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• Padres starter Greg Maddux took a line drive off his thigh and had to leave the game Thursday against the Cubs. The ball, hit by Derrek Lee in the first inning, left a bruise on Maddux's left thigh. Maddux recovered and threw Lee out, but left the game after two innings. The Padres listed him as day-to-day.

• The Cardinals strengthened their thin rotation Thursday by reaching a preliminary agreement with pitcher Kyle Lohse on a $4.25 million, one-year contract. General manager John Mozeliak said the 29-year-old Lohse was flying in from California and would undergo a physical today at the team's Jupiter, Fla., spring training site.

• Juan Gonzalez has a minor abdominal strain, which is slowing his attempt to return to the major leagues with the Cardinals. Manager Tony La Russa said Thursday he scratched Gonzalez, 38, from the lineup card a day earlier. Gonzalez, a two-time AL MVP who missed the last two years and had only one at-bat in 2005, said he was day-to-day and receiving treatment before and after games.

• An auction house says a Colorado man has decided to sell the baseball Barry Bonds hit for career homer No. 762. It could fetch $1 million. SCP Auctions said Thursday that 24-year-old Jameson Sutton of Boulder snared Bonds' final homer of last season on Sept. 5 at Coors Field. SCP says Sutton has decided to sell the ball in an online auction starting March 31.

• The career of former Diamondbacks pitcher Brian Anderson is over. An MRI performed Thursday revealed the Rays left-hander suffered a career-ending elbow injury in the sixth inning Wednesday against the Yankees. Anderson, 82-83 with a 4.74 ERA in parts of 11 seasons with California, Arizona, Cleveland and Kansas City, last pitched in the majors in 2005.

• Comedian Billy Crystal whacked himself in the helmet with his backswing, found his shoelaces and socks sabotaged and watched his team lose. Oh, and the Yankees rookie struck out in his one and only at-bat as a big-leaguer. "It was the strangest, greatest moment of my life," he said Thursday. A day before his 60th birthday, Crystal said he enjoyed every moment of the day he had hoped for his entire life. "I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. That's an amazing feeling," he said.

• CDO alum Shelley Duncan watched video of his hard slide in the Yankees' game Wednesday against Tampa Bay and still does not think it was a dirty play. The New York first baseman's slide into second base with his spikes raised sparked a bench-clearing scrum that resulted in two players and two coaches being ejected in the second inning of Wednesday's contest. "I saw it a couple times," Duncan said Thursday. "I still don't understand why they were as upset as they were."

• Royals second baseman Mark Grudzielanek, who has been out with a bad back, returned Thursday to Kansas City to have it examined. The 37-year-old Grudzielanek had two surgeries on his left knee last year and has played in only three spring training games. He has not played since Monday because of tightness in his lower back.

— The Associated Press