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Greg Cote: Browns QB Deshaun Watson now knows he will be a pariah to fans in stadiums across the NFL
You can have his $230 million contract. But you have to be Deshaun Watson. You have to feel what it feels like to have ruined your good name. You have to feel all of the guilt you can never admit to. You have to hear everything — every ugly chant that mocks you with angry derision. And you have to wonder if any of it will ever go away. Would you make that deal? To be Deshaun Watson ... to be so rich but at such cost. What if all of the money in the world was not enough to buy back your reputation? It got real for Watson the other night. It got football-real and real ugly. “The crowd was loud f...
Miami Herald
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Sam Haggerty starts the chaos on the basepaths as Mariners score 4 in 9th to beat Angels
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The speedy annoyance of the baseball mosquito that is Sam Haggerty lighted the fuse. The true nature of a losing team going nowhere slowly revealed itself in the mistake-filled chaos that followed. And as the cheers of “Let’s go Mariners! Let’s go Mariners!” overtook the smattering of deserved boos for the home team at Angel Stadium, the pensive frustration on Scott Servais’ face for eight innings was replaced by a smirk of success. The Mariners’ 6-2 victory over the Angels on Monday night offered everything that Servais believes makes this team special — outstanding starting...
The Seattle Times
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Powering Giants’ 4th straight win, Joey Bart goes from ‘black hole’ to offensive catalyst
SAN FRANCISCO — Two months ago, the Giants would have considered their rally over, kaput and done with if faced with the same situation that presented itself Monday night. There were two runners on base, one out and Joey Bart was stepping to the plate. On Monday, after a demotion to Triple-A, an overhaul of his swing and a “vote of confidence” from the Giants front office, the at-bat ended in two RBIs and Bart’s third hit of the night. No longer is Bart a “black hole” — the words used by former catcher Curt Casali — nor struggling to put together “competitive” at-bats, the criticism once level...
The Mercury News
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Dylan Cease is ready for Tuesday’s showdown vs. Justin Verlander. ‘It’s exciting,’ the Chicago White Sox starter says.
CHICAGO — Growing up, Dylan Cease always looked forward to watching a Justin Verlander start. “Just the fact that, especially back in the day, he would start out at 92 (mph) and finish at 101,” Cease said Monday. “I remember watching him a lot as a kid and seeing that. The fact that I’m here now and he’s still doing it, it’s pretty rare.” Cease and Verlander, candidates for the American League Cy Young Award, are the scheduled starters Tuesday when the Chicago White Sox continue their four-game series with the Houston Astros at Guaranteed Rate Field. “You got Cease for us has been killing it, ...
Chicago Tribune
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Tigers end 8-game skid, split doubleheader with 7-5 win in Cleveland
CLEVELAND — For different reasons, they both badly needed to see balls fly into the seats. Veteran Jonathan Schoop, mired in a season-long hitting slump, and rookie Kerry Carpenter, who was leading the minor leagues with 30 homers when he got called up and hadn't sniffed one in the big leagues, hit homers on back-to-back pitches in the top of the sixth inning, breaking a 3-3 tie and helping the Tigers earn a split of the doubleheader against Cleveland, 7-5. Schoop, who had struck out in his previous four at-bats, struggling to catch-up to fastballs, got a 2-1 changeup from reliever Eli Morgan ...
The Detroit News
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Marlins’ Sandy Alcantara throws 7 more shutout innings vs. Padres to build Cy Young case
MIAMI — Sandy Alcantara took the mound Monday with the Miami Marlins tumbling through their worst stretch of the season, to face the always-daunting San Diego Padres and their own All-Star ace. There is seldom much margin for error for Alcantara and it was even more so the case this time. The Padres did give him a challenge — Alcantara battled an unusually high pitch count through four innings and was uncharacteristically reliant on strikeouts — and still he rose to it to end his team’s misery for at least one night. It was another seven scoreless innings for the All-Star starting pitcher and,...
Miami Herald
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Edmundo Sosa leads Phillies’ revived offense to 4-3 victory over Reds
CINCINNATI — A few hours before the start of every series, the Phillies hold scouting meetings. The pitchers go over how to attack opposing hitters; the hitters review opposing pitchers. It’s a good time to bring up new topics or raise concerns. As the hitters met Monday, Rob Thomson presented a few stats. Even though the Phillies got shut out in back-to-back games in New York last weekend and scored a total of two runs in the last four games, the interim manager noted that they still ranked sixth in the majors in both batting average and slugging percentage with runners in scoring position. C...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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KC Royals pitcher Garrett receives a 3-game suspension from MLB for throwing drink at fan
Kansas City Royals left-handed reliever Amir Garrett expressed regret multiple times for throwing his drink at a fan who heckled him from the stands in Chicago earlier this month, but Major League Baseball’s central office decided to impose disciplinary action anyway. MLB announced on Monday afternoon that Garrett had received a three-game suspension and an undisclosed fine for throwing a drink on a spectator in the stands during a game against the Chicago White Sox on August 2, at Guaranteed Rate Field. The announcement came from Michael Hill, MLB’s senior vice president for on-field operatio...
The Kansas City Star
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After firing the manager, the joke is not the Texas Rangers. It’s the guy in charge.
It bears repeating that the current state of the Texas Rangers is on owner Ray Davis, whose affection for team president Jon Daniels is so unbelievable it’s said to be the basis for the next Nicholas Sparks’ novel. A Sparks’ romance novel is more plausible than the Jon Daniels story with the Texas Rangers. Since JD was promoted to the role of general manager in October of 2005, ostensibly to be the Rangers’ version of Theo Epstein, the club has: Changed owners, dumped Nolan Ryan in favor of Daniels, had seven different managers, moved into a new stadium, is in the midst of its sixth consecutiv...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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If Seahawks QB competition remains close, Geno Smith will win job
Dare I say, the second and third game of the Seahawks’ preseason might be more intriguing than the second-to-last and third-to-last game of the Seahawks’ regular season. Las Vegas gets things wrong sometimes, but the eternally-expanding-and-developing strip tells you that its consensus prediction that Seattle wins no more than six of its 17 contests next season has some merit. But the usually-irrelevant preseason — one that rarely saw Russell Wilson on the field over the past few years — is stocked with legitimate suspense. It features a quarterback battle between Geno Smith and Drew Lock that...
The Seattle Times
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