Article: BASEBALL: INSIDE DISH

The weather finally is warming, and not coincidentally, so are the bats. But offensive production still is down compared with last year. After the first three weeks of 2006, four teams were hitting under .250; this season, 14 are. Last year, 12 teams had ERAs higher than 5.00 after three weeks; this season, only three do. > We will find out in the next week whether caution used by Mariners RHP Felix Hernandez saved his season. Hernandez took himself out of a game against the Twins after throwing 24 pitches-a start in which he allowed two singles and a walk and threw a wild pitch-because of elbow tightness. The Mariners later said an MRI showed no ligament damage. If Hernandez had ...

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