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The "six" is the $6-million club option the Blue Jays hold on his services for 2015.BERLIN -- Jose Paolo Guerreros late strike was enough to give Hamburger SV a 1-0 win at Cologne and overtake the home side for 10th place in the Bundesliga on Sunday. Guerrero scored in the 88th minute after Mladen Petric sent the ball over the Cologne defence for the Peru striker to shrug off a defender and chip goalkeeper Michael Rensing from a tight angle. Both sides had looked unlikely to score before that, with off-field action claiming most of the attention after Cologne fined injured striker Lukas Podolski for telling a newspaper "much was promised and little delivered" at the club. Colognes Martin Lanig had the ball in the net in the 62nd, but the midfielders celebrations were short-lived as his headed goal was ruled out for offside. 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