Red Sox ace Beckett expects Rockies will be ready
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Red Sox ace Josh Beckett expects the best from Colorado's batters despite an eight-day layoff for the National League champions that threatens to cool off the red-hot Rockies for the World Series starting on Wednesday.
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Game Four of the World Series on Sunday will be as much about perseverance as runs and hits with starting pitchers for both the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies coming back from life-threatening illness.
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Something tells me Rockies manager Clint Hurdle is a guy who can deal with a 13-1 loss in the first game of the World Series. He knows it's not the end of the world. He knows there are other things more important. He has all the perspective any baseball man will ever need.
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NEW YORK It appears New York Yankees ace relief pitcher Mariano Rivera will be ready for tomorrow night&#39;s American League pennant series opener against Boston.
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When Josh Beckett was traded to the Red Sox from the Florida Marlins, he expected to be making meaningful starts in September and hopefully into October. Instead, making his first start of September, Beckett became the human white flag in the team's battle to make the playoffs, which took another blow with a 6-1 loss to Toronto yesterday at Fenway ...
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Curt Schilling might be ready for opening day after all. The Boston Red Sox ace who underwent ankle surgery after the team won the World Series is throwing again, and manager Terry Francona wouldn't be shocked if Schilling starts against the Yankees and their new pitching star in the season opener April 3 in New York.
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Josh Beckett wasn't in the mood to wax sentimental about Roger Clemens after Clemens outdueled him in the Yankees' 4-3 win over the Red Sox last night, dashing his hopes of becoming the major leagues' first 17-game winner.
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TUCSON, Ariz.  -- Catcher Javy Lopez, who had been competing to make Colorado's opening-day roster, was released Monday by the Rockies.
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Boston's Tim Wakefield allows four hits over eight innings as the Red Sox edge the Rockies, 2-1, on Tuesday.
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Josh Beckett could start next week in San Francisco. Kelvim Escobar won't be there, even though he too looks like an All-Star.
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Garrett Atkins goes 3-for-5 with a grand slam and Josh Beckett loses for the first time of 2007 as the Colorado Rockies beat the Boston Red Sox, 7-1.
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Boston was tingling with anticipation on  Saturday as the Red Sox prepared to host Game One of the World  Series against the St. Louis Cardinals and take a step toward  ridding themselves of a hex that has hung over the team for  eight decades.
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Boston was tingling with anticipation on Saturday as the Red Sox prepared to host Game One of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals and take a step toward ridding themselves of a hex that has hung over the team for eight decades.
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The Colorado Rockies are playing the Boston Red Sox in Game Two of the World Series.
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The Colorado Rockies return home for Game Three on Saturday fully aware of the challenge the lies ahead but confident they can come back against the Boston Red Sox in the best-of-seven World Series.
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The Colorado Rockies are hoping the Coors Field effect will help inspire them against the Boston Red Sox this weekend in the 2007 World Series.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio  - Boston's Josh Beckett dazzled on the mound to help the Red Sox stay alive in the American League Championship Series with a 7-1 road victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game Five on Thursday.