Top News:
Peter Abraham / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
Game 136: Yankees at Blue Jays — YANKEES (86-49) — Pitching: LHP Andy Pettitte (12-6, 4.03). — BLUE JAYS (60-74) — Scutaro SS — Hill 2B — Wells CF — Millar 1B — Ruiz DH — Encarnacion 3B — Bautista RF — McDonald LF — Chavez C — Pitching: LHP Brett Cecil (6-3, 5.42).
RELATED:
Jonathan Abrams / New York Times:
Pettitte Is Only as Good as Yankees Need Him to Be — TORONTO — Robinson Cano and Mark Teixeira hit solo home runs, and the Yankees held on for a 6-4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday at Rogers Centre. — The Yankees improved to 87-49 this season and 59-1 when leading after six innings.
Discussion:
Yahoo! Sports
Joe Capozzi / Palm Beach Post:
Florida Marlins perfect since clubhouse spat, beat Washington Nationals 9-6 — WASHINGTON — Maybe a little clubhouse friction was just what the Marlins needed to spark a final push for the playoffs. — Hanley Ramirez returned to the starting lineup Friday night and drove in two runs …
RELATED:
Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
Red Sox-White Sox: Updates — Paul Konerko clanged a home run off the left field foul pole off Hideki Okajima to spread the margin to four runs again. — (5:57, top 8th, Chicago 4, Boston 1) — Jason Bay caught Floyd's fastball moving over the center part of the plate on the first pitch to open the 8th inning for his 31st homer.
RELATED:
MLB:
Kansas City Royals' Jose Guillen shutting it down for the season — Kansas City Royals outfielder Jose Guillen is out for the season, according to ESPNdeportes.com's Enrique Rojas. — Guillen — “I won't play anymore for the rest of the season to recover well from the injury,” …
Geoff Morrow / The Sports Blog with The Patriot-News:
Marrero belts first Class AA homer as Senators return to .500 — Chris Marrero blasted his first career Class AA home run, and the Harrisburg Senators opened their final series of the 2009 series with a 7-3 victory over Bowie in front of 2,953 at Prince George's Stadium.
NY Daily News:
Clemens strikes out with defamation suit — More than A year and a half after starting with a bang, the defamation suit Roger Clemens brought against his former trainer Brian McNamee ended with a whimper last week in Houston, where federal judge Keith Ellison of the U.S. District Court dismissed the case with prejudice.
Projo Sox Blog:
Red Sox complete Wagner trade — CHICAGO _ The Red Sox sent minor-league first baseman Eddie Lora to the New York Mets as part of the trade that brought left-handed pitcher Billy Wagner to Boston on Aug. 25. —JOE McDONALD
Bart Hubbuch / Mets Blog:
Game 136: Cubs at Mets — The Mets will be trying to extend their winning streak to three this afternoon when journeyman Nelson Figueroa takes on the Cubs at Citi Field in the second game of a three-game series. — Figueroa is making his fifth start of the season and is coming off …
Patrick / NPB Tracker:
Mets to Sign Teenager — This one is about is about as under-the-radar as it gets — according to ChuSpo, the Mets have agreed to sign Japanese teenager Taiki Kawasaki to a minor league contract. Kawasaki is a 17 year-old left handed pitcher who had been training at Julio Franco's baseball academy in Florida.
Brian McTaggart / MLB.com:
Berkman unsure of baseball future — Houston (64-70) vs. Philadelphia (77-55), 6:05 p.m. CT — HOUSTON — When he signed a six-year, $85 million contract during Spring Training in 2005, first baseman Lance Berkman said he wanted to remain with the Astros for the rest of his career.
Discussion:
MLB Rumors
New York Post:
EX-YANK FRITZ RECALLED FOR FAMILY SWITCH — IN THE end, Fritz Peterson has tried to do the best he could in every situation. — When he swapped families with fellow Yankees pitcher Mike Kekich in the early '70s, he thought it was for the best. Marilyn Peterson moved in with Kekich.
Mark Feinsand / NY Daily News:
Halladay's one-hitter snaps Yanks' streak — TORONTO - Apparently, there's nothing in the Joba Rules about pitching well. — Joba Chamberlain posted another abbreviated stinker Friday night, getting hit around for three innings in a 6-0 Blue Jays win at the Rogers Centre that snapped the Yankees' seven-game winning streak.
Discussion:
A Red Sox Fan …
RELATED: