Sweet sweep; Red Sox advance in playoffs
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The sweetest smell of the postseason, that heady aroma of champagne and cigars, filled the Red Sox clubhouse once again. No matter how many
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Another August sweep of the Boston Red Sox put the New York Yankees in prime position for a September playoff run. Chien-Ming Wang took a no-hit bid into the seventh inning, Robinson Cano homered twice off Curt Schilling and the Yankees beat Boston 5-0 Thursday for their third straight win over the Red Sox.
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The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series title in 86 years, completing a four-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals with a 3-0 victory at Busch Stadium.
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David Ortiz's two-run homer in the  bottom of the 10th inning gave the Boston Red Sox an 8-6 win  over the Anaheim Angels and a three-game sweep of their  American League Divisional Series Friday.
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Mike Lowell drives in five runs to lead Boston's revived hitting and the Red Sox cut their magic number to clinch the AL East title to two by beating the A's.
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In Major League Baseball playoff action, the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 3-1 Wednesday night to take a two games to none lead in the best of seven American League Championship series.
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BOSTON -- David Ortiz homered in the 10th inning Friday to send the Boston Red Sox to their second consecutive American League championship series, completing a three-game sweep of the Anaheim Angels with an 8-6 victory.
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David Ortiz smacked a two-run homer in  the bottom of the 12th inning to give the Red Sox a 6-4 victory  over the New York Yankees on Monday, enabling Boston to avoid a  sweep in the American League Championship Series.
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The Boston Red Sox blast past Cleveland with eight runs in the seventh and eigth innings to win their third straight ALCS game, 11-2, and advance to the World Series.
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MLB sponsors applaud Boston's clinching a playoff birth.
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The New York Yankees took a 2-0 lead over Boston after three innings of play as they looked to complete a shocking sweep of the Red Sox in Game 4 of the AL championship series Sunday.
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Boston beat the Yankees 4-2 as the AL play-off goes all the way to game seven.
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The Boston Red Sox continued to dominate the Colorado Rockies, beating them in Colorado on Saturday to move within one game of a World Series sweep.
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The surging Boston Red Sox have seized control of the AL wild-card race - with an eye on winning their division. Derek Lowe (13-10) pitched effectively into the eighth inning and Boston completed a three-game sweep of the Anaheim Angels with a 4-3 victory Thursday night - the Red Sox's season-high ninth straight win...
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The Boston Red Sox beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 Sunday to win the World Series and record their second four-game sweep of the Fall Classic in four years.
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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.
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Another strange night in the ``let's-take-a-year-off-from-the-playoffs" Red Sox season. Good news all around at Fenway. Almost perfect, in fact.