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Starting Five: Stealing Home All the Rage

Starting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a quick nod to what is ahead.You Oughta Know ...That Sunday was a good day to steal home in the major leagues. With an assist from Carlos Zambrano, who airmailed a pitch to the backstop as Dewayne Wise attempted to suicide squeeze, Chris Getz was...

Starting Five: Ian Kinsler Goes Nuts

Starting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a nod to what's ahead.You Oughta Know ...That Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler had a pretty good night, rolling all sorts of rare feats into one ballgame. The headline is that he hit for the cycle, the first Rangers player to do that since Gary...

Gary Matthews Jr. Is Not a Happy Camper

On Sunday the Angels broke some news to Gary Matthews Jr. that most outside observers could see coming. Matthews Jr. was told he's going to be the team's fifth outfielder/DH on the depth chart behind Torii Hunter, Vladimir Guerrero, Bobby Abreu, and Juan Rivera. Matthews looked better this spring, coming off of knee...

Gary Matthews May Start Season on the DL

The Angels disabled list is filling up rather quickly this spring. It seems like everyday they're having to place another player on it. So far, it's been an affliction that's only affecting their pitching staff as the Angels have four pitchers on the disabled list in John Lackey, Kelvim Escobar, Scot Shields, and...

Jay Gibbons Admits Using Human Growth Hormone, Suspended for 15 Games

Back in September, we learned that Orioles outfielder Jay Gibbons was one of the players accused of receiving shipments of steroids and human growth hormone from the raided Signature Pharmacy in Florida. Gibbons later met with baseball's performance enhancing drug investigators, which probably wasn't as enjoyable as this...