The first baseman didn't play until July last year while recovering from a torn left Achilles tendon sustained in the Phillies' final game of the 2011 playoffs.

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"It really doesn't matter, " first baseman Ike Davis said.

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"Those guys are a good team over there, they just haven't hit their stride, " Yankees first baseman Lyle Overbay said.

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His loss leaves the U.S. team scrambling for another first baseman, and Torre said he wasn't sure whether a replacement will be on hand for an exhibition game Wednesday against Colorado.

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Jacoby Ellsbury had a sharp two-run infield single that first baseman Lyle Overbay, picked up off waivers only a week ago, couldn't handle for his third hit.

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That most certainly isn't the Cubs, who are looking to build on their solid young nucleus of shortstop Starlin Castro, first baseman Anthony Rizzo and Gold Glove second baseman Darwin Barney.

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