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2:00 AM ET, May 28, 2010

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Bruce Levine / ESPN:
Major League Baseball investigating Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, Mark Buehrle and umpire Joe West incident … Major League Baseball will investigate the actions that took place Wednesday in Cleveland when Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and pitcher Mark Buehrle were ejected by umpire Joe West.
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Gordon Edes / ESPN:
Boston Red Sox critic Joe West to ump series at Fenway  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Umpire Joe West will be working the Red Sox-Royals series that begins Thursday night in Fenway Park, the first time the veteran umpire will be working a Sox game since he called out the Sox and Yankees last month …
It's About The Money:
Does Umpire Joe West Have a Conflict of Interest?
Jon Paul Morosi / Fox Sports:
Fans deserve to know umps' punishments
Discussion: Al's Ramblings
Associated Press:
One run is enough for Cubs, Lilly to beat Dodgers  —  CHICAGO (AP) — No matter how good this one looked, Ted Lilly really wasn't sure this was his best start of the season.  Either way, he'll take it.  —  Lilly pitched seven scoreless innings, Tyler Colvin drove in the lone run with a double …
Discussion: Bleed Cubbie Blue
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Tony Jackson / ESPN:
Andre Ethier of Los Angeles Dodgers ‘tentatively’ scheduled for Monday return
Discussion: MLB
Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:
Torre rethinks Ethier's rehab plan
Discussion: HardballTalk
Andrew Baggarly / Extra Baggs:
What the heck is wrong with Tim Lincecum?  —  Tim Lincecum's career high for walks in a game is five.  —  He tied it tonight.  And by itself, that isn't so alarming.  —  Except he also tied it in his previous start, at Arizona.  And in the start before that, at home vs. the Astros.
Discussion: HardballTalk
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Adam Kilgore / Washington Post:
Washington Nationals batter Tim Lincecum in 7-3 win over San Francisco Giants
Mark Zuckerman / NATS INSIDER:
Taking down the best  —  Tim Lincecum struggled all night against a patient Nats lineup.
Joe Strauss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Lohse is likely to need surgery  —  Kyle Lohse, center, struggles through the third inning in which he gave up five runs against the Angels on Saturday.  The Angels beat the Cardinals 10-7.  (David Carson/P-D)  —  SAN DIEGO — Cardinals starting pitcher Kyle Lohse is suffering …
Nick Cafardo / Boston Globe:
News and notes from Fenway: Ellsbury's ribs OK but sore  —  The MRIs and CT scan taken in Tampa Bay on Jacoby Ellsbury's ribs were reviewed by the Sox medical team and indications are that Ellsbury did not suffer a new injury or re-injury to his ribs according to a team source.
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Gordon Edes / ESPN:
Ellsbury says pain in ribs is back
Discussion: Red Sox Monster and FenwayNation
Jim Armstrong / Denver Post:
Rockies go back-to-back-to-back in rout of Arizona  —  For the first time in more than month, they had the brooms out in the Coors Field stands Thursday.  And for the first time all season, they produced the desired result.  —  The Rockies' 8-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks gave …
Discussion: AZ Snakepit
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Thomas Harding / MLB.com:
Efficient Ubaldo earns ninth victory
Jayson Stark / MLB:
Rumblings and Grumblings: Under-the-radar acquisitions that have sparked teams  —  Scott Rolen to the Reds and Colby Lewis to the Rangers among the key acquisitions  —  It's the stuff that happened this past winter while everybody else was digesting the 1,000th Roy Halladay trade rumor of the week.
David Ginsburg / Globe and Mail:
A's rally past Orioles  —  Kouzmanoff doubles in 3 runs in 5-run 8th inning, leading Oakland past Baltimore 7-5  —  The Oakland Athletics needed a bit of luck to put Kevin Kouzmanoff in position to finish off an eighth-inning uprising.  —  Kouzmanoff made sure all that good fortune didn't go to waste.
Associated Press:
Mets zero in, shut out Phillies for third straight day  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Pelfrey (FSY) and the New York Mets pulled off a most extraordinary pitching feat, shutting out hard-hitting Philadelphia for the third straight game and handing the flailing Phillies a 3-0 loss Thursday night.
Discussion: Yahoo! Sports
Paul Bessire / Sports Radio Interviews:
Chipper Jones May Walk Away from $20 Million  —  It's not quite embarrassing for Larry Wayne Jones - yet.  Chipper is hitting just .226 with a .729 OPS, but he is just two years removed from the best offensive season of his career (2008 when he hit .364 with a 1.044 OPS) …
Matt Eddy / Baseball America:
Minor League Transactions  —  Check out the Transactions Glossary for the key to deciphering the various inactive lists presented here.  —  An asterisk (*) denotes an instance of a player agreeing to terms on a minor league contract with an organization with which he already had a major league agreement.
Discussion: River Avenue Blues
Associated Press:
Kubel belts two homers, powers Twins over Yankees  —  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jason Kubel (FSY) ended Minnesota's long power drought in a big way, belting two home runs and driving in five runs in the Twins' 8-2 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday night.
Discussion: Pinstripe Alley
TSN.ca:
RYAN HELPS CARDINALS AVOID SWEEP BY PADRES  —  The Sports Network  —  San Diego, CA (Sports Network) - Brendan Ryan finished with a season-high four hits, including a home run, as the St. Louis Cardinals avoided getting swept by the San Diego Padres with an 8-3 win.
Discussion: Gaslamp Ball and Associated Press
Anthony McCarron / NY Daily News:
New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes finds his confidence, and at the same time, his legs  —  There was no physical problem with his legs as he struggled through the opening months of the season, Jose Reyes said.  But the confidence he has always felt while running was slow to return, hampering his game.
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Anthony DiComo / MLB.com:
Mets thump Phillies behind Takahashi
Michael Baron / MetsBlog.com:
Post Game: Mets 5, Phillies 0
 
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