Ken Davidoff / Newsday:
Dialing up all Hall of Famers for All-Star Game — Tributes and nostalgia have become an annual component of baseball's All-Star Game. For this year's Midsummer Classic, scheduled for July 15 at Yankee Stadium, Major League Baseball has a particularly ambitious plan.
MLB.com:
Pujols, Backe quarrel during BP — Argument stemmed from play at the plate on Tuesday — HOUSTON — Apparently, Brandon Backe and Albert Pujols aren't the best of friends. They've never liked each other, but until Wednesday, that was one of the better-kept secrets surrounding …
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