The Boston Red Sox announed Friday night that Terry Francona is out as the team’s manager. Reports had been circulating throughout the day that Franco and the Red Sox had parted way, but the club made it offical just as Game 1 of the A.L.
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At least we didn’t have to hear Jose Reyes trot out those lame sports cliches about how the credit should go to his teammates. This one was all about him. On a night that every Little League coach should immediately burn from memory, the New York Mets shortstop turtled his way to the NL batting title with a bunt single, a request to be pulled from the game, and a chorus of boos from the 28,000…
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The biggest win for the Mets this season may have come this week in a federal courthouse. The team’s owners have been relieved from much of a $1 billion lawsuit filed on behalf of the victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Whether that gives the financially hobbled ballclub more flexibility to retain Jose Reyes remains to be seen.
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Jason Giambi had never seen a power outage this severe. After watching scoring and home runs drop to levels not seen in two decades, he thinks he understands why. “There’s a good generation of young pitchers who have come up and established themselves,” said the Colorado first baseman, an AL MVP in the long-gone sluggers’ era.
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The Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics will open next season in Japan with a two-game series at the Tokyo Dome on March 28 and 29. Seattle and Oakland had been scheduled to play there in March 2003, but the series was scrapped because of the threat of war in Iraq. The A’s will be the home team in both games, the MLB commissioner’s office said Wednesday.
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Terry Collins is getting more time to turn around the New York Mets. The Mets exercised the 2013 option on their manager Tuesday, announcing the move shortly before their next-to-last game of the season. “I’m proud of the way the players have played,” Collins said after the Mets lost to Cincinnati 5-4 in 13 innings.
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EDITORS: The Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets are tied at 4 after nine innings. AP Sports
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New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes has insisted all season that he wasn’t concerned about the National League batting race, not when he was ahead and not when he was behind. And if he won’t let it affect him, he at least admits that he can’t help but watch his place in…
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Say what you will about the 2011 New York Mets, but at least they are going down with a fight. Sure, the Mets lost 9-4 on Sunday, Sept. 25 to the Philadelphia Phillies and Roy Halladay, but are we really going to hold that against them?
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The St. Louis Cardinals, left for dead — again — after a brutal ninth-inning loss to the New York Mets on Thursday and a setback against the Chicago Cubs the next night, have been revived. Yadier Molina’s seventh-inning homer tied the score at 2-2 Sunday against the Cubs, and…
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