• Longtime major-league umpire Shag Crawford, patriarch of a family of prominent sports officials, died Wednesday. He was 90.
Jerry Crawford said his father died at an assisted-living facility in suburban Philadelphia. Jerry Crawford became a big-league umpire in the mid-1970s, around the time his brother, Joey, became an NBA official.
Born Henry Charles Crawford, Shag called more than 3,000 games as a National League umpire from 1956 to 1975. He worked the World Series three times, the NL championship series twice and handled three All-Star Games.
Crawford, one of the founders of the umpires' union, ended his active career in 1975 after getting into a dispute with baseball over the rotation of umpires in the World Series.
• Florida Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez sat out one game because of a hamstring injury, and missed most of two others, yet was still named the National League Player of the Week.
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Ramirez landed the honor by going 12 for 23 with three home runs on the Marlins' trip to San Diego and Los Angeles.
Ramirez was injured on the first game of the trip. But he came off the bench the next night to spark a Marlins' comeback with a pinch-hit home run. He also hit two homers and drove in the game-deciding run in the 10th inning with a bunt single against the Dodgers on Friday, and went 4 for 4.
• Astros right-hander Brad Lidge threw a perfect inning in a rehab outing for Double-A Corpus Christi on Wednesday night. Lidge has been on the DL since June 20 with a strained left oblique.
— Wire reports
