Top of AL Central continues to cruise
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The Minnesota Twins are baseball&#039;s hottest team, winners of eight straight and 18 of 20. Yet they&#039;re still struggling to make up ground in the American League Central.
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ark Redman pitched seven strong innings for his 10th victory and Billy McMillon homered to lead the Oakland Athletics past the White Sox, 4-2, in Chicago yesterday.
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Taking two of three from the Los Angeles Angels, the Oakland Athletics opened a 1 1/2-game lead in an AL West race that has seen all four teams stay in contention going into the final two months.
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An exhausting day at Fenway Park ensured that the New York Yankees will leave Boston on top of the AL East. The Yankees will try to add to their division lead when they continue their five-game series against the Boston Red Sox on Saturday afternoon.
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Oakland, Anaheim and Texas are still battling with a week to go for what is likely to be the final spot in the AL playoffs. With Minnesota having clinched its third consecutive AL Central title, the New York Yankees heading toward a seventh straight first-place finish in the AL East and Boston comfortably ahead in the wild-card race, the West figures to attract the most interest in the final week of the regular season.
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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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BRONX, New York (Ticker) -- Weather permitting, the Boston Red Sox will attempt to take another bite out of the New York Yankees&#39; lead in the American League East Division standings when the two teams continue a three-game series Saturday.
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The pirates' booty keeps piling up at a record pace.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Ichiro Suzuki had two hits on Tuesday night to move within three of tying the single-season record in the Seattle Mariners&#39; 7-2 victory over the Oakland Athletics.
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Craig Biggio got another milestone hit, even though he's still a few shy of 3,000. This one finally put the Houston Astros ahead to stay.
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com. Orlando Cabrera has already figured out how to part the Red Sea. With a three-run double in the top of the ninth, Cabrera sent waves of red-clad Angels fans to the exits.
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The Chicago White Sox keep wasting opportunities. Jorge Cantu hit a two-run single in the 10th inning, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays beat the host White Sox, 5-3, yesterday to keep Chicago from pulling within 3 1/2 games of first-place Detroit in the AL Central.
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Derek Jeter hit a leadoff home run, Jon Lieber pitched into the eighth inning, and the New York Yankees clinched their 10th consecutive trip to the postseason with a 7-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays yesterday at Yankee Stadium.
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Nomo improved to 5-5 in his career against Arizona in his 297th career start...Giovanni Carrara retired the side in the seventh for the Dodgers...The Diamondbacks activated pitcher Scott Service from the 15-day disabled list and recalled pitchers Randy
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The Hendrick Motorsports juggernaut just keeps on rolling.
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As hot as Ichiro has been - and he sizzled to a 13-game hitting streak with a single in the seventh inning last night â-ven he isn&#39;t as hot as Edgar Martinez in the past six games, hitting .
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Ichiro Suzuki stroked two more hits Friday night to pass Ty Cobb in his inexorable march to overtake George Sisler. Raul Ibanez reached base five more times