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MLB News:

• AP: Trevor Story receiving treatment for right elbow inflammation...
• Perry: This could be Bryce Harper’s last homestand with the Nationals; here’s what he had to say about it...
• Axisa: Home of Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig reportedly burglarized for fourth time in two years...
• Baer: Minor League Baseball eclipses 40 million in attendance for 14th consecutive season...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Sullivan: Interleague Play and the Death of a 14-Year Streak...
• Bouton: Lifestyles of the Perpetually Traded...
• Karraker: Losing Eric Hosmer may have been a blessing in disguise for the Royals...
• Javier Báez’s OBP would make him a rare kind of MVP winner...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1980 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals goes 0 for 4 in a 9 - 0 loss to the Oakland Athletics, to drop his average below .400. He is now hitting .396 and will finish the season at .390.
• 2010 - After starting his career 0 for 33, Chris Carter hits a single off Chicago’s Scott Linebrink to spark a three-run rally in a 3 - 0 Oakland win. Carter is just two at-bats shy of matching the worst start to a career by a position player in 100 years.

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