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Philadelphia (37-34) at Cleveland (41-29) PreviewThe Cleveland Indians once again have company at the top of the AL Central. They’ll turn to their ace to try and avoid losing any more ground. C.C. Sabathia tries to prevent the Indians from falling out of first place for the first time in nearly four weeks when he takes the mound in Wednesday’s series finale against the Philadelphia Phillies. Cleveland (41-29) won Monday’s series opener 10-1, but the Phillies (37-34) evened the three-game set with a 9-6 victory on Tuesday. The Indians have lost six of their last 10 games to fall into a first-place tie with Detroit in the AL Central. They have not been out of the top spot since May 24, when they trailed the Tigers by one-half game. Barrett dealt from Cubs to PadresMichael Barrett left the fighting confines of Wrigley Field for laid-back San Diego. The Chicago Cubs traded the embattled catcher and cash to the NL West-leading Padres on Wednesday for backup catcher Rob Bowen and minor league outfielder Kyler Burke. Barrett, batting .256 with nine homers and 29 RBIs, has had problems defensively and also been involved in two dugout exchanges this month with Cubs pitchers. He and Carlos Zambrano got into a skirmish in the dugout June 1 and it carried over into the clubhouse where Barrett got a black eye and needed stitches in his lip. The Atlanta Braves had scored five runs just before Zambrano and Barrett went at it in the dugout. Zambrano pointed at his head and screamed at Barrett, who allowed a run to score on a passed ball and throwing error.
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Royals look to Dotel to solve closing woesSURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals are banking on Octavio Dotel to be the closer they didn’t have last season, when the club blew a major league-leading 31 saves. “For him to be able to do what we think he can do is going to be huge for us,” manager Buddy Bell said. “We had a lot of games we should have won last year, that we didn’t because we just couldn’t finish the games.”
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Former Reds pitcher hospitalizedCINCINNATI (AP) — Former Cincinnati Reds pitcher and broadcaster Joe Nuxhall has been hospitalized in Florida for tests for a recurrence of lymphoma, his son said Friday. The 78-year-old Nuxhall was in Sarasota for the start of the team’s spring training when he went to Sarasota Memorial Hospital on Wednesday for previously scheduled tests, son Kim Nuxhall said.
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A Babe Ruth Baseball Bat Sells For $1.3 Million!As incredible as it may sound, the old baseball bat that Babe Ruth used in hitting a home run in the very first game at Yankee Stadium, sold for nearly $1.3 million at an auction recently. Sotheby’s auction house sold the bat on December 2, 2006 at their auction. No other baseball bat in history has ever come close to selling for as much as this one used by the immortal Babe Ruth. In fact, the second highest bat that has ever been sold was one that went for $577,610 in 2001. It was a bat used by the infamous “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. You may remember him as being one of the players who were banned from baseball for their part in the famous Chicago White Sox scandal in 1919. Who purchased the Babe’s bat? At the moment the buyer is not known. It is believed that the person is a supposed collector and hobbyist of baseball collectables. What may be even more incredible is that a spokesman for the buyer told reporters afterwards that they were prepared to pay an even higher amount for the baseball bat. In a bit or irony, the bat was used to hit the home run on April 18, 1923, in a game against who else, but their arch rivals, the Boston Red Sox. What is even more ironic is the fact that the bat sold for what it nearly cost to build Yankee Stadium at the time. The original Yankee Stadium was built at a cost of $2.4 million dollars. Hard to imagine isn’t it? How did the Babe Ruth baseball bat survive the test of time to get to this point? The story goes that Babe Ruth’s agent, a woman by the name of Christy Walsh, originally gave the bat away in a home run contest many years ago. The player who won the bat held onto it through his death, and in his will, gave it to his personal nurse. She decided to try and sell the bat and use the funds to open up a cafe that she has always dreamed of doing. With a little help from others, Sotheby’s became involved and the rest is now history. Although this is the most expensive bat ever sold, it is not the most expensive price that has been paid for a piece of baseball memorabilia. The record holder? Currently, the record is $3 million for the baseball that Mark McGwire hit for home run #70 in 1998. The buyer was a comic book artist by the name of Todd McFarlane. You can find out more about the Babe Ruth Baseball Bat as well as more information on all types of bats at http://www.Ball-Bats.InfoFromA-z.com
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