Ex-Sox starter Esteban Loaiza got rid of his goatee but couldn’t get off the schneid, allowing five runs in six innings in a loss to Oakland in his New York Yankees debut.
Wild-card races
Listen not to the critics, for there is no shame in a race for fourth place.
NL / GB
CUBS –
San Diego 1
San Francisco 2
Philadelphia 4
Houston 5
AL / GB
Texas –
Boston 1.5
Anaheim 3
SOX 4.5
Cleveland 6.5
Big Cat is back
Andres Galarraga, 43, signed a minor league deal to play with Anaheim’s Triple-A Salt Lake team. With 398 homers, Galarraga beat cancer for a second time and wants to return to reach 400 home runs.
House Beer
Thanks to an extension of their naming rights deal with Anheuser-Busch, the new downtown St. Louis ballpark will also be called Busch Stadium. The $387 million, 46,000-seat stadium is set to open in 2006.
