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TORONTO – Jose Bautista is nearing a return to the Blue Jays lineup and pinch hit in the sixth inning of Sundays series finale against the White Sox. Batting for Dioner Navarro with runners on the corners and the Jays down 2-0 at the time, Bautista grounded out to end the inning. Fans who arrived to watch batting practice were treated to Bautistas first public testing of his injured left hamstring. He was running sprints in the outfield; he estimated at about 50 to 60-percent effort and admitted to feeling some pain, which he said he expected. Bautista will work out on Mondays off day and is hopeful of being in the starting lineup on Tuesday when the Jays play a Canada Day matinee against the Brewers. He hasnt been in the starting lineup since removing himself in the third inning of the June 22 loss in Cincinnati. "You know, its huge," said Bautista of avoiding the disabled list. Then he offered a precautionary thought: "Obviously thats still not in the plans but you never know how things are going to respond," said Bautista. "I just want to make it clear that I can get back into playing and because theres a previous injury there anything can happen. Im not trying to jinx it or anything but thats just reality." Bautista has been hitting in the underneath batting cage. "I feel like hitting is much easier right now than running," he said. While its superfluous to suggest the Blue Jays miss Bautista when hes not in the lineup the matter became more pronounced as the club faced three Chicago lefthanders over the weekend. After two home games versus Milwaukee, against right-handed starters, the Jays kick off their next road trip with four games in Oakland. The As will throw three left-handers at the Blue Jays in that series. Bautistas done serious damage to southpaws this year. Seven of his 15 home runs have been hit off of lefties. Hes accomplished that in only 57 at-bats. His on-base plus slugging percentage sits at an otherworldly 1.329. Combine Bautistas absence with the predominantly right-handed lineup manager John Gibbons has played this weekend, featuring Triple-A call ups Brad Glenn and Darin Mastroianni, and offence has been in relatively short supply. Left-handed hitters Adam Lind and Colby Rasmus, when theyve played, have struggled as the numbers would suggest they would. Bautista isnt committing to whether hell be Tuesdays designated hitter or take his usual spot in right field. "If I come in and feel 100-percent and great and go out on the field and play defence and I could not feel 100-percent and ask to DH instead of playing the field," said Bautista. "It all depends on how I feel on Tuesday and I wont know that until Tuesday." If Bautistas hamstring limits him to the designated hitters role, that likely removes Adam Lind from the Canada Day starting lineup. 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Peter Moylan Jersey .C. -- Panthers offensive tackle Jordan Gross is saying goodbye to the NFL after 11 seasons.LOS ANGELES, Calif. - After a bitter seven-game playoff series last spring and two overtime nail-biters in the past four days, the Los Angeles Kings rivalry with the Anaheim Ducks has never been more intriguing.Jarret Stoll added more flavour to the Freeway Faceoff with a big game-winner for the defending Stanley Cup champions.Stoll scored his first goal of the season 2:19 into overtime, and the Kings rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Ducks on Saturday.Stoll tapped a slow-sliding puck under Frederik Andersen in the waning seconds of a power play, capping the Los Angeles much-needed comeback in the Southern California clubs second entertaining meeting of the week.The Kings have won just three of their past 10 games overall, but their 37-shot effort against Andersen culminated with Justin Williams driving to the net and Stoll finishing it off.A lot of times our team doesnt score the pretty goals, said Stoll, who hadnt scored an overtime goal since Nov. 17, 2005. We grind it out, and we were lucky to get that one. ... We pushed a little harder today.Tyler Toffoli scored a short-handed goal, Jonathan Quick made 27 saves and Anze Kopitar scored the tying power-play goal midway through the third period for the Kings, who got a boost from the intensity in this local derby.We came out with a little physicality, Kopitar said. The guys were hitting people, so the physical presence was definitely there. We tightened it up defensively, and thats what we needed to do.Emerson Etem and Ryan Kesler scored for the Ducks, who beat Los Angeles 6-5 in a shootout on Wednesday.Andersen, who got chased early in the clubs first meeting Wednesday, made 34 saves in the Ducks club-record fifth straight overtime game.Anaheim has earned points in seven straight games, but its five-game regular-season winning streak against Los Angeles ended after Hampus Lindholm got a sketchy hooking penalty 23 seconds into overtime. The Ducks also didnt like the goalie interference penalty against captain Ryan Getzlaf leading to Kopitars goal.ddddddddddddIts two good teams playing hard, and you wish it didnt have to go like that, Getzlaf said. Were battling through a lot of injuries. Weve got some big guys out of our lineup, so when we get some points every night, its a positive.Corey Perry missed his fifth straight game and Francois Beauchemin sat out his third straight game for Anaheim while recovering from mumps.Defenceman Alec Martinez sat out for Los Angeles after injuring his finger blocking a shot in Thursdays loss to Dallas. Robyn Regehr returned from a three-game absence for the Kings injury-plagued defence, which again relied on Drew Doughty to play more than half of the game.After a scoreless first period, Etem put the Ducks ahead with a second-effort backhand in front of Quick for just his second goal of the season.Toffoli evened it moments later with his NHL-leading fourth short-handed goal of the young season.The Ducks jumped back ahead late in the second when Bryan Allen made a sharp cross-ice pass to Kesler for his sixth goal with his new team. Kesler had scored just one goal in the previous four weeks before getting three more in two games against the Kings.After Getzlafs penalty for running into Quick, Kopitar evened it with a big shot through traffic late in a sharp power play. The Kings hadnt scored on their previous 18 power-play chances over seven games since Nov. 2.They had more shots, but we had better scoring chances, Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau said. Five-on-five, I thought we outplayed them. I thought we were right there, every moment of the game.NOTES: Anaheim hadnt lost a day game since April 7, 2012, at Calgary. ... Devante Smith-Pelly sat out with an upper-body injury after missing the Ducks past two practices. Chris Wagner played 7:08 after he was recalled from Anaheims AHL affiliate in Norfolk. ... Toffoli has played 18 games this season. He is the fastest player to four short-handed goals since Philadelphias Simon Gagne scored four in his first 15 games in the 2008-09 season. ' ' '