Possible playoff preview A&#39;s take a hit in Toronto but come home ...
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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 Oakland A&#39;s have been problematic for the Anaheim Angels for so many years (think the early &#39;70s, late &#39;80s, and the last few seasons) that you&#39;d have thought this was a bigger deal than it was.
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OAKLAND -- -- The essential difference between the A&#39;s and the Anaheim Angels, so narrow yet so pronounced, rang loud and clear Saturday, distilled to a single inning.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Cheers or jeers? How would the Air Canada Centre crowd react to star forward Vince Carter in the Toronto Raptors&#39; pre-season opener?
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Orlando Cabrera may be new to the Red Sox and to this business of Red Sox-Yankees playoffs. He may be as far away as he could get from his previous baseball outpost, Montreal, where the Expos drew closet crowds.
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Instead of watching the Yankees and Red Sox duel again, rather than stay riveted on several playoff races that will be decided in the season&#39;s final days, many eyes will focus on a team
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Disappointment is something that Mike Mussina takes in stride because it has seemed to identify his postseason career. Again and again, Mussina has tossed playoff gems, only to be bested by a sharper opponent.
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The A&#39;s fell from sole possession of first place and have five games to reassume exclusive control of the American League West.
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The Yankees arrived in Toronto for the start of a season-high 10-game trip, held a one-hour pregame meeting and followed with one of their flattest performances in a season that is spinning out of control.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Ichiro Suzuki went home minus the career hit record, thanks to Oakland&#39;s determined pitching -- and a bigger hit by Bobby Crosby.
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OAKLAND, Calif. Oakland has company atop the AL West standings after the Athletics were beaten by Seattle 7-to-2. The loss drops the A&#39;s into a tie with Anaheim for the division lead with five games remaining.
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Oakland gets three young players for the star, a free-agent-to-be who would rather have stayed. By Tim Casey -- Bee Staff Writer. It&#39;s not too late to get into a Fantasy Sports League.
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A-Rod's slump is a thing of the past, and the streaking New York Yankees are leaving Boston far behind in the AL East. The sinking Red Sox are getting some of their regulars back, but they can only hope it's not too late to make a final playoff push.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - The Oakland Athletics are used to pressure-packed pennant races...
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Maybe they should play the rest of their home games at the ballpark over at Coney Island, because their own place suddenly has become a House of Mirrors. The Yankees lose the World Series here. They get shut out in the Division Series opener here. They squander a 5-3 lead late in Game 2 against the Twins ...
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That's Fausto, like oust-o. And like one of their supposed aces, the Cleveland Indians could soon be kicked out of the postseason. Maybe they should be. Because the pitiful-playing squad that showed up Saturday night for Game 6 of the AL championship series at Fenway Park doesn't deserve to go anywhere else this October but home.
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(Sports Network) - Two of the top teams in the American League tangle in a possible American League Division Series preview tonight, as the West-leading Oakland Athletics host the wild card-leading Boston Red Sox for the first of a three-game set at the