(Getty Images)Saturday is the one-month anniversary of that big Los Angeles Dodgers-San Diego Padres brawl, the one in which Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke broke his collarbone crashing into Carlos Quentin.

Greinke was supposed to be out eight weeks after surgery. But Friday, surprisingly, he's pitching for the Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. If all goes well, Greinke could be back with the Dodgers next week.

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Here's more from Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times:

And the plot thickens. Veteran baseball analyst Peter Gammons went on The Dan Patrick Show on Friday and made a bold claim: Angel Hernandez, the umpire who refused to overturn the botched home-run call in Wednesday's Indians-A's game, did so as an objection to the use of instant replay.

Much has been made since the start of this debacle about baseball's old school who don't want to embrace technology, who'd rather let the human element prevail, as flawed as it might be. Those people are out there, for sure, so it's not entirely surprising to hear this alleged of an umpire.

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The late Ted Williams used to say that his vision was so sharp, he could pick out the stitches on a baseball as it was pitched to him. But how would his eyes do scanning for pink stitches, instead of the 108 traditional red ones?

For the cause of breast cancer awareness, major leaguers this Sunday will get a chance to play ball with pink stitches and markings. Since the 2006 season, ballplayers (many, not all) have used pink bats on Mother's Day to get with the MLB's program, which originally was borrowed from NHL hockey players. Some ballplayers have used pink batting gloves. Pink fielding gloves might not be far behind. How about pink caps? MLB certainly has the apparatus to sell it all.

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As for the baseballs: Not everyone can see as well as Ted Williams could, so we should be curious if they have a harder time than usual picking up a visual. Most of the pelota will still be white, of course, but you figure that many players can at least make out the reddish blur whizzing toward them. Only this time, it's not so red.

Prediction: Most of these guys will lose points on their ERA. If it helps cancer survivors, so be it.

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The full quote from Toronto Blue Jays right-hander R.A. Dickey, via the Toronto Star, goes like this:

“It’s just sad, because you pour your heart and soul into the game and it doesn’t always end up in a win. We’re playing hard. We’re not maybe playing the smartest baseball, but we’re playing hard as crud.”

Dickey, often a considerate sort, is being PG-rated by using "crud" instead of "hell" or a worse expletive. Regardless, "Hard as crud" ought to become a rallying cry/T-shirt marketing slogan immediately.

There's playing hard as crud, and there's also playing "like crud," which the Jays are, as evidenced by a 13-23 record.

Dickey's lamentations came after a tough-to-swallow 5-4 loss in 10 innings at Tampa Bay on Sunday.

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A pair of walk-off wins Thursday night showed us two very different ways to win a baseball game. The New York Mets got a pinch-hit single from Mike Baxter to top the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2. Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in 10 innings with a literal walk-off — the Blue Jays walked in the winning run.

We'll start with the Mets and Baxter, who is in the hero role for the second time this week. He got the game-winning hit Tuesday night in that 1-0 victory that most people will remember for Matt Harvey being spectacular. This time around, Baxter came up to hit with Marlon Byrd at second base after an inning-starting single followed by a sacrifice. Facing Pirates closer Jason Grilli, Baxter lined a base hit into center. He then was treated to a hero's huddle and a pie to the face.

At the Rays/Jays game, the matchup of the two reigning Cy Young winners ended in the least Cy Young fashion possible: Brad Lincoln walked Ryan Roberts to load the bases in the tenth, then gave Luke Scott a free pass to force in the winning run. Ouch.

This brings up an interesting question: Can you celebrate a walk-off walk like a walk-off hit? A win is a win, sure, but the ceremonial mobbing seems a bit odd when the other team just hands you the winning run. The Rays did celebrate some, but not like they would have in different circumstances.

No dispute, just destruction: Things were a lot calmer in Cleveland on Thursday. There was no close-call, no controversy, just a walloping of the Oakland Athletics by the Cleveland Indians. The Indians won 9-2, completing a four-game sweep of the A's and continuing a hot streak in which they've won 10 of 11 games.

The story for the Indians was

A day after a group of umpires botched a home-run ruling, another group of umpires let the Houston Astros make an obviously illegal pitching change. The opposing Los Angeles Angels played the rest of the game under protest, which doesn't really matter now because the Angels won the game 6-5.

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What does matter, though: The umpires blatantly went against the rule book and after the game wouldn't comment on it.

Here's the play-by-play: Astros manager Bo Porter called lefty Wesley Wright out of the bullpen to replace Paul Clemens in the seventh inning. The Angels countered by pinch-hitting for their left-handed batter with a right-hander. Wright didn't throw a pitch before Porter came back out and called for a right-handed reliever.

(USA Today)The Cleveland Indians have the lowest average attendance in baseball. Lower, even, than the Miami Marlins, who most people would assume own that dishonor. In fact, Miami is only fifth worst.

Cleveland's average of 14,205 makes places like Miami, Tampa Bay and Kansas City look somewhat decent. The Royals, in fact, are second worst in baseball and average 4,000 more per game than the Indians.

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On Monday and Tuesday, the Indians drew 9,514 and 9,474 with the Oakland Athletics in town. This was part of the Indians' current hot streak, in which they've won 10 out of 11 games. And relief pitcher Frank Herrmann's frustration made him try something. Herrmann, who is out for the season after Tommy John surgery, took to Twitter:

If most baseball teams held a social media contest looking for an "ultimate fan" to win an all-expense paid trip to New York City, fans would falling all over themselves to win. A weekend's worth of games? A tour of the MLB Fan Cave? That's a heck of a prize. But as we know, the Miami Marlins aren't most teams. They're an actual punchline in motion.

So when the Marlins started this "ultimate fan" contest, things got ugly ... or amusing, depending on your perspective. All people have to do is post a picture on Instagram that shows how much they love the team, with the hashtag #MarlinsFanCave. But even that opens the team to jabs from "fans."

These are actual responses to the Facebook post announcing the contest: