2003 Loss Just a Setback for Red Sox
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Even in the pain of last year's collapse, Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein was confident Boston will someday win the World Series.
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ne bad breaking ball did in the Yankees yesterday. Usually, one mistake does not cost them so dearly, but the Yankees are not usually scrounging for hits either.
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Five outs -- five measly outs. That&#39;s how close the Boston Red Sox came to going to the World Series last year and perhaps ending an 85-year championship drought.
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Believe it, New England -- the Boston Red Sox are in the World Series. And they got there with the most unbelievable comeback of all, with four sweet swings after decades of defeat, shaming the dreaded New York Yankees.
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In order to get back in this series with the Yankees, the Red Sox don't need divine intervention or a roster turnover. They need base runners.
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The Red Sox lost for the first time in 11 games, falling to the Texas Rangers, 8-6, yesterday and missing a chance to pull within 1 1/2 games of the Yankees in the AL East.
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The Red Sox lose back-to-back games for the first time in more than five weeks, after a 5-to-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Rookie Scott Kazmir outpitched Pedro Martinez to lead Tampa Bay.
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Don't be shocked . . . if the Red Sox lose.
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They were the most dismal of losses, a pair of setbacks against Carolina that kept the Bucs from reaching the 2003 playoffs. They couldn&#39;t make a simple extra point in the first one.
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Tim Jarrett understands what I'm saying. What a great Superbowl, and what an opportunity for Boston sports fans to learn the value in losing. What? Value in losing? You bet.  It wasn't that long ago when Boston was one of the best cities in the USA for sports precisely because Boston teams were such spectacular losers. I'll never forget the misery of the Dowbrigade after the Red Sox lost something (or did they win, I forget). They must have lost because he swore he'd never let them break his heart again the way they had for his whole life (he's about my age). Losing teaches you that there's more to life than winning, and that's the best lesson possible and it's the one lesson you keep needing to learn over and over until you lose everything, which like it or not is what we all do in the end. People write poetry about losing, great music is composed about lost causes. Who writes an ode to winning? They're too busy getting drunk or getting laid.  Never have I loved a team more or felt more kinship with my fellow fans than when our team goes down in flames after a season of great ups and downs. No doubt there are no smiles or tears of joy in Boston today. But there is hope. And that, even when you win, is all that's left after a great season.
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Boston beat Detroit 6-1, ending a stretch of 26 games -- 23 against teams below .500 at the time of the game -- in which the Red Sox won 20.
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To paraphrase an old saying, when you keep going back to the bullpen, eventually it&#39;s going to come up dry. That&#39;s what happened to the Red Sox on Thursday night, when
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The struggling New York Yankees lost 11-6 to the Red Sox on Saturday and found out they would not be getting Roger Clemens back as quickly as they had planned.
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Now that the winning streak is over, the truth can finally be told: The Red Sox [stats, schedule] lost the best way they possibly could last night.
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The Red Sox lose for the first time in 11 games, falling to the Rangers 8-6 Saturday and missing a chance to pull within 1 1/2 games of the Yankees in the AL East.
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PITTSBURGH, United States : The Patriots finally found out what it is like to lose again as the baseball Boston Red Sox seemed to have used up all of New England&#39;s positive karma with a World Series sweep.
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Baseball lost nearly a century&#39;s worth of lore when the Boston Red Sox retired the Curse of the Bambino on Wednesday night. The curse was a crock, of course, and the elegant suffering of Boston fans surpassed its sell-by date decades ago.