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San Deigo and Oakland Dig Deep for Today’s Pitching Matchup

Oak­land (MLB/Janes) — Prince­ton grad­u­ate Ross Ohlen­dorf knows a thing or two about the poten­tial value of a good start­ing pitcher. The 29-year-old righty has a degree in Oper­a­tions Research and Finan­cial Engi­neer­ing, and wrote a 126-page the­sis on the invest­ments made and returns reaped by Major League clubs with Draft picks from 1989–93. So Ohlen­dorf, who has been tabbed as the Padres starter for Saturday’s game in Oak­land, should under­stand just how valu­able a strong start would be to his team and its injury-riddled pitch­ing staff. The Padres have... 

Ellis’ Three-Run Walk-Off Blast Boosts Dodgers

LOS ANGELES (MLB/Gurnick) — In nine pro­fes­sional sea­sons, A.J. Ellis never hit more than eight home runs at any level, but he already has five this year in the Major Leagues, includ­ing Sat­ur­day night’s dra­matic three-run walk-off blast in the bot­tom of the ninth inning that gave the Dodgers a 6–3 win over the Astros. “It was prob­a­bly the best feel­ing of my base­ball life,” said the 31-year-old Ellis. “It was pretty awe­some and pretty cool to run around the bases and hear the crowd and cheer­ing. I’ve got­ten to see Andre [Ethier] and Matt [Kemp] do that... 

Halladay Exits Start Due to Shoulder Soreness

ST. LOUIS (MLB/Newsfeed) — Roy Halladay’s out­ing against the Car­di­nals on Sun­day lasted just two innings as he exited as a pre­cau­tion due to right shoul­der sore­ness. He was pinch-hit for in the third with Philadel­phia trail­ing 4–0 after throw­ing 36 pitches. Hal­la­day allowed a two-out grand slam to Yadier Molina in the first inning after load­ing the bases on two sin­gles and a walk. Hal­la­day shut down the Cards in order in the sec­ond, induc­ing three groundouts. He was done after allow­ing four runs on four hits with a walk and no strikeouts. The out­ing... 

Moyer’s Foundation Receives $1 Million Grant

SAN DIEGO (MLB/Newsfeed) — Rock­ies pitcher Jamie Moyer’s char­i­ta­ble foun­da­tion to help chil­dren in dis­tress by pro­vid­ing edu­ca­tion and sup­port received the largest sin­gle grant in its 12-year his­tory, $ 1 mil­lion from the New York Life Foundation. The Moyer Foun­da­tion will be able to meet pro­gram goals such as expand­ing ser­vices to reach thou­sands of griev­ing chil­dren at free camps across the United States and Canada. Moyer and his wife, Karen, are co-founders of the foundation. The grant will focus on sus­tain­ing and estab­lish­ing new... 

Harper’s Swipe of Home a Measure of Payback

WASHINGTON (MLB/Newsfeed) — Nation­als out­fielder Bryce Harper showed how to get revenge in a 9–3 loss to the Phillies on Sun­day night. With two outs in the first inning, Cole Hamels hit Harper with his first pitch to the 19-year-old rookie, then acknowl­edged that was his intention. “I was try­ing to hit him,” Hamels said. “I’m not going to deny it. That’s just … some­thing that I grew up watch­ing, that’s what hap­pened, so I’m just try­ing to con­tinue the old base­ball. I think some peo­ple kind of get away from it. I remem­ber when I was a rookie, the... 

McNamee to Testify This Week in Clemens Trial

WASHINGTON (MLB/Newsfeed) — The government’s case against Roger Clemens reaches a cru­cial junc­ture as the fourth week of the for­mer star pitcher’s fed­eral per­jury trial begins Monday. Brian McNamee, the strength trainer who told Con­gress he injected Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs on numer­ous occa­sions and saved evi­dence he and the gov­ern­ment con­tend proves it, is due on the stand early in the week for what is expected to be the most dra­matic tes­ti­mony of the trial. With the defense poised to attack McNamee’s cred­i­bil­ity, deci­sions about... 

Fister Slated to Make First Rehab Start Wednesday

Detroit (MLB/Silva) — From CBS Sports’ Danny Kno­bler comes word that Tigers right-hander Doug Fis­ter has been cleared to make his first minor league rehab start Wednes­day evening with the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens. Fis­ter has been on the dis­abled list since the first week of the reg­u­lar sea­son due to a cos­to­chon­dral (rib cage) strain that he suf­fered in the mid­dle of his 2012 debut. He’s been play­ing catch for more than a week and made it through a full bullpen ses­sion Sat­ur­day with­out feel­ing any lin­ger­ing discomfort. Fis­ter could rejoin the Tigers’... 

Mets Battle Back in Extras to Beat Rockies

DENVER (MLB/DiComo) — Terry Collins had stressed it the night before at Coors Field, lament­ing that leads “are never safe here.” So it was Sun­day after­noon, when the Mets received a stand­out per­for­mance from Johan San­tana and finally sup­ported him with some early offense, only to blow two late leads at Coors. It could have made for an unhappy plane ride to Hous­ton. Instead, Ike Davis cued a party by plat­ing the win­ning run in a 6–5 vic­tory with his ground-ball sin­gle in the 11th. The Mets dressed up after­ward in cow­boy hats and boots and wore brightly-colored... 

Dodgers Surge to Top Spot of MLB Power Rankings

As reported on MLB.com, this week’s MLB power rank­ings see the Dodgers surge to top spot.   This Week’s Power Rank­ings This Week Move­ment Power Player Last Week 1 A three-game home sweep of the Nation­als over the week­end has put the boys from Chavez Ravine in our top spot this week. Their 16–6 record is tied for tops in the Majors with the Rangers, and a lot of it still has to do with Kemp, who con­tin­ues to astound. The lat­est feat of hero­icism was a 10th-inning walk-off homer deep, and we’re talk­ing DEEP, into the Los Ange­les night on Saturday. 3 2 How... 

Matusz, Hughes Hoping to Pitch to Potential

Bal­ti­more (MLB/Fordin) — The Yan­kees may not have expected so many obsta­cles in their path to the top of the Amer­i­can League East, but they’re pre­pared to drive around them. New York will have a chance to pull ahead of the sur­pris­ing second-place Ori­oles on Tues­day, and man­ager Joe Girardi can under­stand his opponent’s success. “I think it’s because they’ve pitched a lot bet­ter,” Girardi said. “Two of the games we played there, we could’ve lost both of those. They were tight games. So I think they’re an improved team. They’re ath­letic. Nolan...