Four beaten by baseball bat gang
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Four men are beaten by a gang armed with baseball bats in a paramilitary-style attack in north Belfast.
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Justin Verlander shut down the New York Yankees while the Detroit Tigers roughed up Mike Mussina and a couple of relievers in their highest-scoring game this the season.
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The Boston Red Sox are beating up on the National League while the Pittsburgh Pirates keep losing to every team they face.
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Barry Bonds is beat. His legs are aching, he's exhausted and mired in one of his worst slumps ever. Looks like that chase for 755 could take a while.
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The Yankees kept circling the bases, battering Boston's beleaguered pitching staff. By the time the long, long night ended with a devastating 19-8 rout over the Red Sox, the dreaded New Yorkers were just one game away from a shocking sweep.
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Barry Bonds was beaten by Randy Johnson in the race for baseball's latest milestone moment.
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After being shut out on consecutive nights, Washington's bats come alive to throttle the Los Angeles Dodgers, 11-4, on Thursday night.
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One by one, the St. Louis Cardinals have honored their departed World Series players and then gotten beat by them.
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BOSTON -- They smart-bombed the New York Yankees in four consecutive and stunning games, exposing George Steinbrenner&#39;s mercenaries as a collection of high-priced misfits instead of cohesive champions.
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The head of a crime tipsters group was attacked by a man with a baseball bat and told to drop a lawsuit against a philanthropist over an unpaid reward, the man's attorney said Monday.
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La gang dell'ariete, per difendersi anche mazza da baseball
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The Boston Red Sox were beating up on pitchers &#151; until they ran into Gil Meche.
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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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ARLINGTON, Texas The Texas Rangers made five errors in a 7-to-4 loss to the Chicago White Sox. Carl Everett homered for the Sox, who won their fourth straight.
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The top four hitters in the Sox lineup last night - Dustin Pedroia , Kevin Youkilis , David Ortiz , and Manny Ram&#xED;rez - combined to go 7 for 14 with 4 runs, 6 RBIs, and 4 extra-base hits (doubles by Pedroia and Ram&#xED;rez and a triple and home run by Youkilis).
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The Mets dropped their fourth consecutive game last night, a 6-3 defeat in 10 innings against the Philadelphia Phillies at Shea Stadium.
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BOSTON Go figure this World Series. An old maxim in baseball is you always give away more runs with shoddy defense than you gain with torrid bats.