This and every weekday a.m. during baseball season, let's rise and shine together to recap the most recent diamond doings. Roll Call starts in New York City, from which the Twins will never, ever leave.

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Yankees 3, Twins 2 (10 inn.)

House that Ruth Built arrest: Three games, three victories in the last at-bat for the Yankees. Like a nightmare with no ending, the Twins couldn't even get a flight out of New York City on Sunday, so they're making them play in the Bronx again tonight. Or maybe it's just a wraparound series.

Staying power: On Friday, Brett Gardner(notes) had a Babe Ruth moment with a sick little girl in the hospital. She gave him a bracelet, he hit a home run — unbelievable, almost to the point of being actually unbelievable — and the Yankees scored three times in the ninth against Joe Nathan(notes). On Saturday, A-Rod homered in the 11th and got a shaving cream pie in the face, probably for the homer. On Sunday, Damon went deep in the 10th and the Twinkies

This and every weekday a.m. during baseball season, let's rise and shine together to recap the most recent diamond doings. Roll Call starts near the Rio Grande, that river twistin' through a dusty land where, if Matt Harrison(notes) really shines and shows you all he can, the Rangers are going to be tough to beat because we know they can hit.

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Rangers 3, Mariners 2

Salt, meet pepper: Good pitching and the Texas Rangers don't usually go together like PB & J, but with their relentless lineup, any kind of decent arms would make them formidable. Well, here comes lefty Matt Harrison, pitching another strong complete game, and there goes Chris Davis(notes) hitting a game-ending homer.

StRangers improve to 20-14. Pandemonium erupts at Arlington.

"We're waiting a little bit too long to get the bats going, but we got them going just in time," Ian Kinsler(notes) said. "The way Matt threw the ball, it was just incredible. We feel great for him."

Dial 'M' for Moose poop: The M's

This and every weekday a.m. during baseball season, let's rise and shine together to recap the most recent diamond doings. Roll Call starts inside the Air Bag in Minnesota, where a smoky Jim Leyland fumed and Joe Crede(notes) took the first step toward full Twinkization.

Game of the Day
Twins 14, Tigers 10 (13 inn.)

Joe cool: Crede seemed to win a game with a home run every other month when he played for the White Sox, so his game-ending slam against Brandon "If I'm Pitchin', I'm" Lyon seemed about right. The Twins tied the score in the 13th, then Crede's slam — the seventh in his career and second to end a game — finished a nearly five-hour baseball-a-thon of which Jim Leyland missed about half because he was kicked out for screaming at an umpire for... something... in the seventh.

"Did you see what happened?" Leyland told reporters. "Then write what you saw. I don't have to say a word. You write what you saw."

No idea what he's talking about. I was at the Cubs game. We'll move along,

This and every weekday a.m. during baseball season, let's rise and shine together to recap the most recent diamond doings. Roll Call starts either at AT&T Park, again, or at the Valley of Peace in China, home of Giants slugger Pablo Sandoval(notes) — AKA, Kung Fu Panda.

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Giants 9, Nationals 7

Da Bear: We're on a nickname kick lately here at the Stew. What to call Zack Greinke and Curtis Granderson, when their given names just won't do? Well, there's no need to search for a monicker for Sandoval, the hefty 22-year-old third baseman whom teammates call "Kung Fu Panda" because he bears (Get it? Bears?) a resemblance to animated film star Po, who charmed audiences of all ages last summer with his nimble martial artistry and rapier wit.

Pandamonium: After having an embarrassing baserunning moment in the seventh, Sandoval relied not on his legs but instead on what brung him, his bat, delivering a two-out, game-ending, three-run homer against non-closer Joe Beimel(notes) in the

Because baseball alone does not make the man, I frequent other kinds of Web sites. Before you are overtaken by nasty thoughts, I'm referring in this case to TheAtlantic.com, which has some of the smartest political and social commentary on the Interweb tubes.

They also have baseball, because one of the bloggers recently posted about the most bizarre baseball preview, recap and box score of all time.

It seems the Washington Post, on Sept. 1, 1926, ran an account of a sandlot game (probably played in Arlington, Va.) on Labor Day between a team called the Hebrew All-Stars and the Ku Klux Klan.

Yes, the KKK.

The Aryans reigned supreme, if you will, by a 4-0 score in a six-inning, rain-shortened affair. The Knights put all of their runs on the board in the first inning against the Stars' Sam Simon, before Ikey Dreyfus held them scoreless the rest of the way. The information seems to be authentic, as it would be an odd thing to make up (though we shouldn't put it past the Onion).

A Hebrew

This and every weekday a.m. during baseball season, let's rise and shine together to recap the most recent diamond doings. Roll Call starts high atop the pitcher's mound at AT&T Park, where Randy Johnson(notes) and another tall pitcher combined to make high history.

Game of the Day
Giants 11, Nationals 7

Height of their craft: Giants' giant Randy Johnson and Nationals right-hander Daniel Cabrera(notes) combined for the tallest starting pitching match-up in major league history.

Johnson, at 6-foot-10, and Cabrera, at 6-foot-9, measure a combined 163 inches, which beats by an inch the Cabrera-Mark Hendrickson(notes) duel of 2004, which nobody should otherwise remember.

How's the pitching up there?: For Big Unit Johnson, not bad. He struck out nine in recording career victory No. 298, though he lasted only five innings and allowed three home runs, including one of a pair hit by Ryan Zimmerman(notes), who continued his hitting streak to 29 games. Mr. Coffee still has yet to take notice in

Baseball analyst Lou Merloni(notes) told a whopper over the weekend.

Remember Lou, from the neighborhood, a former infielder with the Red Sox and others? Well, he's a broadcaster now, and on Comcast New England's "Baseball Show" on Saturday his brain dislodged a memory of Red Sox camp when a doctor stopped by to "educate" players how to safely use steroids.

Stopped by to ... wait, what?

"It was like teaching your teenage daughter about sex education," Merloni said. "The organization acknowledged that there were likely players using steroids and basically, 'If you're gonna use them this is how you use them so you don't abuse them.'"

Here's a full report by the Boston Globe on Merloni's revelations.

There's a dedicated cadre of folks out there (we are legion!) who suspect that Major League Baseball at least implicitly facilitated its players use of performance enhancing drugs until the U.S. Congress applied pressure.

But if Merloni's memories are accurate, this would be more than

This and every Monday morning, let's rise and shine together to review the weekend's top stories around the baseball-o-sphere. Roll Call starts at Chase Field in downtown Phoenix, but it doesn't matter which ballpark ATM Ryan Zimmerman(notes) uses these days — he's going to withdraw a hit.

Ryan, are you trying to seduce us with hits?
Zimmerman halfway to DiMaggio

A hit for you, Ry-an Zim-mer-man
Jesus Flores(notes) said it's four straight weeks (eeks, eeks, eeks)
Got streak today, Ry-an Zim-mer-man?
Joltin' Joe's still 28 away (hey, hey, hey ... hey, hey, hey)

From MLB.com: "Halfway, huh?," Zimmerman said. "There's a long way to go. I'm concentrating on [extending the streak] to 29. I really don't think about it or anything past the next game.

"It's so far away and so hard to do. I'm thrilled with what I've done so far. It's fun. It's something that I've never been through."

Zimmerman would tie DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, a record created in 1941, if he gets at least a hit in