They're not showing all their cards  —  NEW YORK - One team is going all out to win every day.  —  The other team is the Red Sox - asking you to stand back and look at the big picture.  —  The Sox got another encouraging performance from Daisuke Matsuzaka yesterday, but again were beaten by the Yankees, 3-0.

Guillen slams White Sox  —  Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen called out his team in an expletive-laden postgame press conference after watching the Sox blow a five-run lead as the Detroit Tigers scored 12 unanswered runs to win 12-5 on Saturday night.

Sunday reading: CC Sabathia, Derek Lowe and (blog) viewer mail  —  Off yesterday's Yankees game, I wrote about CC Sabathia, who has been pretty much perfect so far for the Yankees.  —  Remember that we spent much of last year discussing Sabathia's reluctance to come to New York.

BRAUN'S WALK-OFF SHOT POWERS BREWERS PAST PHILLIES  —  The Sports Network  —  Milwaukee, WI (Sports Network) - Ryan Braun hit a two-run homer off Tyler Walker in the bottom of the ninth to lift the Milwaukee Brewers to a 7-5 win over the Phillies in the third installment of a four-game series.

Cards get umps to check mounds  —  DENVER — Dissatisfaction over a seeming discrepancy between the visitors bullpen mound and the Coors Field main mound caused Cardinals manager Tony La Russa to seek an umpires' review of the two following Friday night's loss and led to an animated exchange with the Rockies grounds crew Saturday.

Macha comfortable he'll return in 2010  —  Skipper says he and GM Melvin discussed improvements  —  MILWAUKEE — Manager Ken Macha's contractual status never came up during his two-hour meeting with general manager Doug Melvin earlier this week, but Macha said Saturday that he expects …

The Myth of Power  —  The experts on talk radio and in the blogosphere have propagated the idea that a first baseman must be a power hitter and therefore that Daniel Murphy will not have a place with the Mets in 2010.  —  Now, it is possible that the Mets, whose financial situation …

A's rally vs. Halos, keep Rangers in playoff hunt  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jack Cust (FSY) homered and doubled in the go-ahead run during a six-run eighth inning, Kurt Suzuki (FSY) and Mark Ellis (FSY) also went deep, and the Oakland Athletics rallied from a seven-run deficit to beat the Los Angeles Angels 15-10 on Saturday night.

SPAN, TWINS STOP ROYALS TO KEEP PACE WITH TIGERS  —  The Sports Network  —  Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) - Denard Span had four hits and set a career- high with six RBI as the surging Minnesota Twins kept pace in the AL Central race with an 11-6 win over the Kansas City Royals.

Jack Egbert begins offseason makeover for Mets  —  Here's the official word from the Mets:  —  The New York Mets today announced that they claimed righthanded pitcher Jack Egbert off waivers from Chicago-AL.  The White Sox placed the righthander on waivers on September 23rd.