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Jason Vargas is boosting the Florida Marlins on the mound and at the plate. Vargas pitched a six-hitter for his first major league complete game and hit a two-run single for ...6

When Chris Burke walked into the Astros clubhouse at Minute Maid Park on Sunday morning, he glanced at the bottom part of the lineup card manager Phil Garner had posted.5

ANAHEIM -Paul Byrd's pitches danced and crawled and avoided the powerful lumber of the Boston Red Sox for almost all of Sunday's game at Angel Stadium.4.5

HOUSTON , Andy Pettitte didn't need to be at his best to beat the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.2.7

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dustin McGowan had to absorb some innings yesterday for the team, and it wasn't a pretty sight.2.9

Last week, we asked readers to participate in a Tigers trivia contest. The winner, Larry Coley of Plymouth, won 30 tickets to the Free Press' party suite for Wednesday's ...3.1

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays won again Sunday, and again, Jonny Gomes was in the middle of everything.2.7

KINGMAN The manager of the engineering department at Mohave Countyas Public Workas Department also played with some of baseball's greatest players.2.7

The Rolling Stones began their new world tour with a concert before 36,000 people at Fenway Park here.4.3

OAKLAND, Calif. - Royals right-hander Runelvys Hernandez lasted just two innings Sunday against Oakland in what seems likely to be his last start until at least early ...2.7

When Clint Nageotte spoke hopefully before yesterday's game about being with the Mariners longer than the last time, he had no idea what was ahead.2.7

The Colorado Rockies' Jorge Piedra, center, receives congratulations from his teammates in the dugout after his three-run pinch-hit home run in the eighth inning against ...2.7

It's that time of the year already. College football is back and the schedule kicks off Thursday with home games for two area teams.3.1

The Phillies wondered how Eude Brito would do in his major-league debut after he hadn't pitched in 22 days.4

Angela Menino's formal education had ended long before, but when her husband, Tom, was elected mayor of Boston in 1993, another learning process began.2.7

Wily Mo Pena has done little to hide his frustration with the club in recent weeks.2.7

The Scrabble Guy: Stefan Fatsis recounts his struggles to escape the third division in his first dispatch from the 2005 National Scrabble Championship in Reno.2.7

The only numbers Travis Hafner is concerned with are the ones in Cleveland's win column.4.1

But no one imagined that the very first pitch the left-handed Greenberg faced in the major leagues would be a fastball that would crack him squarely in the head, smashing ...2.9

Pitching has been the story for the White Sox all season and Paul Konerko wasn't about to change that tale on Sunday.2.7

After struggling to a 6-6 record against NL West teams on their longest homestand of the season, the Atlanta Braves should realize the rest of the season is going to be just ...8

Heat. Wind. Thunder. Drizzle. Roger Federer took everything that the afternoon and Robby Ginepri could throw at him, and The Sporting Views: Why stone Moss for the truth? So ...2.7

The San Francisco Giants placed closer Tyler Walker on the 15-day disabled list Sunday with inflammation in his right shoulder.7.8

The Baltimore City Council gave preliminary approval to a $305 million publicly financed convention hotel center downtown.3.1

NEW YORK , Omar Minaya is as proud of his Dominican heritage as anybody. He is as proud, too, to be a New Yorker.2.7

Andrew Bagnato The Arizona Republic Aug. 21, 2005 12:00 AM Professional athletes and sick children have provided irresistible story lines.2.7

Normally, the departure of a TV sports suit from a network has absolutely no impact on fans.2.7

A year ago Frank Curreri of Weymouth was on top of the world. This year he is in Baseball Purgatory.2.7

In South San Francisco there stands an oak with a very special heritage: It grew from an acorn taken from the Tree of Gernika in Spain, the most revered symbol of Basque ...2.7

The Web sites crop up for different reasons, fans in search of something more. They are out there, everywhere, Internet creations to soothe the soul.2.7

Lee Mitchell singled home Kevin Randel with the winning run in the top of the eighth inning as the Jupiter Hammerheads edged the Vero Beach Dodgers 5-4 on Saturday night at ...2.7

David Eckstein didn't bother asking his family if he should come home this week.2.9

Injured right fielder Mike Cameron expects to miss the rest of the New York Mets' season while he recovers from a violent collision with teammate Carlos Beltran.5.3

Six weeks ago, before Jeff Francoeur became famous, he was gassing up his brother's car in Brookhaven when a guy at the other pump began talking to him about football.2.7