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side down since the final out of the crazy World Series last October.
• Five no-hitters, including two perfect games. A four-home run night by Josh Hamilton. Pittsburgh and Washington together in first place for the first time. Philadelphia in the cellar. Cliff Lee winless until his 14th start.
• "Seeing what's going on here, it's fun to be a part of it," A.J. Burnett said after improving to 10-2 as the Pirates routed the San Francisco Giants and Tim Lincecum 13-2 Sunday.
• If the season ended now, the first year of expanded playoffs would open with Baltimore at the Los Angeles Angels for the one-game AL wild card, with the winner hosting the Yankees in the division series opener. The Chicago White Sox would host two-time AL champ Texas in the other best-of-5 series -- which for one year only starts at the team with the lesser regular-season record.
• In the NL, Cincinnati would host Atlanta for the wild card, with the winner hosting the Nationals -- a franchise whose only postseason appearance was as the Montreal Expos in 1981. The Pirates, out of the postseason since Francisco Cabrera's two-out, two-run hit for Atlanta in 1992, would host the post-Frank McCourt Los Angeles Dodgers.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 9, 1962, the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles began exhibiting pop artist Andy Warhol's now-famous set of 32 paintings of Campbell's soup cans.
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• On this date:
• In 1540, England's King Henry VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.
• In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.
• In 1816, Argentina declared independence from Spain.
• In 1850, the 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, died after serving only 16 months of his term. (He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore.)
• In 1896, William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous "cross of gold" speech at

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