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Spring Training Capsules. Stephen Strasburg allowed two solo homers and struck out eight in four innings, and the Washington Nationals beat a St. Louis Cardinals split squad 13-5 on Friday night.

Royals' Brian Anderson hits for cycle and has seven RBIs in a 24-9 win over Diamondbacks. Brian Anderson went 5 for 5 with seven RBIs and hit for the cycle in the Kansas City Royals' 24-9 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Cy Young Award winner Cliff Lee of the Seattle Mariners has been handed a five-game suspension for "intentionally" throwing at the head of Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Chris Snyder, Major League Baseball said on Wednesday.

Edwin Jackson struggles in Arizona's 13-7 loss to Reds. Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Edwin Jackson wasn't his usual sharp self in a 13-7 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.

FDA says order will not affect supplies of heart medications. The Food and Drug Administration FDA has ordered Glenmark Generics of Mahwah, N.J., and Konec Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., to stop marketing unapproved nitroglycerin tablets. The tablets are placed under the tongue to relieve chest pain or to stop a heart attack and are marketed in 0.3 mg, 0.4 mg, and 0.6 mg dosages.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - The U.S. government is pulling $50 million in funding from a problematic "virtual fence" meant to secure stretches of the Mexico border and is freezing additional funding for the project pending review, authorities said on Tuesday.

McCain to campaign with ex-running mate Sarah Palin for 1st time since presidential election. John McCain and Sarah Palin are scheduled to campaign together in Arizona next week for the first time since they conceded the presidential election in Phoenix in 2008.

Jackson, LaRoche help lift Diamondbacks to 8-7 win over Rockies in Mexico. Conor Jackson and Adam LaRoche homered for the Arizona Diamondbacks in an 8-7 win over a Colorado split squad Sunday.

Pucetas remains spotless, Torres homers to lift Giants' split squad to 8-4 win over Mariners. San Francisco pitcher Kevin Pucetas continued his spotless spring by retiring all nine Seattle hitters he faced and outfielder Andres Torres homered, doubled and scored three times for a Giants split squad that beat the Mariners 8-4 Saturday.

Billingsley goes 3 scoreless innings for Dodgers, but Diamondbacks get 7-3 win. Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Chad Billingsley didn't throw change-ups often last season.

Two-time reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Lincecum has another shaky start against Seattle. Tim Lincecum's 19-pitch first inning was an adventure.

Birds, shrubs found only in Hawaii among 48 species added to endangered list. Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish.

Rockies get 16 hits, Ubaldo Jimenez throws 3 scoreless innings as Rockies beat Dodgers 12-0. Ubaldo Jimenez showed little rust Tuesday with three scoreless innings to help the Colorado Rockies to a 12-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Freedom Communications wins court approval of Chapter 11 reorganization plan. Newspaper and television company Freedom Communications won approval from a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday for a reorganization plan that would give key lenders ownership of the company.

Aaron Cook gives up two hits in three-inning. Aaron Cook pitched two-hit ball for three innings in his spring debut, and the Colorado Rockies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-1 in a game between split squads that was called because of rain with one out in the seventh inning Sunday.

Texas Rangers at Cleveland Indians exhibition canceled by rain. Jake Westbrook will have to wait at least another day to make his spring debut for the Cleveland Indians.

Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown headlines campaign rally in Tucson for John McCain. U.S. Sen. John McCain says the race for the Republican nomination for the seat he currently holds should be about fixing the economy, not about political ideology.

Popular Republican Scott Brown makes first campaign stop for McCain in Arizona. Facing the toughest re-election battle of his career, John McCain enlisted a rising star of the Republican Party in a bid Friday to lock down support among conservative primary voters.

PHOENIX - US Senator Scott Brown, driving past neat rows of palm trees and haciendas, brought his political star power to Arizona yesterday to join his senior colleague Senator John McCain at a campaign rally that featured strongly worded denunciations of the Democrats' proposed health care plan. If the sight of a freshman senator from Massachusetts arriving to burnish the conservative credentials of the GOP's 2008 presidential nominee was somewhat jarring, so too were the swarms of Phoenix residents seeking Brown's autograph in a crush after the rally. ``I'm honored to be in Antelope country!'' Brown told a crowd of about 1,000 in the gymnasium of Grand Canyon University, a nondenominational Christian school whose sports teams are known affectionately as the 'Lopes. ``Wow. This is great,'' he said. ``If you told me five months ago that I'd be standing here in front of you, I would say, `You're full of it.' '' McCain is locked in one of his toughest reelection fights of his career, and

Popular Republican Scott Brown makes first campaign stop for McCain in Arizona. John McCain is facing the toughest re-election battle of his career, and he's bringing in the Republican Party's newest rising star to help him out.