Since Sunday, Ned Yost has been ejected from three games and suspended for another while his floundering team has all but played itself out of the National League Central race.
Mr. Nuxhall started pitching for the 1944 Reds at 15 and went on to spend more than half a century with Cincinnati as a pitcher and broadcaster.
A day after Indians pitcher Paul Byrd’s name emerged as a recipient of shipments of human growth hormone, baseball’s investigator of performance-enhancing drugs said he played no role in releasing the information. George J. Mitchell, who is leading the investigation on behalf of baseball and is expected to issue his report shortly after the World Series, said in a written statement that he and his investigators had no knowledge of Byrd’s ties to the substances.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3 (AP) Walt Jocketty is out after 13 seasons as the general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, a year after they won the World Series for the first time since 1982.
Since Sunday, Ned Yost has been ejected from three games and suspended for another while his floundering team has all but played itself out of the National League Central race.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3 (AP) Walt Jocketty is out after 13 seasons as the general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, a year after they won the World Series for the first time since 1982.
Since Sunday, Ned Yost has been ejected from three games and suspended for another while his floundering team has all but played itself out of the National League Central race.
Rick Ankiel scored from second base on the Philadelphia Phillies’ second error at first base in the 10th inning, giving the host Cardinals a 7-6 win Sunday.
The sluggers in the Angels’ outfield gave Jon Garland quite a welcome. Vladimir Guerrero and Garret Anderson had six hits and five runs batted between them, and Garland breezed through his first start for Los Angeles with a 9-1 victory over the host Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night.
The competition between Mike Pelfrey and Orlando Hernández gained some clarity after Hernández, in his spring debut, struggled with his revised mechanics.