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Starting Five: D'backs Double Down

Starting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a quick nod to what is ahead.You Oughta Know ...That things got weird, awfully weird, at Petco Park on Sunday. The Diamondbacks carried a five-run lead into the ninth inning against San Diego thanks to seven innings of one-run ball by Dan Haren and a...

The Dugout: Costas Ow!

If B, Nick and myself were to credit everyone who has really helped out The Dugout -- everyone at FanHouse, Jamie Mottram, Carl Bialik, Dan Shanoff, Matt Ufford, to name a few -- the list would go on forever. At the top of the list, though, would have to be Will Leitch. For the first couple of years we wrote it, we were...

The Movement to Retire Jason Simontacchi's Number 46

Apparently, this movement has been around for a while, as some very appreciative Cardinals fans started selling t-shirts with "Retire 46" on it, in honor of former Cardinal, Italian Olympic pitcher, and current Nationals pitcher Jason Simontacchi ... and in reference to the more famous "Retire 51" movement, an attempt to...