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Report: Manny sorry after shoving Red Sox official — The Red Sox are confident it wasn't Manny just being Manny. — Manny Ramirez has apologized for pushing the team's traveling secretary to the ground in the visitors clubhouse during a confrontation Saturday in Houston, according to a report in The Providence Journal.
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Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:
Red Sox dealing with threat — Beef up security for Tampa Bay trip — + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email — HOUSTON - The Red Sox [team stats] and Major League Baseball have dispatched security teams to St. Petersburg, Fla., for the next three days due to a recent threat made against the club's players.
Sean McAdam / Providence Journal:
Manny Ramirez apologizes after shoving Sox' traveling secretary — HOUSTON — Maybe it's something in the water in Houston. — Days after Houston Astros pitcher Shawn Chacon tackled general manger Ed Wade in the home clubhouse at Minute Maid Park, the visitors clubhouse was the scene …
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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
More on Manny-McCormick altercation — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Long-time Red Sox traveling secretary Jack McCormick said he bears no ill will toward outfielder Manny Ramirez in the wake of an incident Saturday afternoon in Houston in which Ramirez shoved McCormick to the clubhouse floor …
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Jack Curry / Bats:
Yanks Recall Gardner, Top Prospect — The Yankees will have a new player when they oppose the Texas Rangers at Yankee Stadium on Monday night. Brett Gardner, a speedy outfielder, told The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg, S.C., his hometown newspaper, that the Yankees had summoned him to the Bronx.
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Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Yankees to call up Gardner — According to an article in his hometown paper, the Yankees have called up OF Brett Gardner. A second source confirmed it at 1 a.m. — Gardner was at .287/.412/.429 through 80 games for Scranton. He had three homers, 29 RBI and 34 stolen bases.
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Tim Sullivan / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Padres organization soon could reach crossroads in woeful season — A week ago, Sandy Alderson was waffling. He was wiggling. He was waiting. Rather than pick a pigeonhole he might later wish to leave, the Padres' Harvard-trained CEO cleverly characterized his ballclub not as buyers or sellers …
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Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Padres Likely To Sell — By Tim Dierkes [June 30 at 11:13am CST] — The Padres have lost eight in a row, slipping to 9.5 games out in the NL West. CEO Sandy Alderson says “it's probably easier to see us as sellers at this point.” He added that they could still look to buy if the Padres …
David Andriesen / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:Mariners savor sweep over San Diego Padres
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Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Nine-Game Test Awaits the Yankees — The schedule says the Texas Rangers will make their only appearance at Yankee Stadium this week, but that is not exactly accurate. A chunk of the Rangers' lineup will probably come back next month for the All-Star Game.
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Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Game 83: Rangers at Yankees — YANKEES (44-38) — Scott Feldman (1-3, 4.60) vs. the New York hitters. — Mike Mussina (10-5, 3.93) vs. the Texas hitters. — Notes: Thanks to Mike Dougherty for calling in the lineup. ... OF Justin Christian was optioned down. ...
USA Today:
INSIDE PITCH — Second baseman Dan Uggla said his sprained left ankle felt better Sunday but chances are he won't return to action until Thursday at the earliest. — Uggla left Saturday's game in the fourth inning after he took a hard turn toward second base on a single then lost his footing and stumbled in the dirt.
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Juan C. Rodriguez / Sun-Sentinel:Marlins Dan Uggla's sprained left ankle won't keep him out long
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Gordon Edes / Boston Globe:
Sox are stuck in second — Offense can't get in gear vs. Astros — Red Sox manager Terry Francona talks about Josh Beckett's solid outing and his team's need to stick with reliever Hideki Okajima despite his recent struggles. — HOUSTON - The assumption, from the time the MLB computers spat …
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Rick Hummel / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cards go back to 13 pitchers — With the Cardinals' bullpen having been taxed by an early exit from RHP Braden Looper on Sunday, the club has gone back to 13 pitchers, at least for the four-game series with the New York Mets. — Righthander Brad Thompson, who has been up and down a couple …
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Rich Lederer / Baseball Analysts:
Examining Omar Vizquel — When a 41-year-old shortstop goes 1-for-his-last-32, is it not fair to wonder if he has reached the end of the line? Is he just in a slump or is it something bigger than that? — The player in question is Omar Vizquel. To try and answer the above questions …
Daedalus / Church of Baseball:
Road trip — Over the rivers and through the woods to Jacob's Field we go. — The car knows the way to carry us through the rain and lightening oh. — Across the fields and through the plains the city stands on high. — The mistake by the lake was such a dump its river caught on fire!
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Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Girardi: Kennedy has to earn his way back — Did you know that Ian Kennedy was activated off the disabled list on Wednesday? He was - and at the same time was optioned to Single-A Tampa. — Kennedy has to prove himself all over again in the eyes of Brian Cashman, Joe Girardi and Dave Eiland.
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