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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while trying not to get our hopes up over Pirate wins ahead of the trade deadline.
Happy birthday today to LaMarcus Aldridge, Adam Morrison, Fedor Tyutin, Rick Ankiel, Scott Walker and Vitali Klitschko. On this date in 1991 Cal Ripken Jr. became the Iron Man playing his 1500th straight game. This game was 2 hours and 17 minutes long! IMAGINE! (Actually we can imagine, we're old and remember fast games.)
Daily brain workout
Name every tennis player with at least eight major tournament wins in our 'No one is betterer than Roger Federer' quiz.
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Around the league
When the game is bad, all we have are snacks
In other news, the SNY booth lost Keith Hernandez for a while because he went to get a pretzel, in case you're wondering how the Mets are.
— Kate Feldman (@kateefeldman) July 19, 2017
Have a good Wednesday, everyone. Stay hungry. Especially you, Mr. Hernandez.
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