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The Braves enter the season's final month in prime position to allow manager Bobby Cox to make one more run through the postseason before he concludes his highly-successful managerial career.

FOX's "This Week in Baseball," where viewers will be treated to an inside look at the lesser-known jobs in baseball that are crucial to making each game a reality on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET.

Several hard-nosed players who grinded through double-digit seasons of Minor League baseball, endured hundreds of bus trips, and dealt with multiple Spring Training cuts only to get their first real shot this week at the pinnacle of professional baseball.

The battle between the White Sox and the first-place Twins is going to come down to pitching, plain and simple. Because on two teams similar statistically (if not stylistically), the playoff race inevitably becomes an arms race in the September stretch run.

While there is no such thing as an easy road to the playoffs, it appears likely that some contenders will face more scheduling potholes than others during the next month.

Labor Day weekend is going to revolve around the National Pastime, as it always does. It will be that way right through the busiest Monday of the baseball season, featuring 16 games.

It took a 13th-inning solo homer from Gerald Laird and a third inning of relief from Jose Valverde to send the Tigers out of town with a 10-9 win over the Twins.

Though the Major Leagues were operating on a limited slate of six games on Thursday, the action was furious with several playoff races affected.

The Tigers have to hope that their star slugger and American League MVP candidate can return quickly from his bout of biceps tendinitis in his left shoulder.

Twins starter Scott Baker left Thursday's contest against the Tigers with right elbow pain after pitching just two innings.

A day after getting involved in a fracas with the Marlins during a 16-10 loss, Nationals center fielder Nyjer Morgan said on Thursday he doesn't have any regrets, even though he most likely will be handed a fine and suspension, which could be announced by Major League Baseball as early as Friday.

The Phillies victimized the Rockies with a nine-run rally in the seventh to take the lead en route to a 12-11 victory that was packed with all the drama and firepower of a three-game set.

Rockies manager Jim Tracy was ejected by home-plate umpire Paul Emmel in the sixth inning of Thursday's 12-11 loss to the Phillies after arguing Emmel's call that pinch-hitter Mike Sweeney should be awarded first base after being hit by a pitch.

Adrian Beltre homered and David Ortiz had two RBIs in the second, but it was Scott Atchison's two perfect frames of relief that sealed Boston's 6-4 win vs. Baltimore on Thursday.

Tim Hudson surrendered four hits during the two-run first inning that gave Johan Santana enough support to help the Mets claim a 4-2 win over the Braves on Thursday night at Turner Field.

Mets starter Johan Santana left Thursday's 4-2 win over the Braves with a strained left pectoral muscle. He is day-to-day.

Carlos Gonzalez has a 10-game hitting streak after a 3-for-5 performance in Colorado's 12-11 loss to the Phillies on Thursday, and he has notched an extra-base hit in each of those 10 games.

Eric Hinske has made valuable contributions to three straight championship teams. Now he's with the Braves, where he could end up making valuable contributions to a fourth straight championship team.

Had everything gone the way right-hander Brandon Lyon would have preferred, teammate Matt Lindstrom never would have had to go on the disabled list and would have continued finishing off games while Lyon happily served as the Astros' eighth-inning setup man.