[TS] Sports of The Times: Errant Pitch by Wang Jolts Red Sox Awake
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In walloping the Yankees 10-1 on Saturday, the Red Sox appear to have restored the oomph to their season.
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The Boston Red Sox call themselves idiots &#151; too stupid to realize that they aren't supposed be doing this.
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Break up the Red Sox. A similar cry could be heard from beaten rivals when the Yankees dominated the World Series half a century ago. Now that the Olde Towne Team has won its second October Classic in four years, how many of last night's champagne-spattered champions will be back next spring?
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They play a mile high and keep their baseballs in a humidor. They were tossing snowballs during practice this week. Their entire payroll is not much more than what the Red Sox paid for the privilege of eating sushi with Daisuke Matsuzaka. And they're on an odds-defying run that would have made a billionaire out of a Vegas dice-roller.
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If there are aspects of Craig Hansen's sidetracked career that resemble a waking nightmare, you should know that it has been far worse when the Red Sox reliever was sleeping. Just ask any of his roommates in the last few years.
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Red Sox pitcher bounces back from September slump to pitch seven strong innings and put the Angels in an 0-2 hole. By John Nadel. Pedro Martinez was awful at the end of the regular season.
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It was an innocent enough looking roller. But, almost immediately, you sensed something weird was going to happen to the Red Sox at a critical juncture of a game they could not afford to lose.
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Doug Mientkiewicz has the ball . The Red Sox want it back. Stay tuned. Certainly you know which ball we're talking about. By now you've seen the video a couple million times.
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This article was reported by Lee Jenkins, Juliet Macur and Bill Pennington and written by Mr. Jenkins. During a year that baseball would like to forget, the scene was set for its free fall.
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Bostonâs victory in Game 2 of the World Series turned, in part, because of one of those understated, blink-and-itâs-gone moments.
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It was a pinch-me morning. Did the Boston Red Sox really win the World Series or was it all a sweet dream? Opened the shades, let in the sunlight, blinked at red, gold and orange leaves shimmering against a clear blue sky. It seemed too perfect, too real.
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Remember when there was genuine concern about the Red Sox' lineup? Remember when folks were legitimately fretting that this team couldn't hit?
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What is it about Red Sox players hitting the foul pole late at night to win World Series games? At 11:56 last night, Sox second baseman Mark Bellhorn clanged
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Curt Schilling willed away the pain and the Boston Red Sox got the benefit of two reversed calls to move within one win of the most shocking comeback in baseball postseason history.
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The pitching coach who has been in professional baseball for 40 years thought the ball was too low. The relief pitcher who has been on major league mounds for more than a decade feared it would bounce on the plate.
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Forget all the nonsense in the stands. The baseball is what matters. Let the Red Sox fans jeer Alex Rodriguez. Let them wear the blond wings and scream "Mine!" every time a pop fly is hit in his direction and rhythmically chant "A-Rod, A-Rod" when he's facing Jonathan Papelbon with two away and an 0-2 count in the ninth inning ...
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Perilously close to being on the wrong side of a 1986 ALCS-in-reverse, the Red Sox got their biggest home run of the year from their most clutch performer of the past two seasons.