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ROCKIES VS. PHILLIES Game 1: Wednesday, 2:37 p.m. Where: Philadelphia CARDINALS VS. DODGERS Game 1: Wednesday, 9:37 p.m. Where: Los Angeles TWINS VS. YANKEES Game 1: Wednesday, 6:07 p.m. Where: New York RED SOX VS. ANGELS Game 1: Thursday, 9:37 p.m. Where: Los Angeles

NEW YORK — Yankees pitcher David Robertson and Mets first baseman Ike Davis will help host a Long Island golf tournament to raise money for victims of Superstorm Sandy. It will be held July 17 at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, the course for the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open. The tournament is scheduled for the day after the All-Star game at Citi Field in New York. Also taking part will be former major leaguers Ken Griffey Jr., Bobby Bonilla, Aaron Boone, Ron Darling, Al Leiter and Jeff Nelson.

What: 50-round player selection When: 2-9 p.m. Thursday, 11:30 a.m. Friday TV: ESPN2, Thursday, 2-6 p.m. OTHER TOP LOCAL PROSPECTS LHP Danny Hultzen St. Albans The All-Met Player of the Year skyrocketed up the draft charts to become the top local prospect this year, but remains steadfast in his desire not to sign and to go to Virginia. LHP Scott Silverstein St. John's Highly regarded entering the season, he had soreness in his shoulder and did not pitch.

We are in the midst of a double-pronged saves crisis in Major League Baseball , and, frankly, it's keeping Couch Slouch up at night. First of all, the "save rule" has been under fire for years. Second of all, baseball's best closers hardly ever blow save opportunities anymore; they're so reliable, they make FedEx look like the U.S. Postal Service. We'll deal with the save rule first because, well, I brought it up first. A relief pitcher on the winning team recording the last out can earn a...

Jeffrey Loria, the worst owner in baseball, first tried to enter the big leagues in 1994 with a bid to buy the Baltimore Orioles . Baltimore lucked out. The city got an owner who was more competent, more loyal to the town and rich enough that he wasn't tempted to turn the franchise into his own personal revenue-sharing ATM. Instead of Loria, Baltimore got Peter Angelos. That's how bad Loria is. The reason Washington now has the Nationals , the team with the best regular season record in baseball,...

On Tuesday, Wilson Ramos pulled on his Aragua Tigers uniform in Maracay, Venezuela, and took batting practice, a mundane act that had taken on new significance. During the lowest points of his kidnapping ordeal — the time he spent in captivity between his abduction the night of Nov. 9 and rescue 51 hours later — Ramos wondered if he would ever play baseball again. As the catcher for the Washington Nationals returned to drills, Major League Baseball's general managers...

It was a rainy night in Boston late in the summer of 1971 when the owners of the American League teams voted to allow Bob Short to move his Washington Senators to Arlington, Tex. I was covering that league meeting for the now-defunct Washington Daily News. Shirley Povich, the revered columnist of The Washington Post, called the approval by the AL owners (the Orioles voted against the move) the "highest form of treachery. " "Not to have the national pastime in...

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Teams from Philadelphia and New York tangled four times in three different sports over the weekend. SATURDAY NBA 76ers 141, Knicks 127 MLB Yankees 8, Phillies 5 SUNDAY NFL Eagles 40, Giants 17 MLB Yankees at Phillies, Late

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees have sent right-hander Brett Marshall back to the minors after a lengthy relief stint in his major league debut. The Yankees promoted right-hander Dellin Betances from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The team made the moves Thursday. Marshall threw 108 pitches over 5 2-3 innings Wednesday night. Manager Joe Girardi left him in during a 12-2 loss to Seattle, trying to preserve his bullpen. Marshall allowed five runs on nine hits and five walks.

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball appears set for a vast expansion of video review by umpires in 2014 and is examining whether all calls other than balls and strikes should be subject to instant replay. Replay has been in place for home run calls since August 2008. Commissioner Bud Selig initially wanted to add trap plays and fair/foul calls down the lines for 2013, but change was put off while more radical options were examined. "My opinion has evolved," Selig said Thursday after MLB...

ST. LOUIS — The New York Mets finally showed some offensive life on Tuesday night. The Mets broke out of a prolonged hitting slump by pushing across four runs, but it wasn't enough to avoid their fifth loss in a row in a 10-4 setback against the St. Louis Cardinals. New York had not scored more than three runs in its previous seven games. The Mets scored only 10 runs in their previous four outings before breaking loose with four runs in the sixth. Marlon Byrd...

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball suspended umpire Fieldin Culbreth for two games on Friday because he was in charge of the crew that allowed Astros manager Bo Porter to improperly switch relievers in the middle of an inning. Culbreth and the rest of his crew — Brian O'Nora, Bill Welke and Adrian Johnson — were also fined an undisclosed amount after MLB admitted its umps goofed for the second straight day. "The rule covering pitching changes was not applied correctly by the...

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball suspended umpire Fieldin Culbreth for two games on Friday because he was in charge of the crew that allowed Astros manager Bo Porter to improperly switch relievers in the middle of an inning. Culbreth and the rest of his crew — Brian O'Nora, Bill Welke and Adrian Johnson — were also fined an undisclosed amount, after MLB admitted its umps goofed for the second straight day. "The rule covering pitching changes was not applied...

Harper won't be fined by MLB for ejection Major League Baseball decided to not suspend or fine Bryce Harper after reviewing his ejection Sunday in the first inning. The league also will not suspend veteran umpire John Hirschbeck, whose actions in throwing out Harper came under fine in many corners as overly zealous. "That's great," Harper said. "I'm glad I don't have to pay the $1,000. That's another $1,000 in my pocket. That's MLB's decision. I respect that, definitely. If I was to get fined, I'd respect...

The emergence of T.C. Williams right-hander Alec Grosser as a big-league prospect is a multi-state odyssey that features a flat tire along Interstate 75 near Ringgold, Ga., a familiar Good Samaritan, a 425-mile drive, a late arrival at Kiwanis Field in Salem, Va., and an impromptu head-snapping performance that had seen-it-all professional scouts exchanging puzzled do-you-see-what-I-see? glances. "A year ago, if someone had told me I'd be in a spot like this," said Grosser, who has been contacted...