Game 156: Red Sox at Yankees  —  YANKEES (99-56)  —  Pitching: LHP Andy Pettitte (13-7, 4.15).  —  RED SOX (91-63)  —  Ellsbury CF  —  Pedroia 2B  —  Bay LF  —  Youkilis 1B  —  Ortiz DH  —  Lowell 3B  —  Drew RF  —  Varitek C  —  Gonzalez SS  —  Pitching: RHP Paul Byrd (1-2, 6.04).

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.

Kiss'Em Goodbye: San Diego Padres by Baseball Prospectus  —  Current record: 72-84, fourth place  —  Some of the young pitching does seem promising—so, hope, anyone?  Bueller?  Bueller?  Frye?  —  Buster Olney of ESPN.com's Take  —  What went wrong: Nobody wants to get into soap opera stuff …

On the Beat  —  Weekend Update  —  When Joe Torre began his managerial career 33 years ago, he did not believe in the old baseball adages about good pitching always beating good hitting, pitching winning championships, and pitching being 80 percent of the game.  Torre believed hitting was equally as important as pitching.

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 …

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.

Josh Johnson sent home with the flu, Chris Volstad to start  —  Josh Johnson, today's scheduled pitcher, was sent home this morning because of the flu.  Chris Volstad will replace him on the mound.  —  “He didn't look very good,” manager Fredi Gonzalez said.

Royals notebook |  Royals not interested in Bradley  —  Royals officials dismiss — in strong terms — reports of possible interest in acquiring outfielder Milton Bradley from the Cubs.  “Idiots” was one of the nicer comments directed at those offering such speculation.

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 …

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.