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Cracks in the AL contenders

By Buster Olney

Thursday, September 17, 2009

The count was full, the bases were loaded and Brian Fuentes fired a fastball at the lowest part of the strike zone Wednesday night, and when home plate umpire Rick Reed called the pitch a ball -- the K Zone indicated that Fuentes' fastball nicked the strike zone -- and the tying run walked home, Angels manager Mike Scioscia was incredulous. His lower jaw may or may not have bounced off the dugout step in Fenway Park. But Scioscia is and always will be a forward thinker, and somewhere in his bra ...

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