A Mercenary Howls at Baseballâs Gate
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For five minutes in the top of the eighth, Foxâs broadcast stopped being about the Red Sox and the Rockies and became the âWorld Series Presents A-Rod.â
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Incidents between baseball players and fans have long been part of the game. But they seem to be getting uglier with each year, and an imbroglio Monday night in Oakland, Calif.
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Hooligans have rarely been a feature of America&#39;s pastime, baseball, but fans and officials were creasing their brows yesterday over an ugly fracas that broke out at a game between
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Rudy Jaramillo remembers meeting Omar Minaya on a field in the Gulf Coast League in 1985, when they were charged with instructing about 50 minor leaguers from the Texas Rangers organization.
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Another game, another charge of dirty play levied by a player involved in the Red Sox-Yankees series.
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NEW YORKâAll of baseball will be buzzing today about the catch Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay saw his centre fielder make behind him in last night&#39;s first inning.
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The first homer that Pedro Feliciano allowed this year turned out to be costly.
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This time it was Jim Edmonds&#39; turn to get the hero&#39;s welcome, his joyous St. Louis Cardinals teammates surrounding him as he tried to touch home plate.
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Atlanta shortstop Rafael Furcal spent much of the day in jail after being arrested on drunken driving charges. He arrived at Turner Field about 1Â½ hours before the teamâs game against Montreal but didn&#39;t play.
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He turned a grown man&#39;s game into a day on the sandlot, straying from the confines of the playbook, fleeing trouble on the balls of his feet.
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The fan in the first row in leftfield who was hit by Mark Bellhorn&#39;s three-run homer in the fourth inning wasn&#39;t taking any chances.
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It was as if David Ortiz wanted to give a gift to every fan at Fenway Park. They had already made him a folk hero here, and his legend was about to grow.
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Jim Edmonds has a flair for the dramatic in center field, climbing walls to steal home runs and tumbling for other catches. He&#39;ll play to the crowd a bit, too.
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Omar Minaya may be the only person in baseball prepared to take Sammy Sosa off the Cubs&#39; hands and his recent offer to Pedro Martinez threatens to break up a Red Sox partnership that helped lift an 86-year curse.
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Martinez is all flamboyance and defiance, black curls hanging out of his red cap, staring down batters, gesturing to his fielders, feeding off the energy of the Fenway Park crowd.
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David Ortiz, still champagne-scented, was watching Saturday's decisive playoff game between the Yankees and Twins with a friend. Up stepped Ruben Sierra, who'd been 1 for 20 in the series, to clock a three-run homer and tie the game in the eighth. &quot;Here they come,&quot; the Red Sox slugger said. Did anyone from Eastport to Block Island expect anything else?
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As a general rule, people pay attention to the defense of their favorite team's first baseman only when he really, really, really stinks.