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Report: Two First-Time World Series Umpires on Giants-Rangers Crew

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The World Series umpiring crew will have a couple of first-timers -- unlike last year. Stung by a spate of missed calls in the playoffs last season, Major League Baseball switched away from recent tradition and brought in only umps with previous World Series experience. Umpires Sam Holbrook...

Orlando Cabrera Likely Out for Game 3; Paul Janish to Start for Reds

CINCINNATI -- Headed toward what could be their final game of 2010, the Reds apparently will make a change at shortstop Sunday when the series moves to Ohio. Manager Dusty Baker said that Orlando Cabrera -- who left Game 2 on Friday in Philadelphia because of an injury to his left side -- probably will not play in Game 3...

Pitch F/X From Roy Halladay's No-No Backs Umpire Over Orlando Cabrera

Orlando Cabrera wasn't willing to admit that Roy Halladay was on his game on Wednesday. Facing 28 batters and retiring 27 of them without a hit impressed just about everyone else on the planet, but Orlando wasn't having it. Cue the eerie synthesizer music because someone's got a conspiracy theory. "(Halladay) was...

The Dugout: Red Doctor October

Here is something you should know: Roy Halladay is really good at baseball. He's really actually good, and Phillies fans have stopped running around on the field like idiots and profusely vomiting on children to take notice. Last night he pitched only the second no-hitter in the history of baseball, compiling some kind of...

Give Galarraga His Perfecto, Baseball More Replay

I'm not ashamed to admit that my tear ducts were filling. There was Armando Galarraga, whose perfection was sabotaged by a case of hideous imperfection Wednesday night, talking about what he'll tell his little boy. "I got a perfect game," he declared. "Maybe it's not in the book, but I'm going to show my son the CD." When...