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Phils P Eyre leaves injured
Philadelphia Phillies lefty reliever Scott Eyre departed Game 3 of the National League Division Series against Colorado with an apparent right ankle injury.
With Philadelphia ahead 5-4 in the seventh inning, Carlos Gonzalez led off the bottom of the frame with a double to center field. Dexter Fowler then bunted between the mound and first base. Eyre, in an effort to field the ball, appeared to roll his ankle and tumbled to the ground as Fowler raced to first for the infield hit to put runners on the corners.
Eyre walked off the field under his own power and was replaced by Ryan Madson, who allowed a sacrifice fly to Troy Tulowitzki.
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Eyre calls it a career
Left-handed reliever Scott Eyre has apparently decided to call it a career after 13 big league seasons.
Eyre spent last year with the Philadelphia Phillies and was 2-1 with a 1.50 earned run average in 42 games, but was not offered a big league contract with the team
"I had most of this retirement thing planned out," Eyre told the team's official website. "I think even if he would have offered me a better contract I still don't think I would have taken it."
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Finding Charlotte in Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë was a dutiful daughter of the Victorian age. Her best-known character, Jane Eyre, endures as a woman who transcends time and social order. How Charlotte released Jane into the world is the subject of Sheila Kohler's new novel, "Becoming Jane Eyre."
Charlotte Brontë was the third of a poor curate's six children. Her childhood was marked by her mother's death from cancer and two sisters' deaths from neglect in a sinister boarding school.
Her adult life was at times defined by the agony of waiting for responses to the explosive letters she sent to friends, a married man who had been her teacher and her flirty publisher. Otherwise, most of her days were spent tending the needs of her restrictive father and a brother who drank himself to disgrace and then death.
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Public pedestrian trail an urban gem
On Monday morning, McCauley Street resident Chuck Alcorn left his back yard, walked along a tree-lined path, opened a wooden gate and strode right up to Doug Eyre's back door.
Not everyone wants a public pedestrian trail running past their backyards, and some folks put up stockade fences to keep strangers out. But not on this secluded greenway, which sits on top of two tunnels carrying steam to UNC-Chapel Hill.
Eyre and Alcorn are among several residents on McCauley Street and East Patterson Place who treasure the tree-lined right-of-way that once accommodated train cars and now serves dog-walkers, baby-pushers and college students strolling to and from class.
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Phillies finalize NLCS roster
The Philadelphia Phillies finalized their 25-man roster for the National League Championship Series, which is slated to start Thursday at Dodger Stadium.
The defending World Series champions will have Paul Bako and Carlos Ruiz behind the plate; Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Pedro Feliz, Miguel Cairo and Eric Bruntlett patrolling the infield; outfielders Ben Francisco, Raul Ibanez, Matt Stairs, Jayson Werth and Shane Victorino; right-handed hurlers Joe Blanton, Chad Durbin, Brad Lidge, Ryan Madson, Pedro Martinez and Chan Ho Park and left-handers Antonio Bastardo, Scott Eyre, Game 1 starter Cole Hamels, J.A. Happ and Cliff Lee.
Pitchers Kyle Kendrick and Brett Myers, who were on the NLDS roster, were replaced by Bruntlett and Park, respectively.
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