Tavarez loses it . . . twice
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HOUSTON -- There is a touch of history about this National League Championship Series after all. Even in a matchup that did not have a century of ill will behind it, nostalgia showed up in Game 4. St.
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Chan Ho Park couldn&#39;t hold the lead after Mark Teixeira&#39;s first home run. Francisco Cordero made sure Teixeira&#39;s second one held up for the Texas Rangers.
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The Mets took two from the Rockies but lost second baseman Joe McEwing in a take-out slide, which didn't go unnoticed by reliever Braden Looper.
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BOSTON Go figure this World Series. An old maxim in baseball is you always give away more runs with shoddy defense than you gain with torrid bats.
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This may be as close as it comes to a harmonic convergence on Yawkey Way, on a day that hardly could have been sweeter for the Red Sox even if Julian Tavarez -- a man who just lost his starting job -- hadn't happily sprayed his expensive Parisian cologne around the clubhouse as if it were drugstore air freshener.
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The Americans could have used him on Sunday when Spain won the best-of-five final 3-2. It was Spain&#39;s second title, which kept the United States from adding to its record total of 31.
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Tom Glavine, leading off first base, saw the ball jump off Jose Reyes' bat and knew it was time to put on the burners. Still, the not-so-speedy Glavine was thrown out at the plate. It was pretty much the only thing that went wrong for him all night.
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Julian Tavarez&#39;s 2-2 slider to Carlos Beltran was theoretically a good pitch Sunday afternoon. It was low, outside and traveling 81 miles per hour.
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FOXBOROUGH &#151; Taylor Twellman returned to the Revolution for last night&#146;s 1-1 tie against Chivas USA, entering as a 56th-minute substitute for Adam Cristman. Twellman, who arrived on a Caracas-Atlanta-Boston flight Friday night, connected with two point-blank headers that were blocked by goalkeeper Preston Burpo.
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A wolf in Angels wings? Or a sacrificial lamb to be served up on the Fenway mound this afternoon? Kelvim Escobar went 11-12 this season and was beaten by the Red Sox [stats, schedule], 4
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Sent home twice in defeat, down, disheartened, and frustrated. But not out. Winners in two games, up, content, and confident. But not in.
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Deportivo produced yet another lacklustre display in Europe at home, crashing 1-0 to Liverpool at a rain swept Riazor. The hosts failed to score yet again in European competition and tonightâs defeat will
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One night it's Julian Tavarez , the reliever turned emergency starter. The next, it's Kason Gabbard , a lefthander who began the season in Double A, had lost all three big-league decisions attached to his name, and had been regularly lit up when sent back to Triple A Pawtucket (1-7, 5.23 ERA).
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The Yankees made it official last night: Roger Clemens will not make his return to the majors this weekend against the Red Sox. And the Sox are skipping Julian Tavarez's turn to realign their rotation against the Bombers.
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Madrid, Spain (Sports Network) - Real Madrid lost its first La Liga match of the season this past weekend and it cost Jose Antonio Camacho his job.
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An appeal did little to help St. Louis reliever Julian Tavarez, who was suspended for eight days Friday for applying a foreign substance to balls while pitching last month.
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The New York Yankees failed to get a win from their starting pitcher -- again -- and lost another game to the Red Sox.