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Irish tenor Ronan Tynan says he's sorry for making an anti-Semitic remark, and hopes for another chance to sing his noted rendition of "God Bless America" at Yankee Stadium. "This is my mea culpa," he told The Associated Press before Saturday night's playoff game between the Los Angeles Angels and New York Yankees.

On the verge of taking a commanding two-game lead in the National League championship series, the Philadelphia Phillies' bullpen couldn't shut the door. With the way Cliff Lee has pitched in his first two postseason starts, the much-maligned relief corps might not be needed for Game 3. The ace left-hander gets the ball Sunday night [...]

Erick Aybar singled in a run, a suddenly shaky A.J. Burnett sent home another with his second wild pitch of the fifth and the Los Angeles Angels rallied for a 2-2 tie with the New York Yankees after six innings Saturday on another bitterly raw night in the AL championship series. Coming off a 4-1 [...]

Jorge Posada made his 91st postseason start at catcher Friday night. No. 92 is going to have to wait. As he did in the division series, Yankees manager Joe Girardi inserted Jose Molina into the lineup with A.J. Burnett getting the start for Game 2 of the American League championship series. "One of the things [...]

Chase Utley makes two costly throwing errors, and suddenly he's being mentioned with Steve Sax and Chuck Knoblauch. Utley's fielding gaffes were the talk of the town when the Philadelphia Phillies returned home Saturday after splitting the first two games of the NL championship series at Los Angeles.

The Pittsburgh Pirates have named Ray Searage pitching coach after two seasons in the same position with Triple-A affiliate Indianapolis. The team also says that first-base coach and infield instructor Perry Hill will not return in 2010. The 54-year-old Searage has been a pitching coach in the Pirates' organization for seven seasons and recently completed [...]

Former Arizona Diamondbacks pitching coach Bryan Price has been hired for the same position with the Cincinnati Reds. He replaces Dick Pole, who was fired on Oct. 2 as the only change on manager Dusty Baker's staff. Price has spent the last 10 years as a pitching coach in the majors. He was with Arizona [...]

Phil Garner didn't need to bring a resume to his interview with the Houston Astros on Saturday. He just wore his NL championship ring. Garner met with the Astros to talk about becoming their next manager, just over two years after the franchise fired him. His successor, Cecil Cooper, was fired on Sept.

Phil Garner has interviewed for the Houston Astros managerial job — two years after the franchise fired him. Garner met with the team on Saturday. He was the seventh of the 10 candidates slated to interview with the Astros, who fired Cecil Cooper on Sept. 21. Cooper replaced Garner when he was relieved in August [...]

In their AL division series against Minnesota, the New York Yankees used an efficient outing from CC Sabathia to win the opener, followed by a solid enough effort from A.J. Burnett to help them take a 2-0 series lead. The Yankees hope that pattern continues in the AL championship series Saturday night when they send [...]