Sox beat Yankees, curse
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Boston players celebrate beating the New York Yankees in game seven of the American League championship series. Photo: AP. They had been reliable caretakers of a cosmic curse, feasting for decades
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The New York Yankees finished off their domination of the Boston Red Sox and took their biggest lead in the AL East this season.
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The New York Yankees had a record-breaking night on offense and forced the Boston Red Sox to focus on trying to pull off a history-making comeback in the AL championship series.
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Tens of thousands of stunned, giddy Red  Sox fans stumbled through the streets of New England on  Thursday morning to celebrate something many thought  impossible: a World Series victory for baseball's perennial  also-rans that put an end to an 86-year-old curse.
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NEW YORK - The Boston Red Sox crushed the New York Yankees 10-3 Wednesday to complete an historic comeback victory over their arch-rivals by four games to three in the American League Championship Series.
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Manny Ramirez doubled in the tiebreaking run during a seven-run eighth inning, and the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 12-5 Saturday to preserve their chances of an American League East title.
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The Boston Red Sox are the American League champions because of a history-making win against the New York Yankees. But when the World Series starts Saturday night in Fenway Park, the Red Sox will still be trying to set themselves free from a curse that's tortured them for 86 seasons.
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Those Red Sox managers just never learn. With an eerie similarity to last year's postseason debacle, Pedro Martinez took a lead into the eighth inning before tiring and the New York Yankees rallied past Boston 6-4 Friday night to open a 5 1/2-game advantage in the AL East.
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Johnny Damon hit a grand slam and a two-run homer, David Ortiz also connected and the Boston Red Sox capped an unprecedented comeback against the New York Yankees with a 10-3 victory Wednesday night in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series. After losing the first three games of the series, the Red Sox became the first team in baseball playoff history to come back to win.
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The slumping New York Yankees scored a  key victory over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday, as Johnny  Damon&#39;s two-run homer earned them a 5-3 win over the American  League East leaders.
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The year 2004 in sports always will be remembered as the year the Boston Red Sox finally broke the &quot;Curse of the Bambino.&quot;.
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The New York Yankees roared to life with six runs in the eighth inning for a dramatic 8-7 win over the Boston Red Sox in the opening game of their American League East showdown on Friday.
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WAIT a minute! Just because the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees does not mean the &quot;Curse of the Bambino&quot; has ended.
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The Boston Red Sox crushed the New York Yankees 10-3 Wednesday to complete an historic comeback victory over their arch-rivals by four games to three in the American League Championship Series.
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NEW YORK - The curse is dead. Last night&#39;s 3-0 win by the Boston Red Sox ended 85 years of World Series futility. Fans celebrated into the early morning, as they no longer have to endure chants of &quot;1918&quot; (the year of their last World Series win).
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The New York Yankees battled to a 9-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Friday, the win lifting the struggling Bronx Bombers out of last place in the American League East division.
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The New York Yankees roared to life with  six runs in the eighth inning for a dramatic 8-7 win over the  Boston Red Sox in the opening game of their American League  East showdown on Friday.