Shea bye to Manny talk  —  Mets officials awaited speculation linking them to Manny Ramirez, but didn't foresee any dialogue with the Red Sox occurring, much less a deal materializing.  —  Almost every time over the last few years that Ramirez has seemed to be on his way out of Boston …

Treanor to see specialist for injured hip  —  Starting catcher has been on disabled list since July 8  —  CHICAGO — Still feeling discomfort, Marlins catcher Matt Treanor will be examined by a specialist in Philadelphia on Monday.  —  On the disabled list since July 8 with a left hip strain, Treanor had been catching some bullpens.

Madden: Mazeroski says Pirates were robbed  —  COOPERSTOWN - Did the Yankees just get revenge for 1960?  —  As word of the Yankees' trade for Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte from the Pirates filtered through the annual party thrown by Hall of Fame chairman Jane Clark on Friday night …

Sexson: Washburn would be big help  —  BOSTON - As of last night, the Yankees and Mariners had not agreed to terms on a trade that would send lefthanded starter Jarrod Washburn to the Bronx.  But that does not mean a deal will not be made in the next several days.

Orioles halt Sunday streak  —  Team ends skid after 15 straight losses; Olson allows 2 runs in 6 innings for win  —  They met at Kevin Millar's locker 30 minutes before today's first pitch, a players-only gathering that was aimed at ending a confounding 15-game losing streak on Sunday …

Texas Rangers' home attendance on pace to hit 20-year low  —  gjacobson@dallasnews.com  —  Major League Baseball appears immune to the sluggish economy and could set another attendance record this season.  But the Rangers, on pace for their first winning season in four years, are suffering at the gate.

Atkins quietly crushing opposing pitching again  —  Like a well-tuned machine, Garrett Atkins keeps cranking out the hits, sometimes doing it so efficiently that you barely notice him.  You notice he unloads with a two-run bomb, as he did in the fourth inning Sunday.

Baseball Team Clashes With Environmentalists Over Oil Company Advertising  —  WASHINGTON — When the Washington Nationals' season opened in March, the team unveiled a stadium any environmentalist could love — the country's first certified green major professional sports stadium …

Rough loss caps ‘tough week’  —  NEW YORK — Marooned in the Shea Stadium visitors' clubhouse to wait on a delayed flight Sunday, Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak ruminated on a stretch lousy with losses.  —  It was, he said, a difficult week.  —  But it was not a redefining one.

Bondy: Johan going nine, no sense  —  It was hard to figure at Shea Sunday whether the Mets won a big baseball game or surrendered unconditionally to an inane lobbying campaign.  —  The Mets beat the Cardinals, 9-1, and Johan Santana pitched nine full innings for the first time in more than a year …

AMAZIN'S SEARCHING FOR ‘RELIEF’  —  THE Yankees beat the Mets to Xavier Nady and got Damaso Marte, too, quite the coup.  —  Also, quite the reason for Omar Minaya to go sleepless until Thursday's non-waiver trading deadline if the Mets haven't won 14 of their last 18 games …

Pitchers Chacin, Billings create quite a buzz on farm  —  The Rockies' farm system keeps building pitching promise from the bottom up.  —  First, 20-year-old Venezuelan Jhoulys Chacin is attracting buzz around minor-league baseball because of his 15-1 record in a season divided between Asheville …

Ned Colletti's rope seems to be getting shorter  —  General manager's job is in jeopardy and Dodgers owner may have cut off his allowance.  —  This could be Ned Colletti's last trade as the Dodgers' general manager.  —  Frank McCourt isn't going anywhere.  Neither is Joe Torre.

Van Benschoten shelled again ... for last time?  —  Chased in second inning of Pirates' 9-6 loss to light-hitting Padres  —  If anyone in the crowd of 27,794 at PNC Park last night was muttering about the Pirates' latest players-for-prospects trade, they probably were not doing so for long.