THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009
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Mets achieve victory despite recent injuries
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NEW YORK — Tim Redding pitched into the eighth inning for his first win with the Mets and substitute setup man Brian Stokes got Albert Pujols to ground into a crucial double play, leading New York past the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 on Monday night.
Daniel Murphy homered and Omir Santos went 4 for 4 in an uplifting victory for the Mets, hours after they received another dose of disheartening news. All-Star center fielder Carlos Beltran went on the 15-day disabled list with a bone bruise on his right knee, a huge blow to a team already decimated by key injuries.
Before the game, New York manager Jerry Manuel said he would keep a close eye on the spirit of his squad, also missing star shortstop Jose Reyes, slugging first baseman Carlos Delgado and three important pitchers.
BRAVES 2,CUBS0
ATLANTA — Javier Vazquez and three Atlanta relievers combined to shut out the Cubs.
In a makeup game caused by a June 4 rainout, the Braves won a series for the first time since completing a three-game sweep of Toronto on May 24. The Braves had gone 0-5-3 in their last eight series. Atlanta and Chicago split the first two games of the original series June 2-3.
Atlanta, which snapped a two-game slide, ended the Cubs' fourgame winning streak.
Vazquez (5-6) gave up nine hits and two walks with five strikeouts. The right-hander's victory snapped a five-start streak in which he went 0-3 despite a 3.44 ERA.
Rafael Soriano, who gave up a single and a walk, struck out the side for his sixth save in seven chances.
Chipper jones' sacrifice fly in the seventh inning chased Ryan Dempster (4-5).
ATHLETICS 5, GIANTS 1
OAKLAND, Calif. — Bobby Crosby drove in three runs, rookie Trevor Cahill won his third straight decision and the Athletics ended a five-game losing streak in the Bay Bridge Series with a victory over the Giants.
Travis Ishikawa hit a solo home run in the second to put San Francisco ahead but that's all the offense the Giants could muster. Orlando Cabrera doubled in a run in the fourth for Oakland to tie the game at 1, then Ryan Sweeney's RBI groundout two batters later gave the As the lead.
Crosby hit a two-run double in the sixth and had an eighth-inning RBI groundout in Oakland's third win in four games.
Reliever Brad Ziegler pitched two perfect innings for his sixth save in seven chances.
ROCKIES 11, ANGELS 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Brad Hawpe celebrated his 30th birthday with a three-run homer, Seth Smith also went deep and the Rockies beat the Angels for their 17th victory in 18 games and club-record ninth straight on the road.
The Angels tied a club record with six wild pitches — all with Jeff Napoli behind the plate. One was by Rafael Rodriguez in the seventh inning that allowed Troy Tulowitzki to score, one by Jason Bulger in the ninth that enabled Ian Stewart to come home. The Halos also had six wild pitches on April 13, 1991 at Minnesota.
Aaron Cook (7-3) allowed a run and three hits over seven innings and struck out four, helping send 30-year-old rookie Matt Palmer to his first loss of the season.
BY RONALD BLUM Associated Press
NEW YORK - Donald Fehr's time in charge of the players' association will be remembered for a strike that canceled the World Series, explosive growth in salaries and eventually 14 years of labor peace.
Fehr announces retirement from the players' association
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To his detractors, the biggest mark was that he presided over a go-slow approach to steroids.
Fehr recommends that he be succeeded by union general counsel Michael Weiner, the No. 3 official and his longtime heir apparent. The move is subject to approval by the union's executive board and possible ratification by all players.
powerful union no later than the end of March, ending a reign that began in December 1983.
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labor contract and settled the cases for $280 million.
Fehr, who turns 61 next month, said Monday he would leave the
Weiner has been with the players' association since September 1988 and has been its general counsel since February 2004.
Baseball's average salary was $289,000 when he took over nearly 26 years ago, and it rose to $2.9 million by last year. Although players fended off management's repeated attempts to obtain a salary cap, he has been criticized by some for not agreeing to drug testing until 2002.
Fehr also presided over a 32-day lockout in 1990 and a $7\frac{1}{2}$-month strike in 1994-95 that wiped out the World Series for the first time in 90 years. That stoppage ended only when the National Labor Relations Board, at the union's behest, obtained an injunction to restore work rules from U.S. District Judge Sonia Sotomayor, nominated last month by President Barack Obama for the Supreme Court.
"I have no hesitancy in recommending to the players that he be given the opportunity to do this job," Fehr said.
"You hear a lot of people talk about how he's as much to blame for steroids as anybody. You know what, nobody's to blame. It just happened," the San Francisco Giants' Rich Aurilia said. "In my mind his legacy should be the positive changes he brought to the game."
"After a while, it wears you down," Fehr said. "I think it will be good for everybody."
Fehr led players through a two-day strike in 1985, then became executive director on a full-time basis the following January. His early years were defined by collusion. The union successfully charged management with conspiring against free agents following the 1985, 1986 and 1987 seasons in violation of the
The 47-year-old Weiner will lead negotiations for the next contract; the current labor agreement expires in December 2011.
Fehr headed negotiations for five labor contracts plus a divisive August 2002 drug agreement that was revised three times under congressional pressure. He decided he didn't want to negotiate the next labor contract in two years and wanted to give Weiner lead time.