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The Sports Xchange By Bucky Dent, The Sports Xchange Royals 4, Cardinals 2 ST. LOUIS -- Kansas City finally found a way to break its eight-game losing streak Thursday night and early Friday morning: Hit for about five hours in the top of the ninth...

The Sports Xchange By Bucky Dent, The Sports Xchange Royals survive marathon delay, end losing streak ST. LOUIS -- As the rain fell in sheets and the Busch Stadium field essentially became a sponge, the Kansas City Royals could only sit and fret that...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH Daniel Descalso, replaced by Matt Carpenter at second base this season, was hitting .167 in limited playing time on May 8. Over the next three weeks, with Descalso getting more...

The Sports Xchange Cards' prospect Wacha to start Thursday St. Louis Cardinals pitching prospect Michael Wacha will make his major-league debut Thursday, less than a year from being selected 19th overall in the draft. The 21-year-old will face the...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH The Cardinals, largely because of injuries, already have had seven rookie pitchers on their roster this season and will have an eighth when right-hander Michael Wacha, their top...

Part 2 : continues.... MLB Note - Cincinnati Reds Choo, Shin-Soo OF Shin-Soo Choo was 1-for-3 Thursday. In the four games this week against Cleveland, the team for which he played the last seven years, Choo was 6-for-14 (.429) with a double, a home...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH From utility player to All-Star in one season? That's what could happen to Cardinals second baseman Matt Carpenter, who fast was erasing his reputation as one of the best-kept...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH Right-handed reliever Mitchell Boggs, the closer at the start of the season, has been optioned to the minors for the second time this season. But has it come time to trade Boggs,...

The Sports Xchange By Rob Rains, The Sports Xchange Cardinals' pitchers sparkle in doubleheader sweep ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Cardinals began June the same way they played the first two months of the season -- getting dominant starting pitching....

The Sports Xchange MLB Roundup: Orthopedic surgeon Yocum dies of cancer Lewis Yocum, an renowned orthopedic surgeon admired for his skill in performing the Tommy John elbow ligament replacement procedure that saved the careers of many baseball players,...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH The Cardinals, who have had five rookie pitchers join the team this season, mostly because of injuries, have developed an interesting combination between middle-innings man Seth...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH Right hander Adam Wainwright has an interesting, and nearly impossible to attain, goal. He wants to have more wins than walks. Through his first 11 starts, Wainwright recorded...