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The Dodgers, already missing Milton Bradley and Rickey Ledee, have now lost J.D. Drew for the next two months with a broken wrist. Drew injured? Who saw that one coming?

Meanwhile, the Orioles put C Geronimo Gil on the DL - with Javy Lopez already out, it means that they'll be starting the third guy on their depth chart, Sal Fasano.

B.J. Ryan of the Orioles came into yesterday's game in the 8th inning, with no one out and a runner on first. The Orioles were ahead by a run. The Yankees gave up one out on a sacrifice and another on the basepaths and still scored another six runs.

Keith Foulke came on to nail down a Boston victory in the 9th. Except after getting the first out, he allowed a triple, an RBI double to tie the game, a walk, a hit batter, and a game winning single. Foulke, who has had six straight brilliant seasons, is now 5-5, 6.23 with 15 saves in 19 opportunities. The AL is batting .299 and slugging .526 against him; his career numbers are .219 and .358.

It wasn't all bad news for AL East closers. The Jays had the day off, the Devil Rays never once had a lead, and Mariano Rivera dismissed the Orioles in order in the ninth, fanning two, to get the save.

In ex-Blue Jay news, Paul Quantrill worked a scoreless inning in his Padres debut, Giovanni Carrara picked up his 6th win, Carlos Delgado hit his 16th homer.

AL
Baltimore (Lopez 7-4, 4.43) at New York (Johnson 7-6, 4.24) 1:05
Detroit (Maroth 5-9, 4.25) at Cleveland (Westbrook 6-9, 4.47) 7:05
Oakland (Haren 7-7, 3.85) at Toronto (Towers 6-7, 4.23) 7:07
Tampa Bay (Hendrickson 3-5, 6.06) at Chicago (Garcia 8-3, 3.29) 8:05
Boston (Wakefield 7-6, 3.94) at Texas (Young 8-4, 3.33) 8:05
Seattle (Meche 8-5, 4.65) at Kansas City (Carrasco 3-3, 3.23) 8:10
Minnesota (Baker 0-0, 0.00) at Los Angeles (Santana 2-3, 6.06) 10:05

NL
New York (Martinez 9-2, 2.74) at Washington (Loaiza 4-5, 3.81) 7:05
Philadelphia (Lieber 8-8, 5.18) at Pittsburgh (Wells 5-8, 4.64) 7:05
Milwaukee (Capuano 8-6, 3.38) at Florida (Beckett 8-5, 3.14) 7:05
Chicago (Maddux 7-5, 4.87) at Atlanta (Colon 0-4, 6.30) 7:35
San Diego (Reyes 3-1, 3.93) at Houston (Backe 6-6, 5.29) 8:05
Los Angeles (Perez 4-4, 4.50) at Colorado (Francis 7-5, 5.01) 9:05
St.Louis (Suppan 7-7, 4.34) at Arizona (Estes 6-6, 4.30) 9:40
Cincinnati (Milton 3-9, 7.40) at San Francisco (Lowry 5-7, 5.01) 10:15

Posted by Magpie on Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 12:01 PM EDT.
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Mike Green - Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 12:27 PM EDT (#121575) #
Drew injured? Who saw that one coming?

John Schuerholz. Unlike Kenny Rogers, he knew when to fold 'em.
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Mick Doherty - Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 01:21 PM EDT (#121586) #
If the All-Star music guy in Detroit or any road PA guy has any cajones, whenever Rogers comes to bat or trots in from the bullpen, they'll queue up "Lady."

"You have gone ...
and made me such a fool ..."
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Fawaz - Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 02:23 PM EDT (#121593) #
The Big Unit is perfect through four, and his team (aided by some poor fielding) has given him 10 runs to work with.
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Gitz - Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 02:27 PM EDT (#121595) #
About the only surprising thing about Drew getting hurt was that it took this long. I wonder how many days Nick Johnson and J.D. Drew have spent on the DL simultaneously. Naturally, one has to wonder what kind of careers these two could have if they can only stay healthy. Such a small word, that "if," but it carries a wallop.
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Lefty - Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 07:01 PM EDT (#121612) #
The Houston Chronicle is reporting that the Astro's are denying that they are working on a deal to secure the services of one Adam Dunn. Apparently they are not offering three of their top four pitching prospects.
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Jim - Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 11:23 PM EDT (#121627) #
The White Sox recalled Bobby Jenks. I've been looking forward to this.
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