Shaggy band of ballplayers winks at the impossible
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In the wee hours of last Sunday morning, when the nation&#39;s collective clicker had long since abandoned the Yankees-Red Sox debacle
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Josh Beckett, Dustin Pedroia and the Boston Red Sox were revved up and ready. Not so the Colorado Rockies, who showed up in Beantown looking rusty not rested.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - The ball beeped, the bases buzzed and the fans didn't cheer in this version of the national pastime. Four teams of blind baseball players turned out Saturday for a round-robin tournament on Long Island.
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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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When you&#39;re part of a team that has just captured its first World Series title in 86 years, it&#39;s easy to get a little too caught up in the moment.
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Baseball never addresses any problem until the sport is cornered by a screaming mob and can&#39;t find a way to escape doing the obvious.
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Few teams have endured more battering and embarrassment than have the 2007 Orioles yet Dave Trembley's squad is still playing hard.
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The Yankees enter another postseason with such a star-studded lineup that only their own insecurities or a strong pitching staff can derail them.
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Hardly anyone in baseball this season has made routine defense look, well, routine, like the Colorado Rockies and the Boston Red Sox.
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The Houston Astros, down two games to none heading into Game 3 against the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series, knew they could absolutely not
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With their eyes set squarely on the prize, there was no indication from the Red Sox yesterday that they were leading the 100th World Series, 2-0, needing only
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The Boston Red Sox might try to defend their World Series with an even wackier group than the self-proclaimed &quot;bunch of idiots&quot; that ended the franchise&#39;s 86-year dynasty of disappointment.
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Baseball is about to be offered some much-needed help pulling its head out of the sand.
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NEW YORK - The way the Boston Red Sox are playing these days, nothing seems to be able to stop them. Not even Mariano Rivera...
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HOUSTON -- Millions of people around the world are watching baseball's playoffs, some so invested and otherwise enthralled that they'll watch every pitch. As of yesterday morning, four teams were still in the hunt for the World Series, making for four high-end lineups with eyes fixed on bleached-white horsehide and coarse red seams.
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Curt Schilling and the pitchers are clicking. Little Mark Bellhorn and the hitters are delivering. Manager Terry Francona is making all the right moves. And despite a defense that can't quite seem to catch the ball, the Boston Red Sox are halfway to capturing something that's slipped just out of reach since 1918 &#151; the World Series trophy.
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The Red Sox appear to be the center of the baseball universe.