Sosa Is Said to Test Positive in 2003  —  Sammy Sosa, who joined with Mark McGwire in 1998 in a celebrated pursuit of baseball's single-season home run record, is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year.

Wakefield's arm, Ortiz's bat propel Red Sox past Marlins  —  BOSTON (AP) — Tim Wakefield's ninth win moved him another spot closer to the AL lead, and the Boston Red Sox think it might finally be the 42-year-old knuckleballer's chance to make his first career All-Star team.

Mets See What It's Like to Benefit From Errors  —  BALTIMORE — Karma works in mysterious ways, as demonstrated by two pivotal moments in the Mets' game Tuesday night.  An error by the Orioles' second baseman on a seemingly routine play paved the way for the Mets' first four runs …

Posada, Yankees Pitchers On Same Page?  —  NEW YORK — Again and again, Joba Chamberlain shook his head.  Jorge Posada wanted fastball, Chamberlain had fallen in love with his slider, especially on a full count.  —  Chamberlain threw his pitch and walked home a run.

Youkilis moves up in All-Star balloting  —  First baseman slides ahead of Teixeira in tight race  —  While the Red Sox currently have the lead in the AL East over their rival Yankees, they also have the lead in projected American League All-Star starters, along with the upstart Texas Rangers.

Congrats to Chien-Ming Wang  —  Chien-Ming Wang and his wife Chia-Ling are proud parents.  Justin Jesse Wang arrived this morning in NYC.  He checked it at 7 pounds, 12 ounces.  —  J.J. Wang is a good name.  Sounds like a shortstop maybe.  —  My Taiwanese friends say that in their culture …

Morning links: Dude singing on that video  —  I put out the word last week, seeking the identity of the young man who produced this song about the Nate McLouth trade ...  (Please visit the site to view this media)  —  ... and I ended up hearing from Jesse Andrews himself:

Pujols goes deep again as Cardinals crush Verlander, Tigers  —  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Albert Pujols hit his fifth home run in five games — and the longest homer at Busch Stadium this season — and Adam Wainwright worked seven strong innings to help the St. Louis Cardinals rout the Detroit Tigers …

Surgery still a possibility for Peavy … While the hope and likelihood remains that Padres ace Jake Peavy can return in a month or two, surgery on his badly injured right ankle hasn't entirely been ruled out.  —  If he does need surgery to repair the torn tendon injury, Peavy's season would be over.

Ervin Santana to the DL?  —  As if the Angels hadn't been through enough already, Ervin Santana will miss tonight's scheduled start with right forearm tightness.  Santana has already missed time this season with an elbow injury that left him out until mid-May.

Artie Lange Goes Wild … NEW YORK — Artie Lange began his assault in the green room.  It was 30 minutes before his segment on Joe Buck Live at the Equitable Center Theater in midtown Manhattan and Lange was searching for victims.  First up was Brett Favre.

Houston Astros' Ivan Rodriguez ties MLB record for games caught  —  ARLINGTON, Texas — Ivan Rodriguez tied the major league record for games played as a catcher Tuesday night, when he caught against his original team.  —  Rodriguez, now with the Houston Astros, caught his 2,226th career game against Texas …

Ackley, UNC pile on hits in 11-4 victory, oust Southern Miss  —  OMAHA (AP) — Dustin Ackley went 5 for 6 and became the College World Series' career hits leader, and North Carolina tied a CWS record with 23 hits in an 11-4 victory over Southern Mississippi on Tuesday.

What lies ahead for 'Baseball's LeBron' … In his first playing day after being celebrated on the cover of Sports Illustrated as The Next Big Thing in baseball, Bryce Harper, all of 16 years old and a high school sophomore at Las Vegas High School, drew a standing-room only crowd of 800 people …