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DENVER -- The Colorado Rockies have agreed to terms with Rafael Betancourt on a minor league deal, the team announced via Twitter. Betancourt is recovering from Tommy John surgery. Hes been working out at the Rockies spring training facilities in Arizona with hopes of returning to the team at some point this year. Betancourt was 2-5 with a 4.08 ERA and 16 saves for the Rockies last season before tearing a ligament in his pitching elbow. Ecco Shoes On Sale Australia . After rookie right-hander Alex Colome excelled in a 5-2 victory in the opener, the Rays fell to Chris Tillman and the Orioles 4-1 on Friday night. Cheap Ecco Shoes Australia . He was still a kid, going into his senior year of high school. Thursday, the point guard stood in front of a couple dozen members of the media and spoke with poise about how much hed grown since then, and how hes ready for the next level. http://www.cheapeccoaustralia.com/ . George Hill had 13 points and seven rebounds for the Pacers, who stayed atop the overall NBA standings despite losing twice on their West Coast trip. Los Angeles kept it close into the second half before the Pacers finished an easy win over the injury-riddled Lakers, who have lost five straight. Ecco Shoes Australia Wholesale . -- The Orlando Magic finally are showing the patience in critical moments that coach Jacque Vaughn has been waiting for all season. Ecco Shoes Wholesale . After missing 20 games as a rookie a year ago, Valanciunas - like the Raptors as a whole - has been fortunate to be in good health this season. As he spoke about it, the Raptors sophomore centre scanned the room for wood to knock on. "It is disappointing because we lost today so thats the worst part of the day," said Valanciunas, who left Tuesdays game with a lower-back sprain in the third quarter, missing the rest of Torontos 118-113 overtime defeat at the hands of the Hawks.WASHINGTON - During a season in which theyve already gone through two coaches and won fewer games than any team in the league, the Edmonton Oilers entered the All-Star break with a victory to savour.Teddy Purcell scored the decisive goal in a shootout after Edmonton rallied from a two-goal deficit late in regulation, and the Oilers defeated Washington 5-4 Tuesday night to end the Capitals seven-game home winning streak.Purcell beat goaltender Braden Holtby in the fourth round of the shootout after Edmontons Viktor Fasth stopped Eric Fehr.The victory was the 12th in 47 games for Edmonton and only the fourth on the road. After defeating Florida in a shootout on Saturday, the Oilers have a week to sit on their two-game winning streak.We can definitely take some positives from this, coach Todd Nelson said. It was a good character win. The guys stuck with it.The Capitals, on the other hand, enter the break mired in a three-game skid after blowing a late lead at home against a team that has endured losing streaks of seven and nine games.I said to the guys, Maybe we dont make the playoffs, coach Barry Trotz said. There are some good teams out there.Washington has earned at least a point in 19 of its last 22 games. But that was of little consolation in a sombre locker room.Its just disappointing, defenceman Brooks Orpik said. Its the last-place team in the league, but its pretty obvious that any team can beat any team in this league if theyre fully committed.Alex Ovechkin scored twice in the opening 14 minutes for the Capitals, who held leads of 2-0, 3-1 and 4-2 before the Oilers made one final push during the final five minutes of regulation.Purcell scored at 15:49 to make it 4-3, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins tied it with a wrist shot at 18:53 after Fasth vacated the net for an extra skater.Derek Roy andd Nikita Nikitin also scored in regulation for Edmonton.ddddddddddddThere were a couple of times in the second (period) that I think we were thinking that theres no chance we should even be in this game, Purcell said. We hung around and found a way.Ovechkin has five goals in his last three games and 27 for the season. It was his seventh multi-goal game of the season and 92nd of his career, one short of the franchise record held by Peter Bondra.Ovechkin would have felt a lot better about that if his two strikes came in a winning effort.We had to forget about it and get ready for the most important time of the season, he said.Ovechkin put Washington up 1-0 at 1:48 of the first period, firing a slap shot over Fasths left shoulder during a delayed penalty.Ovechkin scored again at 13:58 following an interference call on Edmontons Jeff Petry. The slap shot, fired from the left circle, smashed the goalie camera that hangs from the back of the net.Held to one shot on goal over the first 14 minutes, the Oilers closed to 2-1 when Roy scored at 14:51.Jay Beagle restored the two-goal cushion at 17:34 when he deflected a shot by John Carlson into the net. It was Beagles seventh goal of the season, a new career high.Nikitin got a power-play goal at 19:56 of the second period, firing a lengthy slap shot just three seconds after Matt Niskanen was sent to the penalty box for kneeing Roy.Nicklas Backstrom made it 4-2 at 6:38 of the third period, deflecting a shot by Carlson past Fasth.The lead wouldnt last.Theres a point we gave away, Trotz said.Notes: Edmonton swept the season series, 2-0, with its first win in Washington since 2009. ... Carlson has 21 points in his last 25 games. ... Fasth improved to 4-10-2. ... Mike Green had two assists for Washington and has four in his last three games. ' ' '