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Manager calls for replay
Rockie's Hurdle pushing for new ways to review calls
BY R.B. FALLSTROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle wants Major League Baseball to take another look at instant replay.
Twice in three games, Hurdle contends, wrong calls by umpires cost the Rockies home runs. He spoke the MLB office Tuesday to voice his concern.
"It's a very difficult call and my point of contention is it either is or is not a home run," Hurdle said. "I don't think that's an area where the umpires' discretion should be involved."
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the tiebreaking run in a 3-2 win over St. Louis.
On Saturday, the Rockies said a home run by Garrett Atkins was taken away by umpires who didn't see the ball well enough.
all use some form of instant replay. The issue has been raised in recent years by baseball officials, but never got very far — commissioner Bud Selig is among those against it.
"They make fewer mistakes than managers do and pitchers hanging breaking balls and hitters popping up balls down the middle."
Hurdle he has examples of other homers that have been
"You can't lose home runs," Hurdle said. "When they're hit, they need to be a homer. That's it, that's the bottom line."
On Monday night, what appeared to be a ninth-inning, goahead homer by Colorado's Troy Tulowitzki was instead ruled a double by second base umpire Bob Davidson, who said the ball went off the top of the wall in left-center field.
JOE TORRE
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Hurdle was ejected for the first time this season after a long argument. Tulowitzki eventually scored
lost the last few seasons. He believes they're often the result of more fan-friendly ball-parks with paying customers closer to the action.
human element on balls and strikes and plays at first," he said. "That's the hard question, where do you draw the line? But to say you don't draw it anywhere, I'm not so sure that's the right answer."
Hurdle said he's in favor of a system where challenges are limited to game-changing plays.
On Monday night at Yankee Stadium, the Seattle Mariners benefited from a missed call to beat New York 3-2. Pinch-runner Willie Bloomquist looked out on a steal attempt in the eighth innning, but was called safe by umpire Gerry
Davis and wound up scoring the tying run.
"We'll take it." Bloomquist said. "It's just a good thing there's no instant replay in baseball."
After seeing a replay, Davis admitted he missed the call.
"We're all human." Yankees manager Joe Torre said Tuesday.
Torre, however, was not sure about adding replay.
Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said he couldn't tell whether Tulowitzki's drive cleared the fence.
"How much longer you want this game to go on?" he said. "There's a difference in getting your money's worth and being able to get up in the morning."
"They had a meeting, nobody had a better view, the guy scored anyway, so what's the issue?" La Russa said.
La Russa is not in favor of instant replay.
"I think the umpires do a good job," he said. "They make fewer mistakes than managers do and pitchers hanging breaking balls and hitters popping up balls down the middle."
The Rockies ended up winning both of the games in question.
"When you have everybody in the ballpark saying it's a horner it's kind of tough to believe it's a double," Tulowitzki said. "Then again they're on my team, so I was a little confused."
"Since I scored and we won, it kind of evens things out a little bit," he said.
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St. Louis Cardinals' Adam Wainwright, left, pitches to Chicago Cubs' Aramis Ramirez, lower right, in the first inning of their baseball game Saturday, April 28, 2007, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Wainwright has a 2-2 record his season.
Wainwright struggling to adapt World Series hero experiencing growing pains as starter
BY R.B. FALLSTROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — Big-game pressure is nothing for Adam Wainwright, whose dramatic strikeouts accounted for the final outs in the World Series and NL championship series.
But his arm is still getting used to the work load after moving from the St. Louis Cardinals' bull-
"Throwing a baseball, it's the most unnatural thing to do in sports," Wainwright said. "It's just the wear and tear through 32 innings in spring training and now.
Wainwright won his last outing by battling for six innings with less than his best stuff, and has complained of soreness and a dead arm feeling in the early going.
According to the team's medical staff, what Wainwright has been going through is normal. Dr. George Paletta, the team physician, said Wainwright has also complained of back and leg soreness, but no specific problems.
"I think it's mainly just been an issue of stamina and him getting accustomed to being in the rotation." Paletta said. "He's had no X-rays, no studies, nothing."
"I don't want to make a big thing of it, it's just something that grabs you and you've got to take care of it."
"I Think it's mainly just been an issue of stamina and him getting accustomed to being in the rotation."
GEORGE PALETTA Cardinal's team physician
Wainwright served as a setup
man most of last year, his first full year in the major leagues,before stepping up as the closer when Jason Isringhausen under went hip surgery in September. In
the postseason he was 1-0 with four saves and worked 9/2 3 scoreless innings, freezing the New York Mets' Carlos Beltran for a called third strike in Game 7 of the NLCS and then fanning Brandon Inge of the Detroit Tigers in the Cardinals' Game 5 World Series clincher.
In spring training he had a minuscule 1.10 ERA, the first indication that the conversion would be a snap.
"It was easy because I was making it a lot easier for myself," Wainwright said. "I wasn't walking people and I was letting them hit
He got back with the plan in a 3-2 victory over the Astros on Friday, helping the Cardinals stop a five-game losing streak. The start carried extra motivation for St. Louis, which won for the first time in four games since the death of reliever Josh Hancock and also halted a five-game losing streak.
ground balls and getting them out as fast as possible"
Wainwright abandoned that philosophy for a few of his early-season starts, trying to overpower the hitters instead. In three starts after winning at Houston in his first major league start, he was 0-2 and allowed 17 earned runs and 27 hits in 15 2-3 innings.
"I wanted to at least put a solid outing out there," Wainwright said. "I'd been scrambling around a little bit and I wanted to at least turn out something to make him proud a little bit."
"He made more good pitches, and he's capable of pitching a game where he makes all good pitches," manager Tony La Russa said after his last start. "He's very special."
The early ups and downs have done nothing to diminish the promise of a pitcher the Cardinals acquired along with Jason Marquis in a deal for J.D. Drew in 2003.
Looper, a setup man last year and a former closer, has been more successful in the early going, leading a staff minus ace Chris Carpenter with a 4.2 record and a 2.66 ERA.
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Kansas City Royals pitcher Zack Greinke throws during the first inning of a baseball game with the Detroit Tigers Sunday in Kansas City. Mo. Greinke gave up three two-run home runs in the second inning.
Royals demote Greinke to bullpen Struggling pitcher moved out of starting rotation
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — Zack Greinke, who gave up three two-run homers in one inning Sunday in a loss to Detroit, has been dropped from the Kansas City Royals rotation and will work out of the bullpen.
Greinke, who left the club in spring training 2005 and received treatment for social anxiety, is 1-4 with a 5.71 ERA in seven starts. Opponents are hitting .338 against him.
"I just hope he can regain some confidence," Royals manager Buddy Bell said Tuesday. "He's hard to read. He's pitched away from contact at times and pitched behind in the
count. Sometimes, I can tell he's just not as comfortable as he needs to be.
That is basically why we're doing it."
bullpen."
Greinke was the sixth overall pick in the 2002 draft and he made his major league debut in 2004 at age 20. He led the American League with 17 losses in 2005.
Bell said he did not believe putting Greinke in the bullpen would hinder his development.
"I personally feel like he's going to end up starting at some point," Bell said. "Whether that's this year, next year or whenever, I don't know that. I think he's got too much ability, too many pitches that he can throw for strikes for him not to be in the rotation. I think you're always going to be tempted to put him in the rotation because of his stuff, but right now we just think its best for him and the team that he's in the
"He needs to be up here," Bell said. "There's not a whole lot more he can do down there. In saying that, we talk about all the pitches he can throw with command. There's a part of me that says maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to go down and throw innings, but right now I think it's better he learn up here and get the experience up here."
While Bell did not say who would take Greinke's spot in the rotation, the Royals have two right-handers, Scott Elarton and Luke Hudson, who are coming off shoulder injuries and have been rehabbing in the minors.
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