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Date	Player	News
5/17/2008	Vladimir Guerrero, RF (LAA)	Guerrero drove in two runs for the host Angels in their 4-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday. Analysis: Guerrero has hit .283 (13-for-46) with three doubles, a triple, a homer and eight RBIs over his last 12 games. This season, he is batting .264 with four homers and 22 RBIs.
5/17/2008	Hiroki Kuroda, SP (LAD)	Kuroda gave up four runs - three earned - and seven hits over 6 1-3 innings in the visiting Dodgers' 4-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Friday. Analysis: Kuroda, who hadn't received a decision in any of his last four starts, fell to 1-3 with a 3.67 ERA in nine starts overall this season.
5/17/2008	Andre Ethier, RF (LAD)	Ethier homered and drove in two runs for the visiting Dodgers in their 4-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels. Analysis: Ethier, who is hitting .298 with four homers and 17 RBIs this season, has batted .333 (6-for-18) in his last five games.
5/17/2008	Magglio Ordonez, RF (Det)	Ordonez went 3-for-4 with a run in the visiting Tigers' 4-3 loss to Arizona on Friday. Analysis: Ordonez has at least one hit in seven of his last eight games, a span in which he has batted .424 (14-for-33) with three RBIs. This season, he is hitting .321 with six homers and 26 RBIs.
5/17/2008	Ubaldo Jimenez, SP (Col)	Jimenez turned in a solid outing, but the host Rockies dropped a sixth straight on Friday, 4-2 to Minnesota. Analysis: Jimenez hasn't won since April 8, but struck out five and walked one in seven innings. He is just 1-4 with a 5.29 ERA in nine starts this season.
5/17/2008	Clint Barmes, 2B (Col)	Barmes was a home run shy of hitting for the cycle, but his big night was wasted as the Rockies lost their sixth straight, 4-2, to the Minnesota Twins on Friday. Analysis: Barmes has hit safely in nine of his last 10 games - a stretch in which he has hit .531 (17-for-32) with four doubles, a triple and four RBIs. Overall, he is batting .355 with two homers and 14 RBIs in 33 games this season.
5/17/2008	Nick Blackburn, RP (Min)	Blackburn won his second straight start on Friday, when the visiting Twins beat Colorado, 4-2. Analysis: Blackburn, who was coming off a win over Boston on Sunday, gave up two runs and six hits in seven innings. He is 4-2 with a 3.77 ERA in nine starts this season.
5/17/2008	Adam Everett, SS (Min)	Everett drove in two runs for the visiting Twins in their 4-2 win over Colorado on Friday. Analysis: Everett hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning and again in the eighth. But he has gone 0-for-6 with a walk over his last three games, and is hitting .183 (11-for-60) with a homer and eight RBIs in 20 games this season.
5/17/2008	Braden Looper, SP (StL)	Looper gave up three runs and a season high-tying 10 hits in six innings as the Cardinals fell, 3-1, to Tampa Bay on Friday in the opener of an interleague series. Analysis: Looper, who also yielded 10 hits in a win at Colorado on May 6, has dropped his last two starts to fall to 5-3 with a 4.25 ERA in nine starts this season.
5/17/2008	Michael Aubrey, (Cle)	The Cleveland Indians called up Michael Aubrey from Triple-A Buffalo on Saturday to make his big-league debut. Analysis: Aubrey was Cleveland's first-round pick in the June 2003 draft. He started the season at Double-A Akron, hitting .277 with a pair of homers in 24 games. The Indians moved him up to Triple-A on May 2, and he batted .341 in 11 games. To make room for him on the roster, Cleveland sent left-handed starter Jeremy Sowers back to Buffalo.
5/17/2008	Jeremy Sowers, SP (Cle)	The Cleveland Indians sent left-handed starter Jeremy Sowers back to Triple-A Buffalo on Saturday and called up infielder Michael Aubrey to make his big-league debut. Analysis: Sowers was promoted from Buffalo to make a spot start Friday night, and he didn't receive a decision after giving up three runs in five innings of a 4-3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. Sowers does not have a decision, but has a 5.23 ERA in two starts for Cleveland this season.
5/17/2008	Chris Duncan, LF (StL)	Duncan went 2-for-4 with a homer on Friday, but the host Cardinals fell, 3-1, to Tampa Bay in the opener of the teams' interleague series. Analysis: Duncan's fourth homer with one out in the eighth was the only damage against Rays starter Andy Sonnanstine. The first baseman is 7-for-19 (.368) with two homers and six RBIs in his last six games, but is hitting .268 with four homers and 12 RBIs overall this season.
5/17/2008	Andy Sonnanstine, SP (TB)	Sonnanstine gave up just one run and eight hits over eight innings on Friday as the visiting Rays beat St. Louis, 3-1, in the opener of their weekend interleague series. Analysis: Sonnanstine improved to 5-0 with a 2.98 ERA over his last six starts, and is 6-1 with a 4.53 ERA in nine starts overall. On Friday, Sonnanstine also walked none and struck out four, but he was also 2-for-3 for his second career two-hit performance.
5/17/2008	Jason Bartlett, SS (TB)	Bartlett went 2-for-4 on Friday as the visiting Rays beat St. Louis, 3-1, in the opener of their interleague series. Analysis: Bartlett was back in the lineup after missing Thursday's game because his wife had a complication with her pregnancy. The couple is expecting their first child, a boy, on July 6, according to the Rays' official Web site. Bartlett is hitting .245 with eight RBIs in 39 games this season - his first with Tampa Bay after spending the previous four with Minnesota.
5/17/2008	Akinori Iwamura, 2B (TB)	Iwamura went 3-for-4 with an RBI on Friday as the visiting Rays beat St. Louis, 3-1, in the opener of their interleague series. Analysis: Iwamura has at least a hit in 13 of 14 games, batting .403 (25-for-62) with two homers and eight RBIs in that stretch. Overall, he is hitting .275 with three homers and 14 RBIs.
5/17/2008	Alex Rodriguez, 3B (NYY)	Rodriguez said he "felt good" after going 1-for-4 with a solo homer in his first extended spring training game on Saturday - his first game since being sidelined by a strained right quadriceps April 28. Analysis: Rodriguez batted five times against David Price, taken first overall in last year's amateur draft by the Tampa Bay Rays. He hit a long opposite-field homer to right on a 95 mph fastball, walked once, flew out and struck out twice. Rodriguez is scheduled to take part in a simulated game Sunday and play in another extended spring game Monday. Baring any setbacks, he will rejoin the Yankees on Tuesday.
5/17/2008	Santiago Casilla, RP (Oak)	The A's recalled infielder Gregorio Petit from Triple-A Sacramento prior to the game and Casilla on the 15-day DL with soreness of his right elbow. Analysis: Casilla was 2-0 with a save and 0.93 ERA in 21 appearances.
5/17/2008	Gregorio Petit, (Oak)	The A's recalled Petit from Triple-A Sacramento prior to the game and placed RHP Santiago Casilla on the 15-day DL with soreness of his right elbow. Analysis: Petit hit .304 in 37 games at Sacramento.
5/17/2008	Kevin Mench, LF (Tor)	Mench left the game in the fourth inning because of a bruised right knee Friday. Analysis: The team is listing him as day-to-day.
5/17/2008	Jayson Werth, RF (Phi)	Werth homered in his first three at-bats and tied a Philadelphia Phillies record with eight RBIs in a 10-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night. Analysis: Werth became the 18th Phillies player to record three homers in a game. Ryan Howard was the last to hit three - on Sept. 3, 2006, against Atlanta in the first game of a doubleheader. The eight RBIs tied a franchise record held by four players, most recently by Mike Schmidt in a 10-inning game at Chicago on April 17, 1976. The others are Kitty Bransfeld (1910), Gavvy Cravath (1915) and Willie Jones (1958).

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