Red Sox ace Beckett expects Rockies will be ready
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Red Sox ace Josh Beckett expects the best from Colorado's batters despite an eight-day layoff for the National League champions that threatens to cool off the red-hot Rockies for the World Series starting on Wednesday.
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Fenway Park erupted last night at the sight of Josh Beckett walking to the bullpen in the middle of the second inning. With the Red Sox breaking open a tight game by scoring eight times in their last two at-bats, Red Sox manager Terry Francona never had to summon him during the game. But Beckett still got last call when ...
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Now that they know their opponent, the Rox are ready to take on the Sox. "We're under the radar. It's being billed as a David and Goliath situation. But that's OK," Colorado Rockies reliever Matt Herges said Monday. "We're as confident as anybody, we're as hot as anybody. We think we're as good as anybody."
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BOSTON -- The Red Sox are hoping to rebound Wednesday in New York as they take on the Yankees in Game 2 of their championship series.
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Garrett Atkins goes 3-for-5 with a grand slam and Josh Beckett loses for the first time of 2007 as the Colorado Rockies beat the Boston Red Sox, 7-1.
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DENVER - Maybe after tonight he can just pitch. Red Sox lefthander Jon Lester sat down for the standard day-before interview at Coors Field yesterday afternoon. He had to know what was coming. He had to know there were going to be a lot of questions about the cancer.
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The World Series shifts to Colorado for Game Three on Saturday, a move the Rockies hope will also bring a shift in momentum as they trail the Boston Red Sox 2-0 in the best-of-seven Major League Baseball championship.
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The Skinny: Beckett is facing the Padres for the first time in San Diego. In two career starts in Florida, Beckett is 2-0 against the Padres with a 1.93 ERA.
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The Red Sox were already braced for the likelihood that Randy Johnson would wind up in pinstripes, a coup the Yankees were on the verge of pulling off last night in a three-team deal with the Diamondbacks and Dodgers, according to a report in Newsday.
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Tim Wakefield will start Game 1 of the World Series on Saturday for Boston after playing a key relief role for the Red Sox in the AL championship series.
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A big Texan with a blistering fastball, Boston Red Sox's Josh Beckett hurled himself into an elite group on Wednesday when he became only the third pitcher to strike out at least four batters to start a World Series.
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The Red Sox live. More specifically, they live off Josh Beckett.
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Even now, after the Colorado Rockies' amazing run of 21 wins in 22 games, many fans don't know this black-and-purple clad club of Tulowitzkis and Torrealbas. Maybe that changes this week. Come Wednesday night, the Rockies will be on baseball's biggest stage, playing the Boston Red Sox in the World Series opener.
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The guys at the top of a Major League rotation are competitors, none more so than Josh Beckett whose Game 1 performance is just the latest in a dominant postseason career.
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Veteran umpire Ed Montague will call balls and strikes in Game 1 of the World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox on Saturday.
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The World Series shifts to Colorado for  Game Three on Saturday, a move the Rockies hope will also bring  a shift in momentum as they trail the Boston Red Sox 2-0 in the  best-of-seven Major League Baseball championship.
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Josh Beckett strikes out nine and the Red Sox finish with 17 hits in what becomes a stunningly thorough 13-1 blowout of the Rockies in World Series opener.