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When the billionaire Ricketts family gets the “play ball” sign from the closed fraternity of baseball owners, one of the first hurdles will be what to do about 95-year-old Wrigley Field. On the table is a $250 million makeover timed to celebrate the ballpark’s 100th anniversary and update the shrine of Major League Baseball to [...]
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An extra day is apparently all Vicente Padilla needed for his sore right shoulder to feel well enough to pitch this week against the Los Angeles Angels. The Texas Rangers right-hander told manager Ron Washington and pitching coach Mike Maddux that he is available to start Wednesday. He was originally scheduled to start Saturday, but [...]
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RALPH TROUT The Phils’ Raul Ibanez struck out, walked, and flied out to right in three plate appearances. Raul Ibanez went hitless in his first minor-league rehabilitation game yesterday, but that didn’t bother the Phillies’ all-star leftfielder.Ibanez was thrilled that for the first time in weeks, he didn’t feel even a twinge of pain in [...]
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Carlos Guillen is so encouraged about the way his right shoulder feels that he said on Monday he expects to be back in the Tigers’ lineup at some point in July. It won’t take another month for him to get ready, in other words. “It’ll be a while,” manager Jim Leyland said about Guillen, who’s [...]
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RON CORTES / Staff photographer Shane Victorino scores on sacrifice fly by Jason Werth. Reds catcher is Ramon Hernandez. When asked yesterday what he thinks when he hears the name Pedro Martinez, Phillies manager Charlie Manuel mentioned that he thinks about Martinez “when he was about 18 to 25 years old.” It isn’t clear whether [...]
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Jasienski/Getty Quarterback Steve McNair #9 of the Baltimore Ravens has reportedly been found shot dead in his Nashville home. The Tennessean/AP Sahel Kazemi was also found at the scene of McNair’s death. Former NFL star quarterback Steve McNair was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in a Nashville condominium Saturday – and authorities hinted he [...]
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ST. PETERSBURG — Neither the Rays nor 3B Evan Longoria feel that the “twinge” in his previously injured left hamstring that forced him to leave Wednesday’s game is anything serious, with Longoria saying he hopes to be back in the lineup today. Longoria said he came out after the seventh inning as a precaution. Manager [...]
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TAMPA – Will the Tampa Bay Rays be coming to downtown Tampa? Not if St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker has anything to say about it. A group studying whether the baseball team should leave Tropicana Field has included three sites in Hillsborough County – downtown Tampa, the West Shore district and the state fairgrounds east [...]
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SEATTLE — Chris Young is unlikely to return to the Padres rotation until after the All-Star break because of the inflammation in his right shoulder. Padres manager Bud Black Thursday said the Padres are going to follow a cautious timetable with Young. “I came back too soon a couple of times,” Black said. “In the [...]
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rade Washburn? Not if he keeps pitching like this Jarrod Washburn might not be the most popular of Mariners players with his current 4-5 record and a four-year mark of 27-48 in Seattle, but he’s easily been the biggest surprise of a patchwork starting rotation that keeps getting the job done for the new regime. [...]
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