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  • Mets manager Collins learning how to manage Wright

    May 16, 2012

    NEW YORK (AP) - Terry Collins is learning how to manage David Wright's work ethic and sense of accountability.For the second time this season, Collins made a decision meant to make sure the Mets' best player stays healthy and productive, even if Wright objected. After a Mets reliever hit Milwaukee's best player, Ryan Braun, with a pitch, Wright wanted to make sure that he was the one who got hit by a retaliatory pitch.

  • Column: Return of Manny Ramirez is big con

    May 16, 2012

    The state of Rhode Island is having trouble collecting some of the millions it lent former pitcher Curt Schilling, another reminder why chasing celebrity is almost always a bad thing.Schilling met with the state's governor on Wednesday to ask for even more help, after his 38 Studios company missed a $1.1 million payment on a $75 million loan guarantee state officials gave him to lure the video game company from Massachusetts two years ago.

  • Phillies place RHP Worley on 15-day DL

    May 16, 2012

    CHICAGO (AP) - The Philadelphia Phillies have placed right-hander Vance Worley on the 15-day disabled list with right elbow inflammation.Worley was originally scheduled to start Wednesday night at Chicago but was replaced by Kyle Kendrick. Worley's DL stint is retroactive to May 12.

  • Leyland: Valverde day to day with back issue

    May 16, 2012

    DETROIT (AP) - Detroit manager Jim Leyland says closer Jose Valverde is day to day with a strained lower back.Valverde was taken out of Detroit's victory over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday, and Leyland says if Valverde is unable to pitch, Joaquin Benoit would probably be the primary candidate to close games. However, the Detroit manager says it could depend on the situation and he ``wouldn't etch that in stone.''

  • Lawrie joins list of baseball's wildest rants

    May 16, 2012

    Helmet tossing and bat banging have become all the rage, it seems. Yet Brett Lawrie and Bryce Harper still have a long way to go before hitting our list of baseball's wildest rants and raves.These guys all rank:---GEORGE BRETTHas a player ever looked more crazed on a ballfield than Mr. Pine Tar? Seriously, ever? Arms waving, eyes bulging and screaming with every step, the Royals star charged from the Yankee Stadium dugout after umpire Tim McClelland called him out in 1983. It took other umpires, teammates and even opponents to settle down Brett, and nearly a month to officially finish the game. Almost 30 years later, it might be the most-replayed meltdown ever. ``I went a little ballistic,'' he said.

  • Nationals RHP Wang says he's willing to relieve

    May 16, 2012

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Right-hander Chien-Ming Wang is willing to pitch in relief - as unlikely as it seems that the Washington Nationals would ask him to do that.Wang has yet to pitch for Washington this season after hurting his left hamstring during a spring training appearance March 15. He's slated to make one more start at Triple-A Syracuse as part of his rehab work but was in Washington on Wednesday to throw a bullpen session in front of coaches.

  • Heyward playing CF in new-look Braves lineup

    May 16, 2012

    ATLANTA (AP) - Fredi Gonzalez juggled his lineup for Wednesday night's game against the Miami Marlins, giving Michael Bourn his first day off this season.With the Braves in the middle of a stretch when they play 33 games in 34 days, Gonzalez said he chose Wednesday to give Bourn and third baseman Chipper Jones a break. Juan Francisco is starting at third base.

  • Indians righty Tomlin to get second MRI on wrist

    May 16, 2012

    CLEVELAND (AP) - Josh Tomlin isn't quite sure when he will be back on the mound for the Cleveland Indians.The right-hander said Wednesday that he is scheduled for a second MRI on his injured right wrist.``It's basically getting another opinion because the first one showed two different things,'' said Tomlin. ``We're still not sure what it is, how it happened, and when it will clear up.''

  • Morneau back in lineup for Twins

    May 16, 2012

    DETROIT (AP) - Minnesota's Justin Morneau is coming off the 15-day disabled list and is hitting fifth for the Twins on Wednesday night against the Detroit Tigers.Morneau is set to play first base after telling Twins manager Ron Gardenhire he wanted to play there, rather than be the designated hitter. Morneau has been on the DL since May 1 with a sore left wrist. In 20 games this season, he is batting .230 with five doubles, four home runs and nine RBIs.

  • Pirates recall RHP Meek, option OF Presley

    May 16, 2012

    WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pittsburgh Pirates have recalled right-hander Evan Meek from Triple-A Indianapolis before Wednesday's game against the Washington Nationals and optioned slumping outfielder Alex Presley to the minors.Meek, an NL All-Star in 2010, was sent to Indianapolis on May 1 with a 5.59 ERA in nine games with Pittsburgh. He allowed just two hits in six scoreless innings at Indianapolis.

  • Jays' Lawrie suspended 4 games for ump altercation

    May 16, 2012

    TORONTO (AP) - Brett Lawrie heard the penalty, then expressed just one regret about his tantrum: that his batting helmet bounced up and hit an umpire.Major League Baseball suspended Lawrie for four games and fined him an undisclosed amount Wednesday, a day after the Toronto third baseman got into an altercation with umpire Bill Miller.

  • Jays' Lawrie in lineup a day after ump altercation

    May 16, 2012

    TORONTO (AP) - Brett Lawrie is in the lineup for the Toronto Blue Jays a day after his altercation with an umpire.Blue Jays manager John Farrell says Lawrie hopes to apologize to umpire Bill Miller for hitting him with his batting helmet after being ejected from Monday's game.

  • Former major leaguer Kevin Hickey dead at 56

    May 16, 2012

    CHICAGO (AP) - Kevin Hickey, who pitched in six major league seasons with the White Sox and the Baltimore Orioles before taking a coaching job with Chicago, has died. He was 56.The team said Hickey died Wednesday at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He had been in intensive care following his transfer from a Dallas hospital last month after missing the team's workout before Opening Day. A cause of death was not disclosed.

  • MLB announces Mets as 2013 All-Star host

    May 16, 2012

    NEW YORK (AP) - Mr. Met stood near the podium with baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, Mets owner Fred Wilpon and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.``Thanks for bringing your boss along,'' Bloomberg said to the mascot. ``Does he pay you well?''After more than three years of trouble on and off the field, the Mets feel things are looking up.

  • Clemens accuser McNamee: 'I didn't make it up'

    May 16, 2012

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Roger Clemens' lawyer toyed with Brian McNamee's memory and attacked him from several directions at once. The attorney even put an easel next to the witness with the words: ``MISTAKE. BAD MEMORY. LIE.'' Eventually, there came the inevitable question: ``Do you sometimes just make stuff up?''

  • Schilling's video game co. asks RI for more help

    May 16, 2012

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling asked Rhode Island for additional help to save his video game company Wednesday, prompting state leaders to consider whether the firm is viable enough to justify further investment.Schilling briefed Gov. Lincoln Chafee and the state's Economic Development Corp. board in a closed-door session.