Yanks top Red Sox to climb out of cellar
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The New York Yankees are trying to break another one of baseball's unwritten rules, the one that says a double-digit deficit on Memorial Day is insurmountable. One game after Alex Rodriguez offended some baseball purists by distracting a fielder during a popup, the Yankees built on that victory by beating the Red Sox 9-5 on Friday and climbing out of the AL East cellar.
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The Yankees won three of four games against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to climb above .500 for the first time in more than three weeks.
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The Boston Red Sox crushed the New York Yankees 10-3 Wednesday to complete an historic comeback victory over their arch-rivals by four games to three in the American League Championship Series.
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The Rocket was nowhere in sight. Matt DeSalvo was there in his place &#151; but not for long. And whatever good vibe the New York Yankees created over the weekend quickly disappeared as Jon Garland and the struggling Chicago White Sox knocked out DeSalvo in the second inning on their way to a 6-4 victory Monday night.
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They may never be mistaken for the boys from the Bronx as Boston's archrivals. But the Devil Rays picked up last night where the Yankees left off Sunday, squaring off with the Red Sox in an incident that emptied both dugouts and bullpens before Terry Francona's crew celebrated the clinching of a playoff spot.
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With a barrage of four home runs the Boston Red Sox eliminated the Yankees with a 10-3 victory in Game 7 of the A.L.C.S. at Yankee Stadium.
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A big home run by Ruben Sierra, a clutch 11th-inning hit by Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees are headed right back where most people figured &#151; playing the Boston Red Sox for the AL pennant &#151; after beating the Minnesota Twins 6-5.
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These are the facts: The Yankees blew a three-games-to-none lead in the American League Championship Series to the Boston Red Sox last month.
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The New York Yankees finished off their domination of the Boston Red Sox and took their biggest lead in the AL East this season.
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The New York Yankees roared to life with six runs in the eighth inning for a dramatic 8-7 win over the Boston Red Sox in the opening game of their American League East showdown on Friday.
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Following 4 1/2 months of struggles, the New York Yankees are back in a playoff position, sweeping the Boston Red Sox to take over the AL wild-card lead.
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(CP) - The red hot Red Sox may have had their winning streak ended, but the New York Yankees&#39; cold bats made sure Boston stayed in striking distance of the American League East lead.
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Jon Leiber carried a no-hitter into  the seventh inning while Alex Rodriguez homered, scored three  runs and drove in three more to lead the New York Yankees to a  14-4 win over the Boston Red Sox Saturday.
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Boston beat the Yankees 4-2 as the AL play-off goes all the way to game seven.
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A date with the Red Sox is within reach for the Yankees, who defeated the Minnesota Twins, 8-4, on Friday night at the Metrodome.
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Manny Ramirez hits in the tiebreaking run in the eighth, and the Red Sox win, 12-5, to cut the Yankees' lead in the AL East to 4 1/2 games.
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Alex Rodriguez caps a six-run eighth inning with a tiebreaking single off Jonathan Papelbon, and the Yankees overcome a five-run deficit to beat the Red Sox, 8-7, Friday night.