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Major League Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland Indians 4 Oakland Athletics 3 Detroit Tigers 5 Texas Rangers 2 Minnesota Twins 8 Toronto Blue Jays 5 Chicago White Sox 5 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1 N-Y Yankees 8 Baltimore Orioles 6 (Game suspended, seven innings, rain) NATIONAL LEAGUE Florida Marlins 9 Pittsburgh Pirates 7 Los Angeles Dodgers 9 Arizona Diamondbacks 5 Philadelphia Phillies 8 Cincinnati Reds 7, 10 Innings Houston Astros 8 Colorado Rockies 4, 11 Innings St. Louis Cardinals at N-Y Mets (postponed, rain) Today's Baseball Probables with 2007 Records (All Times EDT) AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas Rangers (Jamey Wright 1-1) at Boston Red Sox (TimWakefield 7-8), 7:05 p.m. Oakland Athletics (Joe Kennedy 2-5) at New York Yankees (MikeMussina 3-5), 7:05 p.m. Minnesota Twins (Johan Santana 8-6) at Detroit Tigers (JustinVerlander 9-2), 7:05 p.m. Tampa Bay Devil Rays (Edwin Jackson 1-8) at Cleveland Indians(Jake Westbrook 1-3), 7:05 p.m. Los Angeles Angels (Kelvim Escobar 9-3) at Baltimore Orioles(Steve Trachsel 5-6), 7:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Jose Contreras 5-8) at Kansas City Royals(Brian Bannister 4-4), 8:10 p.m. Toronto Blue Jays (Dustin McGowan 4-3) at Seattle Mariners(Jarrod Washburn 6-6), 10:05 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York Mets (Orlando Hernandez 3-3) at Philadelphia Phillies(Cole Hamels 9-3), 1:35 p.m., 1st game Milwaukee Brewers (Yovani Gallardo 1-0) at Chicago Cubs (RichHill 5-5), 2:20 p.m. New York Mets (John Maine 8-4) at Philadelphia Phillies (ChadDurbin 0-0), 7:05 p.m., 2nd game Atlanta Braves (Kyle Davies 3-7) at Florida Marlins (JoshJohnson 0-2), 7:05 p.m. Washington Nationals (Matt Chico 3-5) at Pittsburgh Pirates (IanSnell 6-5), 7:05 p.m. St. Louis Cardinals (Brad Thompson 6-3) at Cincinnati Reds(Bronson Arroyo 2-9), 7:10 p.m. Colorado Rockies (Josh Fogg 3-6) at Houston Astros (ChrisSampson 6-5), 8:05 p.m. Arizona Diamondbacks (Livan Hernandez 5-5) at San FranciscoGiants (Matt Morris 7-4), 10:15 p.m. San Diego Padres (Chris Young 7-3) at Los Angeles Dodgers(Hong-Chih Kuo 1-3), 10:40 p.m. W-N-B-A Thursday's Score Houston 81, Seattle 76 Today's Games Detroit at Washington, 7 p.m. Indiana at Connecticut, 7 p.m. Minnesota at San Antonio, 8 p.m. Chicago at Sacramento, 10 p.m. New York at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. M-L-S Thursday's Game D.C. United 4, Colorado 1 No Games Today Saturday's Games Houston at FC Dallas, 6 p.m. New York at Columbus, 8 p.m. New England at CD Chivas USA, 10:30 p.m. N-B-A first-round draft selections At New York First Round 1. Portland, Greg Oden, c, Ohio State. 2. Seattle, Kevin Durant, f, Texas. 3. Atlanta, Al Horford, f, Florida. 4. Memphis, Michael Conley, g, Ohio State. 5. a-Boston, Jeff Green, f, Georgetown. 6. Milwaukee, Yi Jianlian, f, Guandong Tigers (China). 7. Minnesota, Corey Brewer, f, Florida. 8. Charlotte, Brandan Wright, f, North Carolina. 9. Chicago (from New York), Joakim Noah, f, Florida. 10. Sacramento, Spencer Hawes, c, Washington. 11. Atlanta (from Indiana), Acie Law, g, Texas A&M. 12. Philadelphia, Thaddeus Young, f, Georgia Tech. 13. New Orleans, Julian Wright, f, Kansas. 14. L.A. Clippers, Al Thornton, f, Florida State. 15. Detroit (from Orlando), Rodney Stuckey, g, EasternWashington. 16. Washington, Nick Young, g, Southern Cal. 17. New Jersey, Sean Williams, f, Boston College. 18. Golden State, Marco Belinelli, g, Climamio Bologna (Italy). 19. L.A. Lakers, Javaris Crittenton, g, Georgia Tech. 20. b-Miami, Jason Smith, f, Colorado State. 21. b-Philadelphia (from Denver), Daequan Cook, g, Ohio State. 22. Charlotte (from Toronto through Cleveland), Jared Dudley, f,Boston College. 23. New York (from Chicago), Wilson Chandler, f, DePaul. 24. Phoenix (from Cleveland through Boston), Rudy Fernandez, g,DVK Joventut Badalona (Spain). 25. Utah, Morris Almond, g, Rice. 26. Houston, Aaron Brooks, g, Oregon. 27. Detroit, Aaron Afflalo, g, UCLA. 28. San Antonio, Tiago Splitter, f, Tau Vitoria (Spain). 29. Phoenix, Alando Tucker, f, Wisconsin. 30. Philadelphia (from Dallas through Denver and Golden State),Petteri Koponen, g, Honka (Finland). --- a-Boston traded the rights to F Jeff Green, a futuresecond-round draft pick, G Delonte West and F Wally Szczerbiak toSeattle for G Ray Allen and its second-round draft pick (No. 35). b-Miami traded the rights to C Jason Smith to Philadelphia forthe rights to G Daequan Cook, a 2009 second-round pick and cashconsiderations.
