Struggling Sosa Dropped to Sixth in Order
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Struggling Sammy Sosa was dropped to No. 6 in the Chicago Cubs' batting order Saturday, the first time he's hit that low in more than 10 years. Booed frequently at Wrigley Field recently, Sosa was batting just .254 before Saturday's game with Florida.
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Sammy Sosa joined an elite club, hitting his 600th home run against his former team. Meanwhile, two younger sluggers hit key home runs to rally baseball's hottest teams to victories.
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After five mediocre starts, Esteban Loaiza lost his job in the New York Yankees' rotation and was sent to the bullpen yesterday. Loaiza failed to make it out of the fifth inning in Friday's 8-7 victory in Toronto. Loaiza, 0-2 with a 7.30 ERA in five starts for the Yankees, hung his head when manager Joe Torre came out to ...
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Texas Rangers star Sammy Sosa becomes the fifth member of Major League Baseball's 600 home run club.
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Sachin Tendulkar perished cheaply on his return from injury yesterday as India&#39;s top batting order crumbled to leave Australia in command of the third cricket test match.
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Besides suffering a 5-4 loss to the A&#39;s on Thursday, the Rangers saw All-Star second baseman Alfonso Soriano suffer an injury to his left leg while stealing third base in the eighth inning.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - Sammy Sosa is expected  to take a physical in Baltimore over the next couple of days as  the deal that would send the Chicago Cubs slugger to the  Baltimore Orioles moves closer to reality, according to  MLB.com.
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Alfonso Soriano has come a long way since that night in March when he refused to take his spot in left field in a spring training game. The converted second baseman had his 17th outfield assist &#151; tops in the majors &#151; in the Washington Nationals' 6-2 victory Friday night when he threw out Dave Roberts trying to score from second base to blunt a rally by San Diego Padres.
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Vienna, Austria (Sports Network) - Sixth-seeded Guillermo Canas moved on, but his fellow Argentine, fourth-seeded Juan Ignacio Chela, was among Monday&#39;s opening-round losers at the BA-CA Tennis Trophy.
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Sammy Sosa has a contract with the Texas Rangers and a chance to get back to the major leagues. Now the former slugger has to go to spring training and earn a spot on the roster.
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CHICAGO - Sammy Sosa&#39;s agent said Thursday he likely will file a grievance after the Chicago Cubs star was fined $87,400 - one day&#39;s salary - for arriving late and leaving early at the season finale.
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Sammy Sosa was fined $87,400 -- one day's salary -- for arriving late to the Cubs' regular-season finale at Wrigley Field and leaving the game early. The slugger's agent, Adam Katz , said yesterday Sosa most likely will file a grievance. Sosa arrived 70 minutes before Sunday's first pitch, and he apparently left 15 minutes after the game started without ...
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Mark DeRosa's season began with great promise. It ended with a knee injury Saturday night, the latest in a recent string of bad news for the Atlanta Braves player.
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CHICAGO - The end of the Cubs&#39; season has erupted into a war of words between Cubs right fielder Sammy Sosa and manager Dusty Baker.
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Eric Simons resigned Friday as coach of South Africa&#39;s cricket team after a string of dismal performances which saw the country slip from second to sixth in world Test rankings.
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The game unraveled in the sixth inning when errors on consecutive plays and a mental gaffe by Jorge Sosa turned a 5-4 Washington lead into a 9-4 advantage.
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CHICAGO (Sports Network) - Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa  has reportedly been fined $87,400, equal to his salary for one  game, by the team for his decision to leave Sunday's season  finale early.