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Justin Germano is complicating San Diego’s rotation and that’s a good thing for the Padres. Germano, promoted from Triple-A Portland on May 8 to replace injured Clay Hensley (strained groin), held Seattle to an unearned run and six hits in six innings and the Padres beat the Mariners 2-1 on Sunday. Germano (2-0) has allowed [...]

Reliever Joel Peralta couldn’t describe his first major league hit.
His eyes were closed.
Peralta, a converted shortstop, connected on a two-run double in a five-run 12th inning as the Kansas City Royals beat the Colorado Rockies 10-5 on Sunday.
In his excitement, Peralta almost forgot to start running around the bases after his double into the left-center [...]

Tom Glavine and John Smoltz bring 494 wins to their Thursday matchup. Dayn Perry says they’re pitching like it’s the good ol’ days.
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Kason Gabbard came up from Triple-A and stuck around just long enough to give the Boston Red Sox a win.
Gabbard was called up from Pawtucket on Sunday morning, waited through a storm that delayed his first pitch 2 1/2 hours, and went back down to the minors after striking out a career-high seven batters to [...]

Kason Gabbard came up from Triple-A and struck out a career-high seven batters while shutting Atlanta out for the first five innings to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 6-3 victory over the Braves on Sunday. Called up earlier in the day to make his 2007 debut, Gabbard (1-0) held Atlanta hitless through 3 [...]

Kason Gabbard came up from Triple-A and struck out a career-high seven batters while shutting Atlanta out for the first five innings to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 6-3 victory over the Braves on Sunday.
Called up earlier in the day to make his 2007 debut, Gabbard (1-0) held Atlanta hitless through 3 2-3 [...]

Tyler Clippard became the seventh rookie pitcher to start for the New York Yankees when he was promoted from Triple-A to make his major league debut Sunday night against the New York Mets. No team in the last 50 years has used as many different rookie starters so early in a season, the Elias Sports [...]

NL MVP Ryan Howard, on the disabled list with a left quadriceps strain, field grounders Sunday and is on target to return to the Philadelphia Phillies this week. Howard said he felt fine after talking groundballs for nearly 45 minutes before the Phillies beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3, and planned to play at Atlanta [...]

The Pirates optioned right-handed reliever Marty McLeary to Triple-A Indianapolis on Sunday, a day after helping squander a six-run lead against Arizona by allowing Tony Clark’s pinch-hit grand slam. The Pirates also optioned first baseman-outfielder Brad Eldred to Indianapolis and activated catcher Humberto Cota from the disabled list.
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Ryan Shealy’s broken-bat single to right in the 12th inning brought in the go-ahead run and Joel Peralta added a two-run double in his first major league at-bat as the Kansas City Royals beat the Colorado Rockies 10-5 on Sunday. The Royals scored five runs off reliever Ramon Ramirez in the 12th inning.
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