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Baseball Notebook: Yankees shuffle Series roster
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Published: October 29, 2009
■ Yankees: New York made two roster changes for the World Series, adding right-handed reliever Brian Bruney and utilityman Eric Hinske.
Pinch-runner Freddy Guzman and catcher Francisco Cervelli were dropped yesterday.
Bruney was 5-0 with a 3.92 ERA in 44 regular-season appearances. He wasn't active for the first two rounds of the playoffs and hasn't pitched in a game since Oct. 2.
Hinske, acquired from Pittsburgh on June 30, was on the roster for the division series against Minnesota but didn't appear.
Hinske pinch hit for Tampa Bay in Game 4 of last year's World Series and homered off the Phillies' Joe Blanton.
■ Phillies: Pedro Martinez said he regrets throwing Don Zimmer to the ground during a bench-clearing brawl in the playoffs six years ago.
Scheduled to pitch for Philadelphia against the New York Yankees in Game 2 of the World Series, Martinez said his ugly altercation with Zimmer, then a 72-year-old Yankees bench coach, during the 2003 AL championship series was a disgrace for baseball.
■ Need two! William Brennan, the attorney for a Philadelphia woman charged with offering sex for World Series tickets, said that is client, Susan Finkelstein, is "a nice lady overcome with Phillies fever."
Brennan says that Finkelstein, a 43-year-old grad student at Penn, might have dropped double entendres in her Craigslist ad but never explicitly offered sex. He said she wanted to take her husband to a game between her beloved Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees and that was trying to find tickets online, as she had in the past.
Finkelstein was arrested Tuesday after meeting at a suburban bar with an undercover police officer responding to the ad.
Brennan said he hopes to get the charges dismissed.
■ White Sox: The Class AAA Charlotte Knights announced yesterday that they will play an exhibition against the parent Chicago White Sox on April 1 at Knights Stadium in Fort Mill, S.C.
■ Dodgers: Frank McCourt, the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is opposing his wife's demand to be reinstated as the team's chief executive, citing insubordination and an inappropriate relationship she is alleged to have had with her bodyguard. The Dodgers' attorney filed papers yesterday, one day after Jamie McCourt filed divorce papers seeking to regain her job.
The documents filed by the team accuse Jamie McCourt of traveling with her bodyguard in early July to Israel on team business, but then heading to France for 2½ weeks and billing the Dodgers for the trip. Frank McCourt also accuses his wife of not giving him any information about her assignments as chief executive.
■ Bat lawsuit: A Montana jury has found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers that the bats can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.
The jury yesterday awarded a total of $850,000 in damages against Hillerich & Bradsby for failure to put warnings on the product. However, the jury decided that the product was not defective.
Brandon Patch's family argued that aluminum baseball bats are dangerous because they cause the ball to travel at a greater speed. They argued their 18-year-old son did not have enough time to react to the ball being struck before it hit him in the head while he was pitching in an American Legion baseball game in Helena in 2003.
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