Baseball: Red Sox wipe out 86 years of pain as Ramirez fires ...
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&quot;Yes!!!&quot; The giant, single-word headline in The Boston Globe yesterday, above a picture of a heap of joyous baseball players, summed up the exultation and relief of a city
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David Ortiz thumped two homers and  drove in four runs to fire the Boston Red Sox to an 11-5 win  over the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League Wednesday.
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The Boston Red Sox have won the American League Championship Series and are heading to the World Series for the first time since 1986.
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BOSTON -- There may be only 50 ways to leave your lover, but the Red Sox found 86 ways to &quot;86&quot; an 86-year-old curse. No.
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Get ready, Boston. There's no other outcome now: Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez and the Red Sox &#151; up 3-0 in the World Series &#151; will either win the World Series or add another historic collapse to their legend.
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The way things have turned their way in recent weeks, the Red Sox seemed strong enough to overcome even the loss of Manny Ramirez to an injury. But they were grateful just the same when the slugger returned yesterday after missing only one game with a left knee contusion.
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The most satisfying images from the Boston Red Sox's latest win are the X-rays of Manny Ramirez's knee. The Boston slugger fouled a ball off his knee in the fourth inning of the Red Sox's 5-3 home victory over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night...
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Eighty-six years after the Boston Red Sox last won the World Series, the franchise is again facing its rivals and its ghosts.
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The home run drought is over. For Manny Ramirez, not Barry Bonds. Ramirez ended a 50 at-bat homerless streak and Daisuke Matsuzaka had his best performance yet on Saturday to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 1-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
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St. Louis - After a humiliating 86-year span of suffering, the Boston Red Sox were lower than low. They had just lost the first three games of the American League Championship Series to the New York Yankees.
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Eighty-six years after the Boston Red Sox last won the World Series, the long-frustrated franchise is again facing its rivals and its ghosts.
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The way Manny Ramirez knelt and grimaced in agony Friday night after he drilled a pitch off his knee, the possibility of him returning soon to the Red Sox lineup seemed remote. The contusion of Ramirez's left knee was serious enough to force him out of action last night, though the Sox hoped he could return today for the series ...
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Millions of bleary-eyed New Englanders  on Thursday savored a feeling lost generations ago: the joy of  a Red Sox World Series victory that ended an 86-year drought  and, some say, lifted a legendary curse.
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Boston Red Sox&#39;s David Ortiz celebrates his 14th inning game winning single to score teammate Johnny Damon on a pitch from New York Yankees Esteban Loaiza in Game 5 of the ALCS in Boston, Monday Oct. 18, 2004.
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The most satisfying images from the Boston Red Sox's latest win are the X-rays of Manny Ramirez's knee. The Boston slugger fouled a ball off his knee in the fourth inning of the Red Sox's 5-3 home victory over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night.
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ST. PETERSBURG, United States : Manny Ramirez hit a two run home run in the fifth inning and Johnny Damon added a three run homer as the Boston Red Sox clinched their second straight post-season berth with a 7-3 win over Tampa.
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David Ortiz thumped two homers and drove in four runs to fire the Boston Red Sox to an 11-5 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League Wednesday.