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This makes as much sense as the Greek Evzones Marching at Slope puzzle that doesn't exist.

And as the ball quickly left the yard and Utley quickly rounded the bases , most of the 46,000 fans, holding on desperately to hope, poured their love from every direction.

Andy Pettitte throwing on three days' rest? Even with his postseason record, it seemed like a dicey proposition, especially after A.J. Burnett blew up in Game 5 of the World Series.

THE MOOD outside Citizens Bank Park yesterday afternoon reflected the gray skies.

Andy Pettitte, who earned the win in Game 3, is expected to be the starter in Game 6 - but Joe Girardi would not say for sure.

He's a lefty, a finesse guy whose the right age to have watched the Braves and Yankees battle for Team of the Decade honors in the 90s.

What does it take for net work baseball experts -- experienced experts, no less -- to sensibly speak baseball? In the bottom of the first of last night's Game 2 Fox telecast, "The Home Depot Tools To Victory" graphic appeared.

Mike Flanagan and Steve Carlton did it first in 1983, representing the Orioles and Phillies, respectively.

Tony DeMacio's storied career as a scout reached its first milestone during the summer of 1984, when with his first signing he provided the Braves a young left-hander from Billerica, Mass., named Tom Glavine.

Given the centrality of health-care in the current political debates and the key role injuries played in the New York Mets logging yet another disappointing year into the history books, assessing the condition of the Mets heading into 2010 in terms of diagnosis is only appropriate.A A Similar to the 2003 Mets, who came into the season with a core ...

Thursday 15 Oct 2009 Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 07:20AM MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com -ATLANTA Atlanta Braves Executive Vice President and General Manager Frank Wren today announced the appointment of Tony DeMacio as the Club's new Director of Scouting.

Welcome to the best time of the baseball year. There's nothing better than the league championship series.

Second in an occasional series of analyses of the Braves' 2009 campaign, with an eye toward 2010.

The celebration began somewhere beyond amazing, somewhere on the far side of impossible.

Jair Jurrjens fell short of his goal to notch a 15-win season. But the strong finish to his impressive season gave the Braves' pitcher the satisfaction of being named the National League's Pitcher of the Month for September.

If you're trying to place blame on when the Braves blew their shot at making the playoffs, it wasn't when Matt Diaz was caught off base trying to score against the Florida Marlins.

Portrait of a reliever: Firpo Marberry, 1925 by Brandon Isleib September 24, 2009 It's been a wonderful year for historyish baseballish types like myself.

Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox announced Wednesday that he will retire following next season.

Bobby Cox had the pleasure of utilizing some of the most formidable starting rotations the game has seen, and now as he heads toward the end of his storied managerial career, he once again finds himself with a rotation that is arguably deeper than the ones that included Greg Maddux, John Smoltz and Tom Glavine.

Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX.