Tom Gordon News

Charlie Manuel owns a glittery World Series ring that he can slide on and off his finger whenever he pleases, and for that, he knows who to thank.

YOU SEE BAD things arising. You see trouble on the way. You see the Phillies as a team still hung over from the intoxication of last year's championship, unable to hold teams down early or hold onto leads late.

When I was in my last season of Little League, I was my team's closer. I would trot over from first base or third, dig in my plastic spikes, and get to work.

Ryan Madson was back in the bullpen, back on the mound, back making pitches -- some good, others not so good.

The Eugene Emeralds future at Civic Stadium is murky, with only a guarantee of one more season at the Eugene landmark.

When Julio Franco announced his retirement last year at age 49, it gave new meaning to the phrase "all good things must come to an end." Baseball hasn't shown much love for its seniors recently.

Dee Gordon, former Avon Park standout and son of Tom "Flash" Gordon has been steadily making his mark in the minor leagues.

After a disastrous home stand in which their effort level was questioned, the Diamondbacks started their road trip with some team bonding as about 20 players gathered for dinner in Atlanta on Thursday night.

It's going to happen, that much seems certain. When Max Scherzer will pick up his first Major League win is less clear.

A.J. Hinch's debut homestand, a six-game minefield that adhered to Murphy's Law, is history.

Cubs aceCarlos Zambrano is out two or three weeks after being placed on the disabled list due to a strained left hamstring.

The Arizona Diamondbacks have placed reliever Tom Gordon on the 15-day disabled list because of a left hamstring strain and recalled right-hander Leo Rosales from Triple-A Reno.

GRAND CHUTE - Dee Gordon was playing for the visiting Great Lakes Loons, but he certainly felt as though he was back in familiar territory Thursday.

Tom Gordon of the Arizona Diamondbacks poses during photo day at the Diamondbacks spring training complex on February 19, 2009 in Tuscon, Arizona.

Tom Gordon has been eagerly awaiting being put on the active roster. That wait might come to an end on Monday, when the D-backs open a three-game series with the Cubs at Chase Field.

The Diamondbacks' bullpen is expected to get help Monday. Perhaps some leadership, too.

Twenty year-old Dee Gordon is beginning his pro baseball journey, after a successful career at Seminole Community College in Florida, and it's not hard to guess the major differences between his former stomping grounds, and his current one.

Sadness and grief keeps touching Major League Baseball. Heavy hearts have followed everywhere, including the Diamondbacks' clubhouse at Chase Field.

If you thought it was uncouth of the locals to boo the Fightins on opening night, then let Adam Eaton have it while he was getting his World Series ring , you would've been appalled by the vitriol one young lady hurled at Brad Lidge in the Fishtown taproom Murph's early last evening, as Lights Out was slamming the door on the Phils' first victory ...

JERRY CLOTHIER, a Phillies senior vice president who was part of the seven-person committee that designed the team's world championship rings, acknowledged he was a little taken aback when it was proposed that the baubles should contain 103 diamonds, one for every win the team had last year.