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MLB Pushes For Replay

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The Associated Press

The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 14, 2008

NEW YORK - Instant replay might be coming to Major League Baseball in an instant.

Moving faster than expected and coming after a rash of blown calls, baseball wants to put replay into effect by August for home run disputes in hopes of fine-tuning the system by the playoffs.

MLB and the umpires' union need to reach agreement before replay can be tried, and the sides have started talking. Previously, it was thought replay would get its first look in the Arizona Fall League and then the 2009 World Baseball Classic.

Jimmie Lee Solomon, MLB's executive vice president for baseball operations, is pushing for replay by Aug. 1; Rob Manfred, MLB's executive vice president of labor relations, suggested Aug. 15.

BRAVES: Third baseman Chipper Jones, who leads the majors with a .414 average, was scratched from the lineup Friday night against the Angels after a freak accident during batting practice.

Jones fouled off a pitch, and the ball ricocheted off the crossbar at the top of the batting cage and struck him near the left eye. The Braves announced that the five-time All-Star suffered a contusion and was taken for X-rays.

MARINERS: All-Star closer J.J. Putz went on the 15-day DL with a hyperextended pitching elbow, the latest setback in a season gone wrong for Seattle.

METS: This is one trip that's becoming awfully familiar to Moises Alou.

The 41-year-old outfielder went back on the 15-day disabled list Friday, after making just one rain-shortened start since his last trip there.

RED SOX: Right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka is expected to pitch in a minor-league game next week as part of his comeback from a sore shoulder. Matsuzaka threw on Friday before the start of Boston's series against the Reds.

WHITE SOX: Right-hander Esteban Loaiza went on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation.

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