...preliminary agreement with pitcher Kyle Lohse on a $4.25 million, one-year deal. SICK: Former Cy Young Award winner Rick Sutcliffe has colon cancer and will undergo chemotherapy and surgery. Sutcliffe, an analyst for ESPN, was diagnosed with...

CHICAGO - Rick Sutcliffe's self-described "bad judgment" has cost him an assignment at ESPN. An industry source said ESPN has removed Sutcliffe from...

...gotten better." Known for his unemotional demeanor on the mound, Maddux credits early teammates Scott Sanderson, Rick Sutcliffe and Goose Gossage as influences. Gossage, he said, taught him how to pitch and then put the performance - good...

...pitchers have won in a shutout: Sandy Koufax (1963, 1965 and 1966), Bob Gibson (1968), Steve Carlton (1972), Rick Sutcliffe (1984), Dwight Gooden (1985), Orel Hershiser (1988) and Greg Maddux (1994 and 1995). The only pitchers...

...history to hit a home run in his first NLCS at-bat. The others: Joe Morgan (Cincinnati 1972), Bob Dernier and Rick Sutcliffe (Chicago 1984), Glenn Davis (Houston 1986), Mark Grace(Chicago 1989) and Orlando Merced (Pittsburgh 1991...

...pitchers on their ballots. The last time the N.L. Cy Young vote was this close was 1987, when Steve Bedrosian beat Rick Sutcliffe by two votes and Rick Reuschel by three. Another Padres pitcher, Kevin Brown, was third with eight firsts, eight...

...gotten better." Known for his unemotional demeanor on the mound, Maddux credits early teammates Scott Sanderson, Rick Sutcliffe and Goose Gossage as influences. Gossage, he said, taught him how to pitch and then put the performance - good...

...two-run homer had Wrigley Field shaking with excitement. He was the first NLCS pitcher to homer since Chicago's Rick Sutcliffe did it in 1984 against the Padres. But after Moises Alou put the Cubs ahead 5-3 with a two-run homer of his own...

...hit 22 in the 1995 AL division series. ... Rodriguez has gotten a hit in all 11 of the Marlins' postseason games this year. ... Wood was the fourth pitcher to homer in NLCS play, the first since Rick Sutcliffe of the Cubs in 1984.

...be dropped from the ballot, a group that includes Jeff Reardon (24), Bob Boone (21), Willie Wilson (10), Rick Sutcliffe (9), Kent Hrbek (5) and Charlie Hough (4). Six writers, deciding no one was worthy, submitted blank ballots...