Sliding on his belly, Curtis Granderson’s only concern was showing the umpires that the ball had fallen into his outstretched glove before denting a blade of outfield grass. “I knew it was real close,” he said. Just like the AL Central. Granderson’s diving grab in the eighth inning kept it tied and Magglio Ordonez hit a three-run homer in Detroit’s four-run 10th as the Tigers moved one game ahead of…
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -Brett Favre still remembers what it was like to direct an unstoppable Green Bay Packers offense. The Packers scored touchdowns on five straight possessions en route to a 35-13 rout of Seattle at Lambeau Field in the 2003 regular season. “In that game and in games like that in the past, it’s no different than any other team who’s been together for a while; you go out and you…
Plaxico Burress is no Jeremy Shockey, at least when it comes to playing on a bad ankle in training camp. Shockey pushed himself a year ago on a sprained ankle, and it ended up bothering him during the New York Giants’ regular season. Burress isn’t making the same mistake. The veteran receiver hasn’t practiced since spraining his right ankle on Aug.
Talk about timing. If Bobby Cox was going to break a dubious record, he couldn’t have picked a better moment. Cox was tossed after the fifth inning Tuesday night, breaking John McGraw’s record for career ejections, but it fired up Atlanta and may have kept Chipper Jones around to drive home the winning run.
Mired in the longest winless streak of his career, Dontrelle Willis was desperate for run support. So the Florida Marlins scored 14 times Tuesday night. Willis earned his first win since May 29, striking out 11 in seven innings and letting the Marlins’ bats do the rest in a 14-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Roy Halladay didn’t give the Los Angeles Angels a chance to recover from some sloppy fielding. The right-hander pitched his major league-leading fifth complete game and the Toronto Blue Jays took advantage of four errors to beat the Angels 4-1 on Tuesday night. “There aren’t many people who can do as many things with the baseball that he can and marry it with the control,” Angels manager Mike…
John McCargo’s injury troubles continued Tuesday when the Bills backup defensive tackle hurt his left ankle and was unable to complete practice. Coach Dick Jauron said McCargo was fine, but will have more tests. The Bills, coming off a 13-10 win over New Orleans in their preseason-opener last week, prepare to host Atlanta on Friday.
The NFL’s new guidelines on concussion management include a telephone hotline that will make it easier to report to the league when a player with a head injury is being forced to practice or play against medical advice. The league’s new concussion guidelines, many of which stemmed from a conference in June involving team trainers and doctors, were formalized Tuesday and will be sent to all players…
His speed and spunk made him a Hall of Famer. “Holy cow!” made Phil Rizzuto famous. Popular as a player and beloved as a broadcaster, the New York Yankees shortstop during their dynasty years of the 1940s and 1950s died Monday night. “The Scooter” was 89. Rizzuto had pneumonia and died in his sleep at a nursing home in West Orange, N.J., daughter Patricia Rizzuto said Tuesday.
Pedro Martinez pitched three perfect innings in his second rehabilitation start Tuesday before allowing three runs in the fourth. Martinez, who has been working his way back from right shoulder surgery in October, threw 60 pitches for the New York Mets’ Rookie-level Gulf Coast League team and then another 20 fastballs in the bullpen.
