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Slugger collects $5K 'bounty' for walk-off home run

Baseball's new Bountygate is a good deal tamer than what's going on in the NFL. When Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon blew his first save of the season, he came up with a plan to salvage something as his teammates prepared to hit in the bottom of the ninth against Jake McGee of the Rays. "Whoever walks this guy off, I'll give him five grand," Papelbon told them. So Jim Thome promptly swatted one into the left field seats for a 7-6 Phillies victory. "I didn't think Jim would do it right off the bat," Papelbon said. He should have -- the shot made Thome the all-time leader in walk-off home runs. Now, what will the commissioner say?

Slugger collects $5K 'bounty' for walk-off home run

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