Major League Baseball officials insisted that the All-Star Game end with a win, even if Mets third baseman David Wright and Boston Red Sox right fielder J. D. Drew had to pitch the final innings.

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USA Baseball names its 2008 Olympic roster, mixing Futures Game players with Triple-A veterans and hard-throwing San Diego State ace Stephen Strasburg.

It was a joy to walk down memory lane arm in arm with the stories inside my fan mail.

'Nobody was down, we had confidence,' Brown said. 'In the PCL, two runs is nothing. Nobody was packing it in.' Instead, Brown and his teammates packed a night's worth of offence into one inning, scoring six off the IL's top closer as the PCL rallied for

It was apparently not the most-watched All-Star Game in history. But it was probably the most-dozed-off-during.

The Grand Prairie AirHogs, an independent team west of Dallas and a few miles from the home of the Texas Rangers, offered dollar tickets to fans wearing A-Rod jerseys or dressed as Madonna on Wednesday night. Cynthia Rodriguez filed for divorce last week

A team doctor on Tuesday found that the Los Angeles Dodgers? closer, Takashi Saito, had a sprained ligament in his pitching elbow. He will not play for at least six weeks.

NEW YORK - The greatest collection of baseball talent perhaps ever assembled stood on the field Tuesday night in a glorious tribute at the All-Star Game, with many saying their final goodbye to Yankee Stadium. It was a night, they say, that will be

Billy Wagner, the Mets? closer, entered the All-Star Game with two outs, no one on base and his team held a one-run lead. He left three batters later with the score tied.