Indians fall short once again in ALCS
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With Kenny Lofton racing around third, Cleveland's comeback Â and a season stuffed with them Â came to an abrupt halt.
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Travis Hafner hit a three-run home run last night and the Cleveland Indians unloaded for four homers off Justin Verlander in a 7-4 win over the visiting Detroit Tigers, whose reign as AL champions is nearing an end.
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The Red Sox lose for the first time in 11 games, falling to the Rangers 8-6 Saturday and missing a chance to pull within 1 1/2 games of the Yankees in the AL East.
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The Cleveland Indians pulled within one game of the Central lead, scoring four runs in the first inning and beating the Minnesota Twins, 7-1, last night behind home runs by Travis Hafner and Victor Martinez.
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Mark Loretta doubled with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth and the Boston Red Sox took advantage of a meltdown by reliever Fausto Carmona to beat the Cleveland Indians 6-5 on Wednesday night.
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By the time things mercifully came to a conclusion last night -- or was it early morning? -- the dominant story for the first two-thirds of Game 1 of the ALCS, a 10-7 Yankees victory, had been reduced to a footnote.
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Carl Everett homered and drove in four runs, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 14-9 victory over the fading Cleveland Indians on Thursday night.
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Another game, another postseason classic. It will be news if the Red Sox and Yankees ever play a yawner. Last night certainly does not qualify.
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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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NEW YORK -- Tracing the tracks of their tears back to the ballpark in the Bronx where all the horrible things happened last October, the Red Sox returned to the American League Championship Series last night, fell behind, 8-0, then rallied mightily before again succumbing to the Yankees, 10-7.
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The Twins lost a chance to leave town with two wins when the Yankees battled back with two runs in the bottom of the 12th in a 7-6 loss in Game 2 of the American League Division Series on Wednesday.
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Minneapolis- The rest of baseball is hitting .330 against Terry Mulholland this season. The Indians do not know how that is possible.
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The Boston Red Sox looked at the out-of-town scoreboard and could hardly believe what they saw. The New York Yankees were trailing big at home against the Cleveland Indians in what would be the worst loss in the 101-year history of the storied franchise.
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If the Indians needed a hint as to how last night was going to unfold, they got it on the third pitch of the night. Grady Sizemore hit a home run, but he didn't score.
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The Boston Red Sox hammered the Cleveland Indians 12-2 on Saturday to force a seventh and deciding game in the American League Championship Series.
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The Cleveland Indians came to town hoping to play the role of spoilers, catching the Red Sox looking ahead to their series with the Yankees. Instead, they've played the role of Fenway foils for Curt Schilling and Josh Beckett, and it hasn't been fun.
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After Curt Schilling and Pedro Martinez failed to get the Boston Red Sox a win against the New York Yankees in the first two games of the AL championship series, Bronson Arroyo will take the hill for Game 3 at Fenway Park on Saturday.    In Houston, the winless Astros face a similar challenge as they return home and put their hopes in Roger Clemens for NLCS Game 3 against the St...