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Jay Cohen / Associated Press:
Cano benched for lack of hustle on fielding play — NEW YORK — Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano was benched Sunday after manager Joe Girardi became upset with his lack of hustle on a fielding play against the Tampa Bay Rays. — Cliff Floyd led off the fourth inning with a hard grounder between …
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Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Pavano expects to make next start — Righty left Sunday's game against Rays with left hip injury — NEW YORK — Carl Pavano landed awkwardly after throwing a pitch in the sixth inning of Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Rays and departed with what was diagnosed to be a stiff left hip.
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Associated Press:
Derek Jeter gets 3 hits again in Yankees' win, ties Lou Gehrig on hit list — Derek Jeter collected three hits for the third straight game, Alex Rodriguez belted a grand slam and the Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays 8-4 Sunday to win the weekend series against the AL East leaders.
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Lynn Zinser / New York Times:
Yankees Offense Leads Team to Victory — For a day, the Yankees enjoyed the kind of offense they thought their $200 million-plus lineup would produce all season, with Alex Rodriguez hitting a first-inning grand slam and Derek Jeter's fifth-inning homer tying the Yankees legend Lou Gehrig …
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Gameday Live 149: Rays at Yankees — Stephen Haynes here to provide updates and shoot the breeze with ya. — You know when a group can extract something more in the way of moral than anything tangible from an actual victory? When it's a fourth-place team that has a comeback win …
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Associated Press:
Vasquez leads White Sox over Tigers — CHICAGO — Javier Vazquez took a shutout into the eighth, Alexei Ramirez homered and the Chicago White Sox hung on to beat the Detroit Tigers 4-2 in the first game of a doubleheader on a soggy Sunday after two days of rainouts.
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Steve Tucker / Chicago Sun Times:
Sox game delayed due to rain — The start of today's game between the White Sox and Detroit Tigers is being delayed by rain. The teams plan to play a straight doubleheader when the rain subsides, rather than the split doubleheader that was originally planned.
John Perrotto / Baseball Prospectus:
Don't Look at Us Now — About the best thing that the Royals have to say about themselves is that they aren't the Pirates. The Pirates matched one of the most inglorious records in baseball history a week ago today when they clinched their 16th consecutive losing season, matching the 1933-48 Phillies streak of futility.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Ed Bouchette on the Steelers: Tom Brady is out. Matt Cassel is in — A weekly look inside the team, the issues & the questions — Bill Belichick, this is your time to shine. — Or not. — An interesting scenario will play out in New England over the course of the next 15 games …
Bob Klapisch / NorthJersey.com:
Girardi is as delusional as ever — Another day, another couple of games mercifully knocked off the schedule for the Yankees, who'd like nothing more than a fast, under-the-radar exit to 2009. But it won't be that easy for the $200 million Bombers, who are doing the equivalent of a September perp walk.
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Jim Baumbach / Newsday:
Niese cruises, Mets shut out Braves to earn split — Rookie Jonathon Niese threw eight scoreless innings as the Mets beat the Braves, 5-0, to earn a doubleheader split. (Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr. / September 13, 2008) — When you combine what happened to the Mets last September …
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Gary Huckabay / Unfiltered:
Fire Away — Tim Lincecum threw 138 pitches against San Diego last night. — Let me make this as clear as I possibly can. — That is utterly, completely, and colossally reckless, stupid, arrogant, and just plain lazy. Send in all the nasty emails calling me a geek who's never played you like.
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Associated Press:
Figgins' hit in 9th gives Angels sweep — ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)—Chone Figgins singled home the winning run in the ninth inning and Mark Teixeira hit his 200th career homer as the AL West champion Los Angeles Angels beat Seattle 4-3 Sunday for a four-game sweep.
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