Rams defensive tackle Adam Carriker is back at practice after suffering an ankle injury, but the 2007 first-round draft pick is working with the third-string defense, at least for now.


Carriker injured his left ankle — the same one that bothered him last season — during a scrimmage Aug. 7. He returned to individual drills Monday, then resumed working out with the team Tuesday and Wednesday.

Gary Gibson and Clifton Ryan are the Rams’ first-team tackles for now. Gibson, 27, was signed as a free agent in April after two seasons in Carolina, where he played in 12 games with no starts. Ryan has started 12 of 32 career games, all with the Rams.


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Zack Greinke had never had such a strikeout pitch working. Nor had any pitcher in the Royals’ 41-year history.


Greinke struck out 15 Indians on Tuesday night as the Royals ended a five-game skid, 6-2, and earned a standing ovation from 17,353 fans at Kauffman Stadium. Greinke broke the club record of 14 strikeouts set by Mark Gubicza against Minnesota on Aug. 27, 1988.

And he did it in just eight innings. To hear Greinke tell it, it was a simple thing.

“My plan was to get ahead with pitches, and once you get ahead, to finish it,” Greinke said.

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Albert Pujols didn’t make a lot of friends at PETCO Park on Sunday. He frustrated the hometown team and fans with his bat, hitting his 40th home run of the year in the fourth inning. Two frames later, he got into a dustup with Padres rookie Will Venable over a play at first base.


Pujols reached the 40-homer plateau for the fifth time in his career, and it’s the 11th 40-homer season in the history of the Cardinals franchise. Pujols, Mark McGwire, Johnny Mize, Rogers Hornsby and Jim Edmonds are the only players to hit 40 in a season for the Cardinals. Pujols is the 20th player in Major League history with five 40-homer seasons, according to baseball-reference.com.


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Aside from a brief, early break to rest a strained hamstring, Felipe Lopez has played every game since the Brewers traded for him last month. He’d like to keep it that way.


That means he should be back atop the lineup on Friday, when the Brewers return from an off-day to begin a four-game series at Nationals Park. It will be one of Lopez’s many homecomings, since the Nationals are one of the six teams for which he’s played.

Lopez has not taken a game off since his Brewers tenure began, but whether he has taken a few plays off remains a matter for debate. Lopez finally provided an explanation this week for the two ground balls that eluded him on Aug. 11, drawing the ire of fans at Miller Park, saying, “I was cramping up really bad that day. Really bad.” The fans let him have it again two days later, when Lopez dropped an easy popup and cost the Brewers two runs.


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Gil Meche has yet to return to the form that made him a stalwart on Kansas City’s pitching staff earlier this season. In two starts since missing a month with an ailing back, he hasn’t even lasted beyond the fifth inning.


But five innings was all Meche needed on Tuesday night to pick up a victory against the White Sox. Although Meche didn’t pitch his best, he received plenty of help, both offensively and defensively, and left with a one-run lead that held up in a 5-4 victory at U.S. Cellular Field.

“The way I pitched, yeah, it was really nice to come out with a win,” Meche said. “I didn’t really throw any pitches with consistency the whole night. I was everywhere. The fastball wasn’t good. I didn’t feel bad. I just had no life on the ball. Just trying to stay in there as much as I could. It wasn’t pretty, like I said, but it got a ‘W.’”


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The Kansas City receiving corps is taking on a veteran look. The Chiefs on Monday signed Ashley Lelie, a seven-year pro. He joins Amani Toomer, a 13-year veteran who signed on Aug. 4.

Lelie, in stints with Denver, Atlanta, San Francisco and Oakland, has caught 217 passes for 3,749 yards and 15 touchdowns.

Wide receiver has been one of many problem areas for Kansas City in recent years. Dwayne Bowe, their first-round pick three years ago, has spent most of training camp in the coaches’ doghouse. He did have five catches for 70 yards in Saturday’s preseason opener.

Lelie was the Broncos’ first-round pick out of Hawaii in 2002.

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Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder and Dodgers reliever Guillermo Mota were each levied fines by Major League Baseball but avoided suspensions for their actions during and after Tuesday’s game at Dodger Stadium, according to Brewers media relations director Mike Vassallo. Major League Baseball has not yet announced the penalties.

Mota hit Fielder with a pitch in retaliation, according to Dodgers catcher Russell Martin, for the Chris Smith offering two innings earlier that hit Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez. Fielder waited until after the game to vent his displeasure, charging to the door of the Dodgers’ clubhouse, followed by a group of teammates who eventually convinced him to return to the visitor’s side.

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