ALMOST DID IT AGAIN The Mariners let the Yankees make it interesting, but a 7-2 deficit in the ninth is too big a mountain to climb, even against a bad Mariners club and a tiring Cliff Lee. At the risk of seeming hypercritical (although that’s an official part of my job description, and yours as fans) ...

It’s not official-official yet, but there’s more than enough evidence to say that Chien-Ming Wang has joined the Nationals. This is a fairly disastrous decision by Mr. Wang, whatever the status of his rehabilitation, because the Nationals are not going to give him the defensive support he requires ...