Baseball Beat: Red Sox just played much better
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Bee Staff Writer. hanks to all the emotion expended and frustration released by Boston finally shedding &quot;The Curse of the Bambino&quot; and winning a World Series, the dubious quality in baseball&#39;s
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Two little, too late for the Boston Red Sox. Boston beat the New York Yankees twice in one day for the first time in 30 years, rallying for a 5-4 victory Sunday night on Mark Loretta's ninth-inning sacrifice fly. In the opener of the team's second straight day-night doubleheader, David Ortiz's league-leading 49th homer and Kevin Youkilis' three-run double in the seventh boosted Boston to a 6-3 win.
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It was about taking care of business, or maybe it was about the Boston Red Sox not â-gain. The Yankees didnât play their best game, but because the Red
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The Boston Red Sox used a seven-run inning to win at Anaheim 9-3 in their American League Division Series opener. David Ortiz put the Sox ahead with an infield RBI single in the first.
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There was brief confusion at Fenway Park last night. Under clearing October skies, a streaking Comet Holmes, and a Jackie Gleason moon, the Red Sox actually trailed the Colorado Rockies, 1-0, for three innings, and some bandwagon newcomers did not know what to think.
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NEW YORK -- Don't expect the Red Sox to buy the theory that the Yankees' pitching has declined. Not after the Sox managed only eight runs on 20 hits over three of the most important games of the season. While the Yankees hit .308 and scored 27 runs, the Sox mustered only a .200 average as two of their core ...
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Boston beat Detroit 6-1, ending a stretch of 26 games -- 23 against teams below .500 at the time of the game -- in which the Red Sox won 20.
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Mike Lowell started off the Red Sox with a grand slam and finished off the Orioles with an outstanding defensive play.
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Johnny Damon drove in the winning run as the Boston Red Sox staged a comeback to beat the New York Yankees 3-2. Trailing 2-1 to their AL East rivals, the Red Sox hit two runs off Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning to snatch victory.
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This was where the turnaround was supposed to happen, where whose rules you went by was going to make a difference. After playing with a designated hitter in their Fenway playpen, the Red Sox were going to have to play baseball the way that Abner Doubleday imagined it.
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Scouting: This was supposed to be Boston&#39;s most grueling stretch of their playoff drive. Instead, the Red Sox had won 16 of 17 going into yesterday, had cut eight games
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The White Sox&#39; 10-2 loss to the Twins at the Metrodome Tuesday night offered a nearly perfect mirror to an increasingly ugly season.
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It's a relatively recent story, and a familiar one. The Red Sox had two big sluggers in the middle of their lineup -- one a lefthanded hitter, the other a righty, both .300 hitters, one a former MVP, one who would soon be named one. They were the linchpins of a Sox team that had high hopes of playing deep ...
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HOUSTON So you think the Red Sox and Yankees staged high drama in their Game 5? Consider this: Twenty-three minutes after David Ortiz&#39;s single lifted the Red Sox past the Yankees in the 14th inning on Monday
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SEATTLE -- It was a Manny Moment. Chests bumping, hearts thumping, the full-of-confidence Red Sox were ready to beat Seattle yet again yesterday. It was the top of the first inning and Johnny Damon was on third and Manny Ramirez on second with only one out when Jason Varitek smoked a liner to fairly deep right field. The Sox were ...
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The Boston Red Sox improved their Major League-best record to 78-51 by winning both games of a doubleheader against the Chicago White Sox on Friday.
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The Boston Red Sox beat the Colorado Rockies 10-5 on Saturday to move within one victory of winning the World Series.