October brings major league playoff season
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Big spenders and budget conscious teams start level in the major league's second season that begins Tuesday with eight playoff teams battling to advance to the World Series.
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Here&#39;s another baseball stat to go with your morning coffee and news that the St. Louis Cardinals have defeated the Houston Astros to advance to the World Series: In October, 613 fans logged onto the Astros
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The Red Sox are 8-0 this postseason when scoring first...Teams which have led a Fall Classic two-games-to-none have gone on to win 77 percent of the time.
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The American League champion will be running into a buzzsaw unprecedented in the history of late-season major league baseball. Yet the Colorado Rockies, who've merely gone 21-1 in their last 22 games, will undoubtedly be underdogs in the World Series, just as they were in the National League Division Series against the Phillies, whom they swept, and the NL Championship ...
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Itâs risky to call a series in late September that neither team really has to win a playoff preview. Just the same, the three-game series between the Twins and Yankees that concludes Thursday is as compelling as such series get.
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The New York Yankees are back in the playoffs, locking up their spot with four games left in the season. Boston, Cleveland and Los Angeles have had their tickets punched for a while.
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Tim Wakefield is finally going to get a chance to start a playoff game &#151; and it's a big one.
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Yet another October calamity has struck the Boston Red Sox. Curt Schilling might be done for the season. Schilling, the 21-game winner acquired over the winter specifically to
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By Jack Encarnacao, Globe Correspondent | September 24, 2004. Over the course of the three-game series with the Yankees, which starts tonight, the Red Sox could clinch a wild-card playoff berth and climb closer
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Can&#39;t give anything away in October, Mike Scioscia reasoned, and the Anaheim manager picked his best defensive infielders at second and third base to play the first game of the playoffs.
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It has turned out to be a Red October. Put an end to all the pinstripes talk. The St. Louis Cardinals now stand between the Red Sox and their first World Series title since 1918.
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They are suffering inexplicable breakdowns, and unaccountable disasters. This used to be the Boston Red Sox in October. Now it is the teams they are playing.
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By , Associated Press. The St. Louis Cardinals became the first major league team to clinch a playoff spot this season, winning the NL Central for the third time in five seasons.
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If the playoffs opened right now, instead of next month, the A&#39;s would face the Red Sox in the first round -- again. Boston bounced Oakland out of the postseason in five games last year, coming back from a 2-0 deficit to do so.
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The plot: The Yankees will have home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, thanks to their 101-win season and the AL&#39;s victory in the July All-Star Game.
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They haven't hit the way they can, or pitched the way they should, or executed fundamentals the way good teams are expected to in October.
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THE BASEBALL SEASON unfolds slowly. Amazing plot lines develop as we watch the 162-game season and the playoffs. The World Series is the most memorable week in sports.