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George A. King III / New York Post:
Struggles vs. Red Sox continue; Ortiz shows up Yankees — The second part of Smoke & Mirrors shattered last night at Yankee Stadium and then David Ortiz dragged a shard of glass across the Yankees' throats. — During the first two months of the season, the Yankees hit the jackpot with Bartolo …
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Girardi takes issue with Big Papi's bat flip — William Perlman/THE STAR-LEDGER/US PresswireDavid Ortiz's exaggerated follow-through on a fifth-inning homer drew criticism from Yankees manager Joe Girardi. — The Yankee Stadium crowd wasn't happy with David Ortiz's home-run celebrating bat flip in the fifth inning Tuesday.
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Sliding Into Home
Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
Papelbon has one to savor — NEW YORK — Major League Baseball suspended Jonathan Papelbon for three games yesterday, punishment for bumping umpire Tony Randazzo after being ejected Saturday. — Papelbon immediately appealed, which allowed him to come out of the bullpen in left field several hours later …
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The Soxaholix
Andrew Marchand / ESPN:
Jeter would ‘love’ to reach 3K hits while at home — NEW YORK — Derek Jeter said he would “love” to reach 3,000 hits on the New York Yankees current 10-game homestand. Jeter is 14 hits shy of becoming the first Yankee to reach the mark. — “I would love to do it here,” …
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Thomas Boorstein / MLB.com:
Teixeira day to day with bruise on knee
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Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
Game 60: Red Sox at Yankees
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Rick Telander / Chicago Sun Times:
Oney Guillen's raceball game vs. White Sox is just stupid — White Sox general manager Ken Williams (right) and manager Ozzie Guillen (middle) have another unnecessary controversy on their hands thanks to Oney Guillen's (left) Twitter account. — If there's a Chicago baseball radar …
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Associated Press:
Hanson pitches well to help Braves beat slumping Marlins — MIAMI — Tommy Hanson pitched six innings and the Atlanta Braves won with only two hits Tuesday night when they sent the Florida Marlins to their sixth consecutive loss, 1-0. — Florida's Brad Hand (-1) went six innings …
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Associated Press:
Former Pirates star Jose Pagan dies at 76 — PITTSBURGH — Former big leaguer Jose Pagan, who drove in the eventual winning run for Pittsburgh in Game 7 of the 1971 World Series, has died. He was 76. — The Pirates announced his death after learning of it from Pagan's family.
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Associated Press:
Cairo has grand slam in Reds win over Cubs — CINCINNATI, Ohio — Miguel Cairo hit a grand slam to help make Edinson Volquez's return to the majors a success and the Cincinnati Reds continued their dominance of the Chicago Cubs with an 8-2 win Tuesday night.
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Fred Mitchell / Chicago Tribune:
Agent: Ramirez won't give up no-trade clause
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Craig Calcaterra / HardballTalk:
Bryce Harper is going to get himself hurt — Check out the home run that Nats' prospect Bryce Harper hit last night. Specifically, check out the way he stopped to admire it and the kiss he blew to the pitcher when he crossed home plate: — Yes, he's young. But there's no excuse for that kind of thing.
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Roy Oswalt / Yahoo! Sports:
Harper's arrogance is just what baseball needs
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Washington Post, ESPN, LA Times Sports Blog and Nats Enquirer
Gordon Edes / ESPN:
Red Sox closer Papelbon banned for 3 games — NEW YORK — Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon has been suspended for three games and fined an undisclosed amount in the aftermath of Saturday's ejection by plate umpire Tony Randazzo. — MLB announced it was banning Papelbon on Tuesday because of …
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Westbrook Leads Cards to 7-4 Win Over Astros — HOUSTON (AP) — Jake Westbrook shook off early trouble on the mound and helped his cause with a three-run, tie-breaking double to help the St. Louis Cardinals to a 7-4 win over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night. — It was the NL-Central leading Cardinals' fourth straight win.
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Andrew Baggarly / Extra Baggs:
POSTGAME NOTES: Sanchez goes five-and-dive, Giants looking harder for catching help, etc. (12) — Day game tomorrow, which means a very brief postgame file tonight. — The game story has much to do with Jonathan Sanchez, who somehow managed to hold the Nationals to two runs …
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Associated Press:
Indians' right-hander Carrasco dominant in win over Twins — CLEVELAND — Carlos Carrasco took a shutout into the ninth inning and the Cleveland Indians pushed across an unearned run to defeat the Minnesota Twins 1-0 Tuesday night. — Carrasco (5-3) gave up three hits …
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Associated Press:
Orioles use homers, pitching to beat skidding Athletics — BALTIMORE — J.J. Hardy, Luke Scott and Adam Jones hit solo homers, Chris Jakubauskas pitched five shutout innings and the Baltimore Orioles beat Oakland 4-0 Tuesday night to stretch the Athletics' losing streak to a season-high eight games.
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Rob Maaddi / Associated Press:
A pair of rookies help Dodgers beat Phillies — PHILADELPHIA—Rubby De La Rosa pitched five effective innings in his first career start and Dee Gordon had three hits in his first start, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-2 Tuesday night.
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Dave Cameron / FanGraphs Baseball:
It's Warmer; Now Where's The Offense? — Last year, offense declined so precipitously that we had to put up with a few million Year Of The Pitcher references. While run scoring had been trending down, the drop off was so significant - a .329 league wOBA in 2009 became a .321 league wOBA in 2010 …
