Sunday&#39;s AL Roundup
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No surprise, the Red Sox capped their home season Sunday with a brilliant performance by Curt Schilling and another bench-clearing confrontation with the Yankees, en route to a 11-4 victory over New York.
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Ryan Howard and Albert Pujols perfected their power strokes yesterday.
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Even though the game was a snoozer, I really enjoyed being around the Redskins on Sunday. Sean Taylor is going to be a big star and Clinton Portis had as impressive a day as any player I&#39;ve seen in the first six weeks of the season.
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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 season.
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CHICAGO WHITE SOX_Claimed RHP Bobby Jenks off waivers from Anaheim. Designated RHP Eduardo Villacis for assignment. Agreed to terms with OF Timo Perez on a one-year contract.
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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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The Blue Jays smacked the Oakland A&#39;s 13-5 yesterday in a game that smacked an awful lot of the Syracuse SkyChiefs. Of the 15 players who had a hand in this much-welcomed cakewalk, nine, including four of
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The lineup the New York Yankees put out against the Baltimore Orioles was so good that the player with the second-best average in the AL was batting ninth. Was it any wonder they scored 16 runs?
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Derek Lowe came through where Dave Ferriss failed. And Jim Lonborg. And Roger Clemens and Bruce Hurst, too.
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Gary Sheffield hit another clutch homer and Derek Jeter learned his elbow is just bruised. Not a bad night for the struggling New York Yankees.
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The numbers are so one-sided, it&#039;s startling. The American League is 8-0-1 in the last nine All-Star games. AL teams also swept the past two World Series and won an overwhelming 61 percent of interleague games against the NL this season.
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at Fenway Park Records: Boston is 86-56 (second in the AL East); Tampa Bay is 61-80 (fourth in AL East). Tonight (7:05, NESN, WEEI): LHP Scott Kazmir (1-1, 5.62) vs. RHP Pedro Martinez (16-5, 3.44). Tomorrow (7:05 p.m., NESN, WEEI): RHP Dewon Brazelton (6-7, 4.33) vs. RHP Tim Wakefield (11-9, 4.64). Thursday (7:05 p.m., NESN, WEEI): LHP Mark Hendrickson (8-14, ...
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The Anaheim Angels beat Oakland 5-3 to move back to within two games of the AL West-leading Athletics. Garret Anderson hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning to give Anaheim a 4-3 lead, and Chone Figgins
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Royals 10, Rangers 2 At Kansas City, Calvin Pickering drove in six runs with a grand slam and a two-run home run yesterday in his first major-league appearance in almost three years to
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The Detroit Tigers doubled their AL Central lead Friday night. Magglio Ordonez hit a two-run homer in an eight-run fourth inning, Brandon Inge added a grand slam in the sixth and the Detroit Tigers boosted their division lead to two games by routing the Baltimore Orioles 17-2 Friday night.
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The A&#39;s got younger all over Saturday. There&#39;s a pretty good chance they got quite a bit better, too. In completing the long-rumored trade that sent underachieving left
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A victory over Baltimore, a loss by the Red Sox, and a defeat for Detroit. It's almost as though the New York Yankees won three times last night.