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A look at whats happening all around the majors Thursday:---BEST OF THE BESTBaltimore goes for a three-game sweep of visiting Texas in a series between first-place teams. The AL East-leading Orioles are 39-16 at home, the top mark in the majors. Left-hander Wade Miley (7-8, 4.98 ERA) makes his Baltimore debut after he was obtained Sunday in a trade with Seattle. A.J. Griffin (4-1, 3.99) faces the Orioles for the first time since 2013. AL West-leading Texas is 9-4 in his 13 starts.GETTING HEALTHYJordan Zimmermann (9-4) comes off the disabled list from a neck injury to pitch against the White Sox as host Detroit seeks its ninth straight victory. And teammate J.D. Martinez is expected to make his first start since missing seven weeks with a broken elbow. Martinez returned with a bang Wednesday night in a 2-1 win, breaking an eighth-inning tie with a pinch-hit homer off Chris Sale on the first pitch the slugger had faced since mid-June. Martinezs timely drive helped the streaking Tigers move within two games of first-place Cleveland in the AL Central.HELP WANTEDMike Napoli has homered in five straight games for Cleveland, matching Chris Davis and Jay Bruce for the longest streak in the majors this season. But the Indians have been wasting Napolis power surge lately, losing three consecutive home games to Minnesota while getting outscored 35-16. The last-place Twins are 8-4 against the AL Central leaders this year and will go for a four-game sweep when left-hander Hector Santiago, acquired from the Angels at the trade deadline, makes his Minnesota debut in the series finale. Mike Clevinger will be called up from Triple-A Columbus to start for Cleveland.NEW GIANTLeft-hander Matt Moore makes his first start for the San Francisco Giants in Philadelphia. The skidding NL West leaders acquired Moore from Tampa Bay for infielder Matt Duffy and two minor leaguers to help get back on track. Moores arrival has bumped veteran right-hander Jake Peavy to the bullpen.NOTHING FREECardinals pitcher Mike Leake (8-8) has a streak on the line when he faces his former Reds team for the second time. Leake hasnt walked a batter in his last 30 innings spanning five starts, a career best. Its the longest active streak in the majors and the second-longest this season behind Matt Shoemakers 30 1/3 innings without a walk for the Angels.ICHIRO UPDATEIchiro Suzuki lined out softly to shortstop as a pinch-hitter Wednesday during Miamis loss to the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. He remained two hits shy of 3,000. Suzuki and the Marlins are off Thursday before opening a three-game series at Colorado on Friday night. John Carney Jersey . -- Jakob Silfverberg is making himself right at home with the Anaheim Ducks, scoring four goals in his first four games. Chuck Muncie Jersey . I cant pinpoint a date, but I do remember a player from my youth. Brian Downing was with the Chicago White Sox at a time when I listened to every game I possibly could on the radio. That particular season the late great Harry Caray was calling the White Sox games. http://www.customsaintsjersey.com/custom-roman-harper-jersey-large-1412e.html ., for the next three years with the signings on Monday of Daryl Townsend and Michael Carter. LeCharles Bentley Jersey . There are some early surprises in the race for the Hart Trophy, but two of the contenders are the leagues biggest stars over the past decade. There are many more players in contention for the awards than just the three that Ive named, and a good or bad week can easily alter the landscape, but through the first 20 or so games of the NHL season, this is how the awards races look to me. Archie Manning Jersey . Ferrer, trying to win his fourth title on Mexican soil, will next play South Africas Kevin Anderson, who eliminated American Sam Querrey,7-6 (2), 6-4. Also Wednesday, Gilles Simon (6) of France beat Donald Young of the United States 6-4, 6-3, Ukraines Alexandr Dolgopolov downed Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-4 and Croatias Ivo Karlovic defeated Dudi Sela of Israel 7-6 (4), 6-2. Rio 2016s organisers have been forced to resort to Plan C for the marathon swimming event which starts on Monday.Britains Keri-Anne Payne and her 25 competitors will begin the 10-kilometre swim from Fort Copacabana by walking into the water from the beach and then starting in a line.This is because the original starting pontoon was swept away in the waves and ended up on the beach on Friday night, and organisers have been unable to secure their replacement pontoon over the weekend.Given the uncertainty, world swimmings ggoverning body FINA asked Rio 2016 to make the change on Sunday afternoon.ddddddddddddStarting from the beach is what Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada described on Saturday as Plan C, when he said even the best laid plans are vulnerable to acts of God and nature.The 28-year-old Payne won a silver medal in the first Olympic open-water event in Beijing but finished an agonising fourth in London. ' ' '