A-Rod may skip All-Star game
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Alex Rodriguez hasn't decided whether he will play in Tuesday's All-Star game or use the three-day break to rest his strained hamstring.
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Alex Rodriguezâs decision to wait until the end of the season to negotiate a contract leaves him with the option of becoming a free agent and leaving for another team.
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The New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were to play only one game of their scheduled doubleheader Monday. The first game was postponed because Tampa Bay was delayed leaving Florida because of Hurricane Frances.
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Alex Rodriguez was back in the Yankeesâ lineup Tuesday night â playing third base and batting cleanup â despite an injury to his upper left hamstring that caused him to leave Monday nightâs game.
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The Sporting News - DENVER -- The delicious thing about the World Series is that anybody who's a baseball busybody is here. You think Alex Rodriguez's agent, Scott Boras, the most powerful agent in the game, didn't know that when he announced A-Rod's opt-out Sunday night?
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DETROIT -- Manny Ram&#xED;rez was not in the starting lineup yesterday, which immediately led to speculation that the left fielder was once again preparing to pull a ripcord on a scheduled All-Star appearance. It didn't help that manager Terry Francona , because of an organizational sensitivity to medical privacy issues, was vague before the game about what ailed the 35-year-old, ...
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Josh Beckett didn't make a very good case to be the AL starter in the All-Star game.
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Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn think it's a no-brainer: Barry Bonds deserves to be on the NL All-Star team. "Yes, there's a shadow that's hanging over top of him. The commissioner and Hank Aaron are torn whether they should celebrate the breaking of the all-time home run record," Ripken said Tuesday. "But when I think of Barry, I think of him as an All-Star player."
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Injured starter Curt Schilling will not pitch again until after the July 10 All-Star Game, the Boston Red Sox said on Wednesday.
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HUDSON -- Being selected to play in an all-star game signifies a player's stellar performance over a season, but the games are often sloppy because of the lack of familiarity among teammates. The pitchers don't know the catchers well and occasionally cross them up, making for some long innings and crooked numbers on the scoreboard.
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The New York Yankees will do just about anything to hold off the surging Boston Red Sox. They even tried asking the commissioner's office to award them a forfeit victory. When that didn't work, they moved Alex Rodriguez to the No. 2 spot in the batting order.
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At some point Thursday morning, after Curt Schilling and a herd of medical people determined Schilling&#39;s troublesome right ankle will prevent him from pitching in Game 5 of the ALCS
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The New York Mets will be missing ace Pedro Martinez for more than just the postseason. The Mets right-hander will have rotator cuff surgery next week and be out eight months. The injury is expected to sideline him until at least June.
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The numbers are so one-sided, it&#039;s startling. The American League is 8-0-1 in the last nine All-Star games. AL teams also swept the past two World Series and won an overwhelming 61 percent of interleague games against the NL this season.
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Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has the privilege of filling out the roster for the National League All-Stars. Yet that means he may have to decide whether or not to include Barry Bonds on the team.
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A little rest did a lot of good for Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod rejoined the Yankees' lineup and showed off All-Star form last night, hitting a home run that tied him with Lou Gehrig on the career list and leading host New York to a wild 14-9 win over the Los Angeles Angels.
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Allen Iverson joins Steve Nash, Yao Ming and Carlos Boozer on the growing list of Western Conference players who will not play in the All-Star Game due to injury. The Nuggets guard will sit out with a sprained ankle.