Giants end 4-game skid, top Bucs in 10 (AP)

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Darren Ford scored on a fielder’s choice in the 10th inning and came home with the tying run as a pinch runner in the eighth, helping the San Francisco Giants snap a season-high four-game losing streak with a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night. The Giants scored all their runs on plays [...]

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Marlins stay hot, beat Dodgers 4-2 (AP)

post from MLB News Blog on 26 April 2011 11:18:25 PM. © MLB News Blog

Hanley Ramirez thinks his swing is still a work in progress. Ramirez had a pair of hits and scored two runs for the Florida Marlins in a 4-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers Tuesday night. Ramirez, a three-time All-Star, came into the game in a 3 for 28 slump, but recently made an adjustment [...]

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Orioles snap Red Soxs 5-game win streak (AP)

post from MLB News Blog on 26 April 2011 11:06:23 PM. © MLB News Blog

Zach Britton doesn’t feel like a rookie when he’s on the mound, and he certainly doesn’t pitch like one. Even though he’s only five starts into his big league career, the left-hander is already looking like an ace. Britton allowed one run in six innings to earn his fourth win, Derrek Lee had two hits [...]

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McCourt's Proposed TV Deal Less Than The Rangers'
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post from 6-4-2 ? an Angels/Dodgers double play blog on 26 April 2011 11:04:16 PM. © 6-4-2 ? an Angels/Dodgers double play blog

McCourt was desperate when he went hat-in-hand to ask Fox for a personal loan, but Steve Dilbeck provides some additional insight into just how little leverage Frank had (all emphasis mine):

Major League Baseball, whose national broadcasting contract is with Fox, was nonetheless seriously irate. We should all thank Fox for its stupidity, since it essentially gave Commissioner Bud Selig his excuse to take over the Dodgers. Fox gave McCourt the loan because Time Warner had batted its eyelashes at McCourt and Fox feared losing the Dodgers to the cable giant. This despite Fox?s current contract giving it the right to match any competing offer.
MLB took over the Texas Rangers last year, and shortly after the club was sold to Nolan Ryan and his group, the Rangers signed a 20-year, $1.6-billion deal with Fox. Which would be barely more than half of the deal McCourt supposedly had lined up.

Joe Flint in the Times' Company Town blog writes that "there was no reason other than paranoia to lend McCourt money, especially since Fox had already advanced McCourt money on the current TV deal, much to the chagrin of Major League Baseball." Loans on top of loans.

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How About Another Fastball

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Royals Keep Game Close Until Choo Blast, Lose 9-4

post from Royals Review on 26 April 2011 11:01:55 PM. © Royals Review

Kansas City Royals second baseman Mike Aviles pulls his gloves off at the plate after being struck out by Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Justin Masterson to end the Royals at bat in the fifth inning of a baseball game in Cleveland on Tuesday, April 26, 2011. At right is Indians catcher Carlos Santana. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

The Royals were able to keep it a one run game until the 7th inning when Shin Soo Choo hit Coleman's first pitch for a 3 run home run effectively ending the game

The pitching totals for the Royals in the game:

3 Ks
3 BBs
5 HRs

A team is not going to win many games giving up those kind of numbers.

Also, the bottom of the lineup is a black hole of production. 1 for 13 tonight with 3 walks.

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Lind homers twice as Jays rip Rangers (AP)

post from MLB News Blog on 26 April 2011 10:56:25 PM. © MLB News Blog

Adam Lind homered twice and drove in five runs for the Toronto Blue Jays, who got off to a fast start on the way to a 10-3 victory over the AL West-leading Texas Rangers on Tuesday night. Lind had an RBI single in Toronto’s five-run outburst in the first off Matt Harrison (3-2). Lind then [...]

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3 HRs help Brewers snap skid vs. Reds (AP)

Rickie Weeks, Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder all hit solo homers Tuesday night and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 for the first time this season. Milwaukee had been 0-4 against the Reds this year and losers of 19 of 22 against them before Weeks homered off reliever Logan Ondrusek (2-2) to lead [...]

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Lillibridges catches in 9th lift ChiSox (AP)

Late substitute Brent Lillibridge made two spectacular catches in a row to save the White Sox in the ninth inning, and Gavin Floyd pitched Chicago to a 3-2 victory Tuesday night over the suddenly slumping New York Yankees. Lillibridge entered as a pinch-runner in the eighth and scored on Paul Konerko’s go-ahead homer off struggling [...]

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Mariners Hernandez beats Tigers again (AP)

Felix Hernandez thought he was in trouble warming up Tuesday night. The Seattle Mariners ace was sailing pitches all over the Comerica Park bullpen as he prepared to face the Detroit Tigers. “I don’t think I threw a single strike out there,” he said. “I mean it. I couldn’t throw anything over the plate.” Luckily [...]

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