The Detroit Tigers moved into first place Friday behind a near no-hitter by Anibal Sanchez, who is leading a rotation that is so good that Justin Verlander is only fourth in ERA and WHIP (see table below). Sanchez lowered his ERA to 2.38 by coming within two outs of a no-hitter Friday to shut out the Twins and move the Tigers in front of the Cleveland Indians in the AL Central, just a month after he struck out 17 Braves. 

Sanchez just missed his second career no-hitter as the Tigers beat the Twins 6-0.

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55
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6
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21
69
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For the AP account of the fifth one-hitter of the season, click here.

The rotation as a whole is now 21-9, is striking out more than 10 batters for every nine innings pitched, and has a 3.31 ERA and 1.17 WHIP. The Wins Above Replacement (WAR) equations indicate the Tigers would be four and a half games behind the Indians and battling the White Sox and Royals for second through fought place without the four pitchers.

Minnesota’s Joe Mauer finally broke up the no-hitter with one out in the ninth, but Sanchez finished the game with a 6-0 win to hand the Twins their 10th straight loss.

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Several Maryland Abortion Clinics Lose Licenses, Woman Dies From Abortion

by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 5/24/13 4:53 PM

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State health regulators have suspended the licenses of several abortion clinics owned by Associates in OB/GYN Care for the second time after an employee with no health care license or certification gave a patient a drug to induce an abortion at the Baltimore facility.

The same employee also performed an ultrasound on the woman, who was found to be 22 weeks pregnant with multiple fetuses, although the employee wasn’t trained in the procedure, according to records released Friday by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. There was no physician at the clinic even though the woman had scheduled an appointment for a May 4 procedure.

The doctor who arrived at the clinic later that day refused to perform the abortion, saying “this facility is not equipped to do this procedure safely,” according to the state records.

The state’s Office of Health Care Quality investigated the facility and suspended its license after receiving an anonymous complaint about the patient’s treatment on May 7. The agency also looked into operations at clinics owned by OB/GYN Care in Frederick, Silver Spring and Cheverly and suspended the licenses of those clinics as well.

The investigation found that it was common practice to administer the drug Misoprostol to induce an abortion in patients 11 weeks or more pregnant even if the patient has not been seen by a doctor and there was no physician at the clinic.

The off the abortion facilities that are a part of the chain saw licenses suspended in March over multiple problems.

Inspections of the abortion clinics revealed they were continuing to violate state health and safety laws after the initial violations that prompted the state investigations in the first place.

The inspections were prompted by a letter from seventeen Maryland House Delegates raising concerns about abortion clinic safety after Jennifer Morbelli. Investigators discovered a second abortion-related patient death had occurred at one of Brigham’s abortion clinics in Baltimore that is located in a residential condominium complex. The woman was said to have had a previous health condition that contributed to her suffering cardiac arrest at the time of the abortion.

According to the Baltimore Sun, “The physician who performed the abortion at Associates in OB/GYN Care LLC on North Calvert Street wasn’t certified in CPR and a defibrillator at the facility did not work, state officials said in a letter Friday to the General Assembly.”

Troy Newman of Operation Rescue, who has been closely following Morbelli’s death and the aftermath, commented on the suspensions.

“Ignoring a health condition that might contraindicate abortion, one of Brigham’s shoddy abortionists proceeded with surgery at a residential condo unit without the necessary certification or emergency equipment required to treat the patient in the event a complication arose. Because of this negligence, he was unable to provide emergency care that could have saved her life. It is beyond belief that the State of Maryland would allow these dangerous Brigham affiliates to continue to operate in the state,” he told LifeNews.

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SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was never a fan of MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” saying it unfairly cast the state in a negative light.

So when Nicole Polizzi, otherwise known as Snooki, got to meet the governor Friday and shake his hand, their exchange was a bit awkward.

Christie and “Jersey Shore” cast members appeared separately on NBC’s “Today” show during filming in Seaside Heights, N.J., to talk about the state’s recovery from Superstorm Sandy. Seaside is where “Jersey Shore” was filmed.

In a later exchange captured on video by the Asbury Park Press (http://on.app.com/ZiTFCx), an unsmiling Snooki told Christie that she hoped he would “start to like us.”

Christie responded, “Well, we’ll do our best.”

After they parted ways, Snooki looked at the camera and said, “He just doesn’t like us.”

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A $100 million mosque under construction outside Washington, D.C. attracted a visit last week from Turkey’s Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

Writer Ryan Mauro notes that Maryland Secretary of State John McDonough was on hand, along with representatives of two Islamist groups, for a ceremony at the mosque’s construction site. “The Turkish American Culture and Civilization Center (TACC) is a project of the government of Turkey” which will serve as a religious center and a place to promote Turkish culture, an article in the Muslim Link said.

But Turkish culture and values under Erdo?an have skewed away from Western alliances and toward Islamists.

Erdo?an has been a consistent advocate for the Hamas government in Gaza and rebuffed Washington’s requests that he cancel a planned visit to meet the Hamas officials next month. Although Hamas rejects any peaceful settlement with Israel, Erdo?an says Hamas must be part of any peace efforts. In making this demand, he has not publicly called on Hamas to renounce terror and accept Israel’s right to exist. “Hamas has to be around the table for peace to emerge in the Middle East,” he said.

In Maryland, Mauro reports, Erdo?an brought the father of a man killed in 2010 on a Turkish flotilla that tried to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza, which was imposed to try to slow the flow of weapons to Hamas. Erdo?an’s government helped facilitate a meeting with the man and Secretary of State John Kerry.

Videos from the confrontation show that violence broke out on the Mavi Marmara after the ship’s passengers attacked Israeli commandos as they tried to enforce the blockade. The boarding followed repeated Israeli warnings to turn back due to the blockade, which even the United Nations determined is legal and proper to keep weapons from reaching Hamas.

“The Turkish government has been quietly spreading its influence in the U.S.,” Mauro writes, and the prime minister’s visit to the Lanham mosque site is a sign of his “desire to increase the Islamist influence in America.”

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Kermit Gosnell Shows Legal Doesn’t Mean Safe When It Comes to Abortion

by Deirdre McQuade | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 5/24/13 6:01 PM

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The abhorrent events at Dr. Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” are, of course, the tip of the iceberg. Both pro-life and self-described pro-choice folks know it. Abortion advocates publicly welcomed his convictions, trying to distance themselves from the brutal reality of late-term abortion. Despite the attention given to his trial and convictions, the underlying issues are much bigger than Gosnell.

Clearly, “legal” does not mean “safe” when it comes to abortion. In addition to the loss of unborn lives, women’s lives were endangered in his ill-equipped, unsanitary facility. His patients were treated worse than animals in many veterinary clinics. Complications and deaths related to abortion occur at other disgusting facilities like his throughout the country.

The case and its aftermath raise many moral questions.  For example, why is it murderous to kill a child at the very point of leaving the womb, but considered legal ‘health care’ while he or she was still in the womb a moment before? That’s effectively class discrimination based on the arbitrary factor of a human being’s location: either inside or outside of his or her mother’s body. The reality is that abortion is not mainstream medicine – indeed, it is not medical care at all, as it treats no ailment but only takes a life.

Moreover, if abortion in the second half of pregnancy is this inhumane, how should we think of earlier abortions? Are they any different morally because the victim is smaller, and less blood winds up on the sheets clipboards? While Dr. Gosnell’s facility was particularly horrific, there’s no medical disinfectant powerful enough to wipe away the evil perpetrated behind abortion clinic doors. Abortion at every stage of development is a crime against the unborn – and an offense against motherhood.

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May the Lord have mercy on Kermit Gosnell, and on all who assisted him in violence against women and their children. Since he was sentenced to life in prison, he now has time to repent from — and express remorse for — his heinous acts. Dare we hope that even he and his staff might become outspoken defenders of life? Think of St. Paul’s conversion from persecuting Christians to devoting his whole life to proclaiming the Gospel to the world! God is merciful, loving and “big” enough to answer the boldest prayers.

In the meantime, let us convert our repulsion at Dr. Gosnell’s crimes into a groundswell of support for both pregnant women and their defenseless children.

LifeNews Note: Deirdre A. McQuade is Assistant Director for Policy Communications at the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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