Prince Fielder of Milwaukee Brewers tries to charge Los Angeles Dodgers clubhouse after beaning … LOS ANGELES — Not even Prince Fielder really knows what he might have done if a phalanx of security guards and teammates hadn't prevented the furious Milwaukee Brewers slugger from entering …

Sting Rays  —  Longoria makes it hurt as Tampa outlasts Sox  —  Takashi Saito felt the heat after walking Michel Hernandez to open the 13th.  (Scott Audette/ Reuters)  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Earning a playoff spot in the American League East may be baseball's most arduous challenge this year.

Tigers promote Lambert, Avila to Majors  —  Ramirez, Ryan sent back to Triple-A Toldeo  —  DETROIT — Detroit general manager Dave Dombrowski announced after Tuesday's 8-2 loss to the Orioles that the Tigers have recalled 26-year-old pitcher Chris Lambert from Triple-A Toledo and purchased …

Clock ticking for teams to sign top picks  —  Twenty yet to come to terms as Aug. 17 deadline approaches  —  With fewer than two weeks to go before the First-Year Player Draft signing deadline, there are only 12 first-round picks who have signed with their respective teams.

Jays GM Ricciardi looks like a lame duck after botching Halladay talks … Call them the Blew Jays.  Because they blew the Roy Halladay trade talks big time.  —  Sure, the Jays still have Halladay, the best pitcher in baseball.  But by all appearances it's a disappointed Halladay, who expected to be gone from Toronto by now.

Posnanski to Sports Illustrated: Going ... but not really leaving  —  This is a strange column to write.  It's a goodbye but not a goodbye.  It's a thank you but not a thank you waved through the window of a departing plane.  It's a farewell, only I'll probably be around more than you want.

Abreu named AL Player of Month for July  —  Outfielder bats .380, compensate for loss of Vlad, Hunter  —  Bobby Abreu, whose recent performance helped compensate for the injury absences of Torii Hunter and Vladimir Guerrero and kept the Angels flying high in the West, has been named …

Aaron: Release 2003 list of positive tests  —  Former home run king wants all 104 names made public  —  JUPITER, Fla. — Hank Aaron said Tuesday that he wants the list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing substances in 2003 to be released.

25 things you didn't know about baseball  —  Buzz up!  —  I have found baseball nerd heaven, and it is a place called FanGraphs.  —  Earlier this year, the invaluable repository for statistics unveiled its pitch-type linear weights.  Do not be scared by the math jargon.

St. Louis Cardinals' Pujols slams his way out of slump  —  St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols (5) celebrates with teammates Colby Rasmus, second from left, and Julio Lugo (12) after Pujol's grand slam, as New York Mets catcher Omir Santos, left, looks on during the 10th inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, in New York.

Steps for attaining baseball happiness  —  1. Buy a pack of baseball cards.  For best results, pay no more than a quarter and make sure the pack has a hard stick of gum sliding around loose inside.  If packs long ago stopped costing a quarter or less and no longer include flour-flecked sticks …

Reyes may be done for the rest of 2009  —  Don't count on Jose Reyes returning this season.  The shortstop flew from Port St. Lucie to New York to be examined Tuesday by team doctors at the Hospital for Special Surgery.  Reyes is experiencing continued discomfort with his troublesome right hamstring tendon.