AMERICAN LEAGUE: Red Sox rolling; A&#39;s lead slips
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Johnny Damon hit a first-inning home run in his return to the Red Sox lineup after missing four games with a jammed right pinkie, sparking Boston&#39;s 7-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night.
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The A&#39;s fell from sole possession of first place and have five games to reassume exclusive control of the American League West.
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The Red Sox, losing to the Devil Rays yesterday, had their division lead sliced to 1&#189; games by the Yankees. With a week left in the regular season, the AL East race is far from over.
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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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David Ortiz drove in half of Boston&#39;s runs Monday in an 8-3 win over the Oakland Athletics. Boston, which has won 18 of its last 20 games, remained 2 1/2 games behind the first
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The Boston Red Sox saw their AL East lead cut to 1 1/2 games &#151; their smallest edge since late April &#151; when the Toronto Blue Jays broke through against Clay Buchholz and Jonathan Papelbon for a 6-1 victory Wednesday night.
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NEW YORK - The Boston Red Sox are to send hobbled star Curt Schilling to the mound Tuesday night against the New York Yankees, whose 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven AL championship series is down to 3-2 after back-to-back marathon games. But rain in the forecast could make for another long night of delays or earn both teams some much needed rest...
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Dustin Pedroia tagged a two-run homer in the seventh inning last night that sent the Red Sox to a 5-2 lead and an eventual 11-2 win in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series over the Indians. And with it came that trip to the World Series.
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Pedro Martinez keeps the Cardinals down over seven innings as the Red Sox win, 4-1, in Game 4 to take a 3-0 lead in the World Series.
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Curt Schilling allowed two hits and struck out nine in seven innings and David Ortiz snapped out of an RBI slump with his major league-leading 32nd homer and a two-run triple, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 7-0 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Saturday night.
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Manny Ramirez banged a ball off his knee. Keith Foulke had a stiff back. Neither was available at the end of the game, and yet the Boston Red Sox keep winning.
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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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OAKLAND, Calif. - Johnny Damon hit a leadoff homer in his return to the Red Sox lineup after missing four games with a jammed right pinkie to start Boston's 7-1 win over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night...
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The Boston Red Sox used a seven-run inning to win at Anaheim 9-3 in their American League Division Series opener. David Ortiz put the Sox ahead with an infield RBI single in the first.
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Manny Ramirez homered twice, Curt Schilling moved into a tie for the major league lead with 17 wins and the streaking Boston Red Sox beat the Anaheim Angels 10-7 Tuesday night.
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David Ortiz hit a two-run homer to right field in the first inning to give the Boston Red Sox a 2-0 lead over the New York Yankees after one inning of play in Game 7 of the AL championship series Wednesday night.
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NEW YORK -- Don't expect the Red Sox to buy the theory that the Yankees' pitching has declined. Not after the Sox managed only eight runs on 20 hits over three of the most important games of the season. While the Yankees hit .308 and scored 27 runs, the Sox mustered only a .200 average as two of their core ...