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While baseball fans continue to decry umpires after the obvious botched call in Wednesday's Oakland Athletics-Cleveland Indians game, MLB released a statement Thursday that will do absolutely nothing to appease people who want the ruling corrected or who are calling for better replay procedures.

In brief: The call was wrong, but we're sticking with it. 'Cause, hey, umps aren't perfect.

[Also: Double or HR? Botched call helps Indians steal victory from A’s]

Here's what Joe Torre (hey, you know him), MLB's executive vice president for baseball operations, said about the incident:

While the 2013 baseball season hasn't been too kind to the Los Angeles Angels, pitcher C.J. Wilson seems to be doing pretty all right lately. He's in a shampoo commercial, made that cooler-than-everything foul ball catch on Sunday and he won his first race in March. He's a big car-racing dude, you know.

Oh, and he got engaged to smokin' hot Brazilian supermodel Lisalla Montenegro on Wednesday. That's probably worth bragging about. Here she is sniffing his hair.

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Yes, I know what you want. So here's Montenegro doing her model thing:

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OK, so the illustration sort of looks like the Wicked Witch of the West tangling with Don Fanucci in "Godfather Part II." It's a much better pitching matchup than that, however, at least in theory. And much more rare, too. Not in 14 years have reigning Cy Young Award winners faced each other's teams, when Tom Glavine of the Braves beat Roger Clemens of the Yankees.

Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times explains further:

For just the third time since Cy Young Awards were given to winners in each league starting in 1969, the two reigning winners will meet [Thursday] night, with Rays LHP David Price, who is 1-3, 6.25, taking on former Mets/now Blue Jays RHP R.A. Dickey, who is 2-5, 5.36.

Glavine and Clemens weren't exactly tearing it up in July '99 when they met.

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Have a baseball road trip coming up? Well, in a bid to help you with your upcoming journeys, Big League Stew has solicited the help of the locals. Over the next month or so, we'll be hitting up our usual guest blogger crew to feature 10 tips for enjoying each of the 30 ballparks like the locals do. Have a suggestion in addition to the ones listed here? Make sure to list it in the comments below.

Up next is our good friend Chris Sedenka, a sports talk radio host in New England and the guy who covers the Red Sox for the Yahoo! Contributor Network. He's here to guide you through a trip to one of the most stories parks in baseball history.

Fenway Park can be described in one word … classic. The ballpark is in its 101st year of existence and still has the charm it had back in the early days. The neighborhood feel is a refreshing change from newer stadiums that are full of bells and whistles. Fenway Park is a basic stadium where the history is its most attractive feature.

So how do you best enjoy a trip back in time? Here are 10 tips before you set out ...

1. Transportation: Here’s a hint…DON’T DRIVE! Fenway Park is a city stadium and it's 101 years old. This means it wasn’t built for 30,000 spectators to all show up in vehicles. The chance of finding an adequate parking space in Fenway or Kenmore Square is about the same as winning the lottery. Sure, there are a few parking lots if you get there early enough or want to spend a ridiculous amount of money. There is even some street parking around the Boston University area, but it’s just not worth the hassle. There is public transportation for a reason. Here’s a tip. Take the Kenmore stop. Sounds confusing, but Kenmore is actually much closer to the park than the actual Fenway subway stop.

To say the New York Yankees had a strange night on Wednesday would be an understatement.

It started with manager Joe Girardi penciling his pitcher, David Phelps, into the eighth spot in his batting order despite the fact that Phelps had never taken an at-bat in six professional seasons. Girardi would later explain that his reasoning behind the move was to break up his string of left-handed hitters in case he needed to use pinch-hitter Travis Hafner in the pitcher's spot ahead of Brett Gardner and Robinson Cano.

It makes sense, but as is often the case in baseball, things didn't go exactly as Girardi planned. Instead of hitting Hafner in the pitcher's spot, he ended using the left-handed slugger in place of third baseman Chris Nelson as a bases loaded situation presented itself in the ninth inning.

Hafner would strike out swinging on a 3-2 pitch, leaving it up to another pinch-hitter, Brennan Boesch, to drive home the go-ahead run. Boesch did just that, coming through with an infield single to score Wells. So the series of pinch-hitters ending up working out, but they also opened up a whole new can of worms for Girardi. With Nelson now out of the game and his bench exhausted of options, he needed to turn to an unlikely candidate to man the hot corner.

(USA Today)The people have spoken and the Washington Nationals have listened to their dissatisfied cries regarding the team's new rainout ticket policy.

As we learned following Tuesday night's rainout against the Detroit Tigers, the team had originally reaffirmed its new position by notifying fans holding tickets that they would not be able to exchange them for an equal or lesser priced ticket to a future game of their choosing, based on availability of course, as had been the case in the past. Instead, fans were told the tickets would only be honored for the makeup game, which is scheduled for 4:05 p.m. local time on Thursday.

Naturally, this creates quite an inconvenience for fans who work day jobs and for those who have to travel a great distance to attend. The flawed policy led to a public backlash that became so strong on Wednesday, the team was left with no choice but to overturn it and go back to the more conventional — and convenient — policy of years past.

From The Washington Post's Adam Kilgore:

“We heard our fans,” Nationals COO Andrew Feffer said. “I think it’s always important from a customer service standpoint to listen. We responded quickly and decisively. We said, if our fans want that option for a future game, if it’s that important to them, we certainly want to provide that.”

(USA Today)The Juice returns for season No. 6! It's almost eligible for free-agency! Stop by daily for news from the action, along with great photos, stats, video highlights and more.

Before fans could settle into their seats at Fenway Park, the Minnesota Twins third worst offense in the American League in terms of runs scored had already put a four spot on the board against Allen Webster.

A stunning development to be sure, and a nearly perfect start for Ron Gardenhire's squad, but the question then became: Would a game's worth of offense in one inning hold up for all nine? The answer was a resounding "no" as Boston quickly countered with five runs in their half thanks largely to Jonny Gomes' grand slam off Pedro Hernandez.

To the Twins' credit, they didn't allow Boston's response to rattle them. In fact, they came back with an even better inning, scoring seven more times in the second with Pedro Florimon's home run starting the rally and his two-run double capping it off.

The three RBIs were enough to set a new career-high for the 26-year-old shortstop. When all was said and done, the Twins also set seasons highs in runs, winning it 15-8, and hits (20).

''We'll be asking for a little BP rain tomorrow,'' joked Twins manager Ron Gardenhire. ''It was a crazy night. The ball was flying early. Both pitchers, their young guy, we didn't let him breathe, and they did that to our pitcher, too.''

As for Boston, despite 12 hits of their own, David Ortiz went 0 for 5, snapping his 27-game hitting streak dating back to last season.

Here we go again.

Even with the aid of instant replay, Angel Hernandez and his crew of umpires managed to botch the most important call in the A's-Indians game at Progressive Field on Wednesday night, which ultimately resulted in the Indians holding on to their precarious 4-3 lead for a stunning and controversial victory.

[Also: J.A. Happ speaks publicly for first time since head injury]

Here's what happened: Batting against Cleveland closer Chris Perez with two outs in the ninth inning, Adam Rosales launched what appeared to be a game-tying home run that bounced off the railing just beyond the high left field wall before caroming back onto the field. Admittedly, it was difficult to tell for sure at first look whether or not the ball cleared the wall. The umpires — playing it safe or just flat out missing what happened — ruled it to be in play which meant Rosales had to settle for a double. But it didn't seem like all that important a ruling with the inevitable review pending.

Boy would that change quickly.

Despite television replays leaving absolutely no doubt that the baseball struck the railing and changed direction on its way back to the field, the umpires stuck to their original ruling with the following reason being cited: