Pedro finds his groove: Oakland no match for superb ace
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The best matchup of the series, which by this point was the only hope for a competitive game this week between the Red Sox [stats, schedule] and Athletics, turned into another
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This is how the AL West was un-won: Basically, the same way it was so often won. How ironic that the Oakland Athletics â-inners of the last three division championships with
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Pedro Martinez on the mound. A confident, yappy bunch. A 2-0 lead, halfway to the World Series championship. Could it really be this easy for the Boston Red Sox?
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Pedro Martinez's night started bad, and it simply got worse. The New York Mets ace tweaked his calf during warmups, got roughed up for six runs and left his terrible outing against Philadelphia after getting only three outs.
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Mike Mussina wasn&#39;t surprised that the Yankees met with Pedro Martinez on Tuesday. After all, it was just four years ago that Mussina himself was the hot free agent pitcher
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ST. LOUIS It has often been said of the great pitchers that you get them early or you don&#39;t get them at all. Pedro Martinez, whose .
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For all his Cy Young Awards, for all his October theatrics, Pedro Martinez has become almost an afterthought for the Boston Red Sox during this year's postseason surge.
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NEW YORK -- Now it falls to Pedro Martinez to help keep the Red Sox in the race for the division title. And where better for him to square off against a longtime rival, Mike Mussina , than the Big Apple?
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Mark Kotsay's two-run inside-the-park homer proved to be the deciding hit Wednesday in OaklandÂs victory as the Athletics took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five division series.
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Gary Sheffield, Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada homered off an ineffective Pedro Martinez, and Mike Mussina gave the Yankees another excellent outing on Sunday.
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He is gone, and that is unfortunate, but it is not tragic or disastrous or catastrophic. Pedro Martinez [stats, news] was worth every cent the Red Sox [stats, schedule
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Both the line score and the loss belied the brilliance of Pedro Martinez. For that matter, so did the actual substance of the 113 strong-though-not-invincible pitches he tossed.
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Game two between the Yankees and the Red Sox was a pitcher&#39;s dual. Pedro Martinez held up his end of the bargain for Boston despite &quot;who&#39;s your daddy&quot; chants throughout the game.
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In the end, respect to Pedro Martinez was money. Oh, he may have felt that Red Sox owner John Henry and president Larry Lucchino dissed him because they did not immediately give him what he felt he is worth.
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OAKLAND, Calif. David Ortiz hit a solo homer and had four RBI&#39;s as Boston slammed Oakland 8-to-3. Mark Kotsay hit a pair of solo homers to put the A&#39;s ahead to stay.
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It took seven dramatic games -- including three of the longest contests in postseason history -- but when Pedro Martinez finally got to pop the champagne Wednesday night, it still tasted sweet.
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Pedro Martinez dazzles for seven as Boston takes a seemingly safe three games to none lead. By MARC TOPKIN, Times Staff Writer. ST.