Beckett shines to keep Red Sox alive in ALCS
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CLEVELAND, Ohio  - Boston's Josh Beckett dazzled on the mound to help the Red Sox stay alive in the American League Championship Series with a 7-1 road victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game Five on Thursday.
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Josh Beckett won his major league-leading 17th game and rookie Jacoby Ellsbury had three hits, helping the Boston Red Sox beat Roy Halladay and the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 on Tuesday night.
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David Ortiz, still champagne-scented, was watching Saturday's decisive playoff game between the Yankees and Twins with a friend. Up stepped Ruben Sierra, who'd been 1 for 20 in the series, to clock a three-run homer and tie the game in the eighth. &quot;Here they come,&quot; the Red Sox slugger said. Did anyone from Eastport to Block Island expect anything else?
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BALTIMORE - As bad as a Red Sox fan might feel about Daisuke Matsuzaka right now, that's as good as one should feel about Josh Beckett.
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David Ortiz hit his major league-leading 34th home run to help Josh Beckett become baseball's first 13-game winner, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 7-3 on Monday night.
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DAVID ORTIZ lofted a two-run home run in the bottom of the 12th inning as the Boston Red Sox fended off elimination in the American League championship series with a 6-4 win over the New York Yankees on Sunday in Boston.
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Boston Red Sox&#39;s David Ortiz celebrates his14th-inning game-winning single off New York Yankees&#39; Esteban Loaiza in Game 5 of the ALCS in Boston, Monday Oct. 18, 2004.
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C.C. Sabathia joined the Red Sox' Boston's Josh Beckett as the majors' only 11-game winners and finally beat his hometown team again, leading the Cleveland Indians to a 5-2 victory over the Oakland Athletics last night.
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The New York Yankees had a record-breaking night on offense and forced the Boston Red Sox to focus on trying to pull off a history-making comeback in the AL championship series.
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Not since Babe Ruth was pitching for Boston had the Red Sox won a pair of games like this. Josh Beckett held the punchless Kansas City Royals to four hits over eight innings and Manny Ramirez homered Wednesday, leading Boston to its second consecutive 1-0 victory.
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Fox ran away with the night again on Tuesday as the Boston Red Sox kept their pennant hopes alive by prevailing in Game 6 against the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series.
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LOS ANGELES  - Fox ran away with the  night again on Tuesday as the Boston Red Sox kept their pennant  hopes alive by prevailing in Game 6 against the New York  Yankees in the American League Championship Series.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Sept. 21  â Josh Beckett pitched six strong innings Friday night to become the first 20-game winner in the major leagues since 2005, and the Boston Red Sox used late home runs by Jason Varitek, David Ortiz and Mike Lowell to pull away for an 8-1 victory against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
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The Red Sox live. More specifically, they live off Josh Beckett.
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Kirk Saarloos outduels Josh Beckett and the Athletics beat a depleted Red Sox team, 2-1, on Tuesday.
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Boston players celebrate beating the New York Yankees in game seven of the American League championship series. Photo: AP. They had been reliable caretakers of a cosmic curse, feasting for decades
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Josh Beckett pitches three-hit ball over seven innings, leading Boston to a 10-1 win that drops New York 5 1/2 games back of the first-place Red Sox.