A's, Twins meet in moneyball clash
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The luggage was loaded for New York, where Minnesota was presumably headed until the conclusion of a chaotic, emotional week left the Twins celebrating their AL Central championship Sunday.
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The New York Yankees beat the Twins 6-to-5 Saturday to advance to the AL Championship. They will play the Boston Red Sox. Ruben Sierra hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning.
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After four consecutive failures in division series from 2000-3, the Oakland A's finally had a chance to celebrate when they beat the Twins 8-3 to complete a three-game sweep.
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They once again escaped with a victory in a game that had the same type of tension that marked the last time they played at Network Associates Coliseum, the home of the always formidable Oakland Athletics.
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The Minnesota Twins insisted they were a far better team than the one steamrolled out of last year's division series by the New York Yankees. And they might have been.
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(Sports Network) - The Minnesota Twins try to get back on the winning track when they conclude their three-game set with the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
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The Minnesota Twins keep winning despite a rash of injuries in their outfield. The New York Yankees hope Alex Rodriguez doesn&#039;t become their latest injured All-Star.
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Bartolo Colon pitched seven shutout  innings and Alfredo Amezaga hit a grand slam home run as the  Anaheim Angels trounced the Oakland Athletics 10-0 in their  American League West showdown series opener Friday.
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Barry Bonds and Albert Pujols: The aging slugger against his heir apparent.
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(Sports Network) - Two of the top teams in the American League tangle in a possible American League Division Series preview tonight, as the West-leading Oakland Athletics host the wild card-leading Boston Red Sox for the first of a three-game set at the
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SAN FRANCISCO The legal battle over who is the real owner of Barry Bonds&#39; 700th home run ball begins this morning in Superior Court.
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There's a three-team race in the AL Central, and the Minnesota Twins are surging toward the lead with three weeks left in the regular season.
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Pedro Martinez asked Daddy for money yesterday. The free agent righty had a surprise meeting with George Steinbrenner and his Tampa posse of executives at Legends Field.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - The Oakland Athletics are used to pressure-packed pennant races...
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The western divisions in both leagues in Major League Baseball have pennant races that are going right down to the wire. In a must win game for Anaheim, the Angels beat Oakland 6-2 to move within one game of the A&#39;s in the AL West.
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The Oakland Athletics swept away years of first-round futility, then partied hard enough to make up for all those missed chances and then some. Milton Bradley homered and threw out Torii Hunter in a disputed play at the plate as the A's snapped a stretch of nine straight losses in potential playoff clinchers, beating Minnesota 8-3 Friday to reach the ALCS for the first time in 14 years.
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The Twins lost a chance to leave town with two wins when the Yankees battled back with two runs in the bottom of the 12th in a 7-6 loss in Game 2 of the American League Division Series on Wednesday.