Mariners’ Reed could be out for six weeks
Seattle Mariners starting center fielder Jeremy Reed has a broken bone in his right wrist and could miss six weeks.
General manager Bill Bavasi announced Reed’s injury Friday morning at the team’s spring training headquarters in Peoria, Ariz. Bavasi said Reed fractured a small bone inside his wrist when he ran into the padded center-field fence at Peoria Sports Complex on Thursday night. Reed was pursuing a fifth-inning fly ball hit by Arizona catcher Johnny Estrada.
Reed was expected to begin this season back in center field and perhaps bat second behind All-Star Ichiro Suzuki.
■Seattle starter Jamie Moyer prepared for his opening-day start with a near-flawless performance. With just more than a week before the start of the regular season, Moyer held the defending champion Chicago White Sox to one hit in six shutout innings to lead the Mariners to a 4-3 win in Peoria, Ariz.
Judge denies Bonds’ bid
A judge in San Francisco denied Barry Bonds’ bid to block the authors and publishers from making money on a book claiming the San Francisco Giants slugger used steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, and said Bonds’ suit against them has little chance of success.
Bonds’ attorneys argued that the authors, publisher Gotham Books, the San Francisco Chronicle and Sports Illustrated, which published excerpts of the book, should be held liable for publishing “illegally obtained grand jury transcripts.”
The book, “Game of Shadows,” by Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, is based partly on grand jury testimony from a federal investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, where Bonds and several other major league players allegedly obtained performance-enhancing drugs.
But Judge James Warren refused to issue a temporary restraining order against the authors and publisher, citing free speech protections.
Although he did not throw out the lawsuit, Warren said it has little chance of success.
Notes
Detroit Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers won’t face possible jail time for knocking down a cameraman during a videotaped tirade last year if he completes an anger management class he has agreed to, prosecutors in Fort Worth, Texas, said. … The Kansas City Royals will start the season without pitcher Zack Greinke, and it remains uncertain when he will return. Greinke left spring training Feb. 26 for unspecified personal reasons to return to his home in Orlando, Fla. … President Bush will throw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Cincinnati Reds’ home opener April 3 against the Chicago Cubs. … St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Larry Bigbie is expected to be sidelined two to three weeks with a stress fracture of his left foot. … Boston claimed Hee-Seop Choi off waivers from the Los Angeles Dodgers, giving the Red Sox a backup first baseman.