Colby Rasmus sounded like he was reading from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" when asked to describe what it was like to step into the batter's box against Cory Rasmus on Monday.

"It was awesome and terrible at the same time," he said of facing his kid brother.

Ah, yes. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

The best because it meant that both players has made it as major leaguers (and how cool is that?), but it also the worst because one Rasmus had to win and the other had to lose. That's tough, especially with their parents (Tony, the dad, and Robin, the mom) and another brother (Cyle) attending in person at Toronto's Rogers Centre. It's a much different dynamic than the Upton brothers are experiencing as teammates this season, isn't it?

Colby Rasmus will never have such mixed feelings about a double to left field again.

In the majors for just 10 days, Cory Rasmus had a rough relief outing for the Atlanta Braves, also allowing a three-run home run to Edwin Encarnacion in a 9-3 loss to the Blue Jays. Having a brother allow a home run to a teammate also gave Colby (who is a year older than Cory), mixed emotions. Via the National Post:

(Will Byington)

The Chicago Cubs were playing pretend on Tuesday, staging Wrigley Field to give everybody an idea what the ballpark would look like with a 6,000 square ft. jumbotron scoreboard behind the iconic bleachers. Will Byington, a Wrigleyville resident, snapped these artsy photos of a scoreboard mockup in left field (from Waveland Ave.) and bigger advertising signage in right (from Sheffield Ave.). Both are held in place by cranes and pulleys.

That's 12 "F's" in right field. What the "F"? Why, Cubs fans have been asking that for years. Perhaps Theo Epstein is giving away part of his big plan to reinvigorate the organization's offensive workings by maximizing the fielder's choice as a tactic.

The Cubs and the City of Chicago announced an agreement earlier this season to renovate 99-year-old Wrigley and build up the blocks next door for $500 million. The mockups are part of the process.

Paul Sullivan of the Chicago Tribune has local reaction:

The value and propriety of camouflage-themed uniforms worn across Major League Baseball remains a subject open for debate. But it's harder to disagree on this: That someone broadcasting a game probably should not refer to a broken bat the way Keith Hernandez of WPIX did Monday.

Hernandez lost himself mentally in describing the result of New York Mets slugger Daniel Murphy getting his bat sawed into pieces on a pitch by Phil Hughes of the Yankees in the first inning. As the country observed Memorial Day, Hernandez uttered this figure of speech:

"Well, folks. That is a dead soldier right there, folks, laying on that infield dirt."

The New York Times tried to get a comment from Hernandez.

Hernandez did not respond to a request for comment after the game, but a spokesman for SNY said: “We’ll address the matter with Keith. It was an honest mistake and a poor choice of words.”

Perhaps the poorest, given the context of the day's meaning.

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Darn them Yankees: If the 2013 Subway Series teaches us anything, it will be this: If you can't win by hitting it over Brett Gardner, then hit it in front of him. Daniel Murphy of the New York Mets, angered because Gardner denied him a home run with a leaping catch earlier, found peace with a line-drive RBI single to shallow center in the eighth. His hit produced the go-ahead run in a 2-1 victory at Citi Field on Sunday night against the dreaded New York Yankees.

"There was a lot of prayer that went on between the robbing of the home run and the next at-bat, mostly for peace, because I was fairly angry after he took that from us. ... I had to calm myself, and I had to ask for some help with that."

In the sixth, Gardner saved the Yankees' day — for the moment — by stealing what would have been Murphy's fifth homer. Gardner said the ball carried deeper than he anticipated. From the Associated Press:

Murphy sent a fly that Gardner tracked to the wall. He jumped in front of the 385-foot marker and caught the ball above the fence.

''I didn't think it was hit as good as it showed,'' Gardner said. ''I didn't realize it was going out.''

It's a good thing his glove realized it!

David Wright can't go wrong: Murphy coming through also probably made David Wright feel better about his night, which include a score-tying home run, a triple, a great play on defense and a big hug for at least one big Mets fan. (H/T: The Score)

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Orioles 6, Nationals 2: Baltimore's Jason Hammel strikes out eight over eight innings, allows eight hits. You wonder what would have happened if he went nine.

Reds 4, Indians 2: Cincy gets blotto because of Joey Votto's eighth-inning two-run homer into the grotto.

Twins 6, Brewers 3: After a second home run review in three days, it's like they don't believe it when Joe Mauer goes deep. Well, I believe in Mauer Pauer.

Rays 10, Marlins 6: Have a day, Kelly

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It's not often that someone in another sport says "We ought to handle this issue like the NHL does." Leave it to contrarian manager Dusty Baker of the Cincinnati Reds.

Baker, following a tiff between the Chicago Cubs and one of his pitchers, suggested that Major League Baseball use hockey's time-honored tactics when it comes to settling disputes on the field: Let the players fight.

In this case, Matt Garza of the Cubs and Johnny Cueto of the Reds. From C. Trent Rosecrans of Cincinnati.com:

Baker went one further: “Just put them in a room, let them box and let it be over with,” he added. “I always said this, let it be like hockey, let them fight, someone hits the ground and it’s over with. I’m serious about that.”

OK, it's not exactly like hockey, where they throw down the gloves before fighting, and get put inside of the room after the fight is over. But, as with video replay review, it might take some time to massage the system. Two things: Would players who fight have to sit out for two innings, or five? Also: Does the fighting strap attach at the jock strap?

The Cubs, particularly Garza, reacted angrily after Cueto buzzed David DeJesus with a fastball (way) over his head in the top of the sixth inning. The pitch appeared to "get away" from Cueto (that might have been part of his point) and sailed to the backstop without catcher Ryan Hanigan getting a mitt on it.

Umpire Bob Davidson warned Cueto, and both of the benches cleared but, as with most baseball fights, no punches (or kicks — this time, Johnny) were actually thrown.

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Mark DeRosa said that even though he might not know what his teammate from Japan is saying all of the time, Munenori Kawasaki sure can lift up the Toronto Blue Jays.

Not only did Kawasaki come through with a two-out, two-run, game-ending double Sunday to lift the Jays to a 6-5 victory against the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, but he also gave one of the more memorable postgame interviews — in any language — in major league history.

Encouraged by DeRosa to join him for an on-field chat on the Jays postgame broadcast, Kawasaki eagerly went on camera and happily introduced himself to the crowd that had gathered, also telling them where he was from in English. He then reached into a pocked and pulled out a phrase book to help him communicate.

"My teammates gave me an opportunity, so I wanted to do something about it."

Teammates then hit Kawasaki with a double-whammy of shaving cream pie and Gatorade dunk.

In addition to what he said on the video, Kawasaki later returned to this book of phrases for the media inside of the clubhouse. Via the Associated Press:

Apparently, all that was left for the Kansas City Royals was to release bees on their opponent. A swarm of nature's honey makers occupied the visitor's dugout at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday morning, preventing the Los Angeles Angeles from using it until about 90 minutes before the first pitch.

Not a whole lot happens in a major league dugout during that time, especially on a Sunday, so it amounted to just a minor inconvenience after a beekeeper went to work and collected our insect friends. No players, reportedly, got stung.

And, with the advent of Rally Bees, the Royals officially had run out of ideas.

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Good-bye, Cleveland: The Indians and Orioles have a li'l bullpen problem right now. Tribe closer Chris Perez led a ninth-inning meltdown, with Jacoby Ellsbury getting the game-ending two-run double in the ninth against Joe Smith for a 6-5 Red Sox victory, Boston's ninth in 12 games. Perez, charged with four runs allowed in the ninth, says he's got an issue with shoulder pain. It didn't allow him to complete the Ellsbury at-bat.

''On that last pitch to Ellsbury. It kind of pinched on me and sent a little pain down my arm. Then I tried to throw another pitch, and it just wasn't happening.''

That left Perez on the DL and Smith in a tough spot.

Lost his mojo: After being Mr. Dependable in 2012, Jim Johnson has been leaving the O's in tough spots lately, too. Ever since he converted 35 of 35 save opportunities, Johnson has been a meltdown machine. Munenori Kawasaki of the Blue Jays capped a rally with a two-run double in Toronto's four-run ninth that beat Baltimore 6-5. It was Johnson's fourth blown save in five chances.

Ike Davis unfrozen caveman first baseman: The Mets had a nice three-run comeback, but it was in the eighth inning, so that's why they were omitted from the headline. The Braves had won five straight at Citi Field and 15 of 18 against the Mets, but Davis broke a tie with an RBI single, one of the key moments in a 4-2 victory for New York. Davis had been batting .148 coming in, but after a chat with manager Terry Collins and GM Sandy Alderson says he's "1 for 1 with the new approach" to hitting.