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Moves Baseball BREWERS -- Recalled OF Laynce Nix from Triple-A Nashville. Added Nashville manager Frank Kremblas to coaching staff. PHILLIES -- Activated OF Michael Bourn from DL. Basketball NETS -- Signed F Malik Allen. 76ERS -- Acquired F Reggie Evans and rights to F Ricky Sanchez from Nuggets for F Bobby Jones and F-C Steven Hunter. Agreed to terms with C Calvin Booth Colleges SETON HALL -- Announced basketball F Robert Mitchell has transferred from Duquesne. UTAH STATE -- Suspended football S Antonio Taylor for season after violation of team rules.

Good morning -- Phillies fans -- What's the formula for converting 10,000 losses into number of times you've booed?

Good morning -- New York Mets -- You couldn't hold off the Phillies, and now you're forever linked to the 1964 Philadelphia team.

PHILADELPHIA -- It's difficult not to look at the numbers that Philadelphia Phillies ace Curt Schilling has put together over the past few years and wonder what might have been.What if the Orioles had realized what they had when they made him the third player in the infamous trade that also sent outfielder Steve Finley and pitcher Pete Harnisch to the Houston Astros for injury-hampered first baseman Glenn Davis?It's an old story. Every one of the players in the Orioles' half of that package went on to bigger and better things.

The Orioles came within a strike of winning in routine fashion last night. Instead, they had to do it the hard way. Has anything come easily for this team?Shortstop Mike Bordick singled with two outs in the 10th inning to score Will Clark and give the Orioles a 7-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies before 48,531 who saw the winners blow two leads and a feel-good story for pitcher Sidney Ponson.Clark drew a two-out walk off Phillies right-hander Steve Montgomery. Jeff Reboulet, who had pinch-run for Cal Ripken the previous inning, lined a single into right field, and Bordick ended the madness with a looping single over second baseman David Doster.

As ragged as his five innings looked, as tenuous as the Orioles' 5-1 lead seemed, Juan Guzman wanted more.More pitches, more innings, more work."I need to pitch as much as I can to get out of the jam I'm in right now," the veteran Orioles pitcher said over and over yesterday.Guzman got 79 tense pitches on a day when manager Ray Miller's patience inched closer to exhaustion. And when the Orioles' bullpen poured kerosene on the brushfires that Guzman had set, they got an 11-7 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.

Braves: John Smoltz became the 53rd pitcher in major-league history to get 2,000 career strikeouts.Mets: Roger Cedeno was caught stealing for the fifth time.Phillies: Scott Rolen homered for the second straight day after not hitting one in 63 at-bats. Attendance of 37,180 -- including many Yankees fans -- was the largest since Opening Day and nearly double the Phillies' average of 18,881.Pirates: Jason Kendall extended his hitting streak to 16 games.

Quote: "I don't know why we always wait so long but there's always a lot of dramatic excitement." -- Mark Grace of the Cubs, whose team won for the 10th time this season on its last at-bat.It's a fact: Padres closer Trevor Hoffman, who last season was 53-for-54 in save chances, has already blown three this season.Who's hot: The Diamondbacks' Steve Finley had four extra-base hits last night, finishing 9-for-15 in the three-game series at Montreal.Who's not: The Giants have lost 13 of 18 road games and, with last night's loss to the Phillies, have dropped six of their last seven.

Quote: "If the wind was blowing out, I would have broken their lawn mower so the grass would've grown real high." -- Manager Terry Francona, whose Phillies got the only homer at Wrigley Field yesterdayIt's a fact: The Phillies have the top day-game record in the NL at 15-7.Who's hot: The Reds' Michael Tucker is 7-for-14 in his past five games, all on the road, with six RBIs and five runs.Who's not: Last night's attendance of 6,630 dropped Montreal's major-league-low average to 8,938 in 38 games at Olympic Stadium.

Quote: "I'm not a fast starter. Somebody pulled my numbers the other day from April of last year and told me I was only one home run and one RBI off my pace from last year." -- Greg Vaughn of the Reds, who had five homers last April and finished with 50. He had four last month and has seven now.It's a fact: The Phillies' Rico Brogna and the Cardinals' Mark McGwire are the only two first basemen in the National League without an error.Who's hot: The Phillies have scored 60 runs in eight games in May, an average of 7.5.Who's not: The Reds' Mike Cameron is in a 4-for-25 slump.

The New York Yankees advance to the World Series by defeating the Los Angeles Angels, 5-2, in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series. Andy Pettitte pitched into the seventh inning for his record 16th postseason victory, and Johnny Damon drove in two runs (including Nick Swisher, above) with a fourth-inning single. The Philadelphia Phillies' Cliff Lee is expected to face Yankees ace CC Sabathia in the Series opener Wednesday night in New York. PG 12

News item: : The Ravens get a breather this weekend after three straight tough losses cast serious doubt on whether they deserve a place among the AFC's elite teams. My take: : Fair enough, but before anybody panics, keep in mind that the Ravens also were 3-3 after six games last year and went on to play in the AFC championship game. Related news item: : The Ravens have dropped to No. 11 in the ESPN.com NFL power rankings, after being ranked No. 1 going into Week 4. My take: : They were probably overrated after beating the Kansas City Chiefs, San Diego Chargers and Cleveland Browns, but No. 11 sounds about right this week.

Catching a break Trying to hold a one-run lead in the final two innings, the Orioles got more steady relief work from Jim Johnson and George Sherrill, along with a favorable call from first base umpire Larry Vanover. With one out and nobody on in the eighth, Phillies leadoff man Jimmy Rollins hit a chopper down the first base line. Ty Wigginton fielded it but with his momentum carrying him in another direction, he whiffed on the tag of Rollins. Vanover thought otherwise and called the runner out. Phillies manager Charlie Manuel was ejected from the game for arguing the call.

PHILADELPHIA - -With the Orioles one strike away from a potentially demoralizing loss, Brian Roberts was just trying to put the ball in play in the ninth inning against Philadelphia Phillies reliever Ryan Madson. The Orioles' leadoff man hadn't hit a homer in nearly a month. He entered Saturday's game with just two hits in his past 19 at-bats, so there was no point in thinking too ambitiously as he got into the batter's box. Watching the at-bat unfold from the dugout, Orioles first baseman Aubrey Huff was just hoping for a game-tying double.

PHILADELPHIA -- When Rich Hill was removed from his previous start after a rocky fourth inning, the normally docile pitcher made no attempt to hide his anger. Despite giving up four runs in the fourth and a two-run Orioles lead to the Atlanta Braves, Hill wanted the chance to salvage his outing and took out his frustrations on several pieces of equipment when he wasn't given that opportunity. In Friday's series opener against the Philadelphia Phillies, Hill again appeared headed for an early exit, but this time, he heeded pitching coach Rick Kranitz's advice and did something about it. The left-hander allowed two first-inning runs and then nothing else while pitching into the seventh inning and he added an RBI single in the Orioles' 7-2 victory over the Phillies before an announced sellout of 45,135 at Citizens Bank Park.

World champion Philadelphia is still leading the National League East, but the team has to be looking forward to the end of interleague play. The Phillies are 3-6 against the AL East, winning their first series at new Yankee Stadium, but losing five of six at home this week to the Red Sox and Blue Jays. The Phillies are coming off a sweep by the Jays, who outscored them 23-11. Philadelphia (36-28) is a dismal 13-19 at Citizens Bank Park. And the news gets worse for the Phillies. Outfielder Raul Ibanez, who was in the top three in the NL in homers (22)

Phillies@Nationals 7 p.m. [MASN] Baltimoreans are stuck in the middle of this matchup between the champs and the chumps. So, which are worse, the Phillies' obnoxious fans or the Nationals' apathetic ones?

ARLINGTON, Texas -Saying his left hamstring is getting worse and worse, third baseman Melvin Mora was not in the Orioles' lineup in Monday's series opener against the Texas Rangers. He said he isn't sure when he'll be able to return. Mora was removed from Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Rays after two at-bats because he felt his hamstring, which he initially hurt while playing for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic, tighten up in the cold weather. "I need to heal the thing before I go back into the lineup.

San Diego Padres owner John Moores has hired banking giant Goldman Sachs to search for a potential buyer as he goes through a divorce from his wife, Becky. "I have been told that, because these are difficult economic times, I should be prepared for a wide range of interest and offers," Moores said in an e-mail yesterday to the Associated Press. "Needless to say, San Diego is a very attractive place to own a baseball team," he said. The hiring of Goldman Sachs was first reported by mlb.com.

Record-setting closer Francisco Rodriguez and the New York Mets reached a preliminary agreement yesterday on a three-year, $37 million contract. The sides still have to work out a written agreement and the pitcher must pass a physical, two people familiar with the negotiations told the Associated Press. Rodriguez had 62 saves for the Los Angeles Angels last season, five more than the previous big league mark set by Bobby Thigpen of the Chicago White Sox in 1990, and then filed for free agency.