Published May 15, 2013
Sports Network
St. Petersburg, FL – Tampa Bays Rays ace David Price left Wednesday's game against the Boston Red Sox in the third inning with an undisclosed injury.
Price had given up back-to-back RBI singles from Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz with one out in the fourth, before departing.
Jamey Wright took over on the mound.
Published April 26, 2013
Sports Network
Bronx, NY – Starting pitcher Ivan Nova and catcher Francisco Cervelli both left the New York Yankees' game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday due to apparent injuries.
Cervelli was removed after taking a foul tip from Toronto's Rajai Davis, the game's leadoff batter, off his right hand to begin the top of the first inning. He was replaced by Chris Stewart.
Nova walked off the field after a consultation with the Yankees' trainer after surrendering a single by Davis with none out in the third inning. The team has yet to disclose the nature of the injury.
David Phelps came in in relief of Nova, who was charged with two runs allowed on four hits while throwing 54 pitches in two-plus innings of work.
Published April 24, 2013
Sports Network
Oklahoma City, OK – Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin exited Game 2 of the Western Conference quarterfinals against the Oklahoma City Thunder due to a muscle contusion in his right chest.
Lin suffered the injury early in the third quarter and went to the locker room to have it checked out. His return is questionable.
Lin is playing in his first playoff series after signing with the Rockets last offseason. He averaged 13.4 points and 6.1 assists during the regular season, but struggled with four points and four assists in Houston's Game 1 loss on Sunday.
At the time of his injury Wednesday, Lin had logged seven points, three assists and four rebounds.
Oakland, CA – Jed Lowrie had two hits, one RBI and one run scored, while Bartolo Colon pitched six strong innings as the Oakland Athletics swept a three-game series from the Houston Astros for the second time this season with a 7-5 victory.
Josh Reddick drove in two runs with a double for Oakland, which has won 12 of 14 after dropping its first two games of the season. John Jaso added an RBI, two hits and a run scored and Seth Smith went 3-for-5.
Colon (2-0) yielded one run on four hits and struck out three in the victory.
Carlos Pena and Rick Ankiel each hit solo homers for the Astros, who have dropped five straight. Starter Bud Norris (2-2) lasted only two-thirds of an inning and gave up six runs on five hits while walking three batters. He threw 46 pitches before exiting.
Norris also struggled in a 6-3 loss to Oakland on April 6, allowing five runs - two earned - while throwing 122 pitches in 5 2/3 innings.
Houston made it a 1-0 game in the first inning. With one out, Chris Carter's fielder's choice scored Jose Altuve, who singled to lead off the frame.
The lead was short-lived, though, as Jaso doubled just inside the left-field line to lead off the first frame for the home team. Chris Young plated Jaso to make it 1-1 with a single to left-center. After Smith hit an infield single, Lowrie drew a walk to load the bases with no outs.
Josh Donaldson fouled out to first base, but Reddick followed and made the most of the opportunity with a two-run double to right field to make it 3-1. Derek Norris walked to once again load the bases and Eric Sogard hit a line drive through the right side scoring Lowrie.
The inning still wasn't done, as Shane Peterson drew a walk to make it 5-1 and Jaso, batting for the second time in the frame, hit a fielder's choice to second base scoring Norris which made it 6-1. Lowrie's fielders choice in the fourth scored Peterson to make it 7-1.
The Astros still trailed by six in the seventh, before Pena came through with a one-out solo blast to right to make it 7-2. Later in the frame, Marwin Gonzalez singled to center to score Brandon Barnes and Altuve followed with an RBI single to right to cut the deficit to 7-4.
Ankiel knocked a pinch-hit solo home run to right-center in the ninth off Grant Balfour. After Matt Dominguez singled to left, Balfour got Gonzalez to ground into a force out at second and Altuve's chopper turned into an easy double play which ended the game and gave the righty reliever his third save of the year.
Game Notes
Colon beat the Astros in his first start of the year and is 5-2 over eight starts in his career ... Norris joined fellow Astros pitcher Erik Bedard (April 15 versus Oakland) as the second Houston starter this season to last two-thirds innings or fewer and allow six-plus earned runs ... Oakland has won 11 straight versus AL West foes.
Published April 01, 2013
Associated Press
DENVER – A clerical error allowed the man suspected of killing Colorado's prisons chief to be released from custody about four years early.
Court administrators acknowledged the error in a statement Monday. They said that in 2008, Evan Spencer Ebel pleaded guilty to assaulting a prison guard. He was supposed to spend four additional years in prison.
A court clerk failed to note that the sentence was supposed to be served after the one Ebel was already serving. As a result, prison records showed it should run at the same time as the 8-year assault sentence Ebel was already serving. He was released Jan. 28.
Ebel was killed in a shootout in Texas on March 21. He used the same gun that was used to kill prisons chief Tom Clements days earlier.
