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Nats' Strasburg returns to IL with neck strain
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Wednesday, 02 June 2021 16:05
The Washington Nationals have placed Stephen Strasburg on the 10-day injured list with a neck strain, the team announced Wednesday.The move comes a day after the right-hander exited a start against the Braves after just 1 1/3 innings due to what the team said at the time was a tight right trapezius muscle.It was his third start since returning from…
MLB bans 4 in minors for doctoring baseballs
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Wednesday, 02 June 2021 10:47
Four minor league pitchers have been suspended this season by Major League Baseball after being caught using illegal foreign substances to doctor baseballs, signaling a stronger crackdown in the game's feeder system than in the big leagues during a historically dominant stretch by pitchers.Chicago White Sox organization right-hander Marcus Evey of Low-A Kannapolis received a 10-game ban from MLB after…
'Second Opening Day' for Reds gets washed out
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Wednesday, 02 June 2021 10:47
CINCINNATI -- The series finale between the Phillies and the Reds scheduled for Wednesday -- billed as Cincinnati's "Second Opening Day" -- was postponed because of rain.Wednesday's game was to have been the first time this season that a capacity, mask-less crowd was allowed at Great American Ball Park, and the Reds had planned a slate of festivities. COVID-19 restrictions…
Stroman irked by 'racist undertones' in TV crack
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Wednesday, 02 June 2021 06:30
Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman referred to "racist undertones" in a tweet late Tuesday night after television analyst Bob Brenly made comments about the right-hander's head covering during New York's game against the Diamondbacks.Brenly, the former World Series-winning manager who now calls Diamondbacks games for Bally Sports Arizona, made a crack about Stroman's attire during the fourth inning Tuesday."Pretty sure that's…
The Ballad of Bryan Wayne Galentine: How one man's dream led to creation of Lou Gehrig Day across MLB
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Wednesday, 02 June 2021 09:09
WHEN HE WAS told he was going to die, Bryan Wayne Galentine started to think about what he wanted to leave behind. Every day, for however long amyotrophic lateral sclerosis allowed him to live, the disease was going to steal from him. It would come for his legs, and then it would attack his lungs, and then it would rob…
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