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Mark Feinsand / NY Daily News:
Joba leaves team after dad collapses — BOSTON - The Yankees likely will be without Joba Chamberlain on Monday night in Tampa Bay, as the reliever left the team on Sunday night to tend to his ailing father. — According to sources, Harlan Chamberlain collapsed at his home in Lincoln …
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Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Report: Joba leaves to be with father — Elder Chamberlain in critical condition after collapsing — BOSTON — Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain left the team after Sunday's game to tend to his ailing father, the New York Daily News reported. — The newspaper said that Harlan Chamberlain collapsed …
New York Post:
YOUNG GUNS ARE KILLIN' YANKS — Right now the Yankees' biggest problem is not that a Red Sox jersey was buried at the new stadium. It is that Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy are doing a pretty fair imitation of Tyler Clippard and Matt DeSalvo. — The Yanks ordered an excavation and the jersey issue …
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Help Wanted: Yankees Need Catcher After Falling at Fenway — BOSTON — It was an old Yankees manager, Casey Stengel, who made the definitive comment on the importance of a catcher to a baseball team: “You have to have a catcher, because if you don't, you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.”
Associated Press:
Chamberlain leaves Yanks to be with ailing father — NEW YORK — Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain left the team after his father collapsed at his home in Lincoln, Neb., the Daily News reported Monday on its Web site. — Harlan Chamberlain was hospitalized Monday at St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center in Lincoln.
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Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Add Molina to the injury list — The Yankees need a catcher. Jose Molina strained his left hamstring in the fourth inning, which is why he had to leave the game in the eighth. — “He sucked it up for us,” manager Joe Girardi said. — It's uncertain what the corresponding move …
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NY Daily News:
Jose Molina headed for disabled list — BOSTON - Jose Molina pulled his left hamstring sliding into the plate in the fourth inning Sunday night and could be headed for the disabled list, further thinning out the Yanks' already-depleted catching ranks. — Joe Girardi said after the 8-5 loss …
Kevin Kernan / New York Post:
SLOPPY PLAY, ATTITUDES — THE Mets are slipping down the same hole as last year. They lose what their angry manager calls a “giveaway” game to the Brewers, yet in some corners of the clubhouse life is good. — There's nothing really wrong. — After the pathetic 9-7 loss to the Brewers …
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Matthew Cerrone / MetsBlog.com:
Quote: Willie says the Mets are Sloppy — The Mets blew a four-run, third-inning lead yesterday, losing to the Brewers while leaving 10 men on base, hitting in to five double plays and making one error in the field, among others on the base paths. — Willie Randolph, while looking …
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USA Today:
Crowning the greatest New York Yankees team ever — Imagine what it would be like if all the great teams that have played at Yankee Stadium throughout its history could face off against each other ... How would the Murderers' Row squad of 1927 fare against Ron Guidry in his Louisiana Lightnin' prime?
Adam Rubin / NY Daily News:
Moises to play rehab game — Moises Alou's recovery from March 6 hernia surgery has progressed so well that he's expected to play in a rehab game in Port St. Lucie by this weekend, the Daily News has learned. — Fill-in Angel Pagan, who led off the past two games with Jose Reyes …
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Jeff Passan / Yahoo! Sports:
Leyland lets loose on underperforming Tigers — CHICAGO - In his hotel room only a night earlier, a sense of calm had enveloped Jim Leyland. Somehow, in this most embarrassing of times, he had managed to restrain his incendiary temper that, legend has it, once caused him to deliver …
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Ken Mandel / MLB.com:
Jenkins bats leadoff for first time — With Rollins, Victorino out, Manuel forced to alter lineup — PHILADELPHIA — The lineup had the look of a manager searching: Geoff Jenkins leading off, followed by Jayson Werth. — That's what happens when Phillies skipper Charlie Manuel's two leadoff candidates …
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Rob Maaddi / Associated Press:Cubs beat Phils in 10 on Utley's error
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Rick Eymer / MLB.com:
Bowker, Lincecum star in Giants' win — Rookie homers for second straight game; starter strikes out 11 — SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants called up John Bowker to provide a little bit of power, and he's already overloaded the circuit. — Bowker, who struggled during Spring Training and early …
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Dave Rouleau / Baseball Digest Daily:Championship Drought — I was surfing the stats-packed bible …
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the green fields of the mind:
this picture was taken at tradition field during a saturday afternoon game in March. we took this picture not because it was a Met we knew but because the guy was gracious enough to scoop up dirt off the field because some kid asked him to. another kid repeated the request. then another …
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Say Hey, Giants Fans Show Their Wistful Side — The members of the New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia Society know this: Their team's history is just as rich as that of the Brooklyn Dodgers. — Their Giants won more pennants and World Series titles than the Dodgers did.
Joe Christensen / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Liriano plays it cool on eve of 2008 debut — Francisco Liriano — once again — will be making a highly anticipated appearance in a Twins uniform when he takes the mound today. — KANSAS CITY, MO. — Twins pitcher Francisco Liriano is no stranger to the anticipation surrounding him today …
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