Red Sox, Beckett play it safe
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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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New York- The Yankees and Red Sox have been there and done that. They&#39;re about to do it again tonight in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series.
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Josh Beckett became the major league's first 16-game winner Friday, surviving a shaky first when he walked three batters and leading the Boston Red Sox over the Chicago White Sox 11-3 in the first game of a split doubleheader.
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SAN DIEGO -- Josh Beckett sure looks like the starting pitcher for the American League in the 2007 All-Star Game. He beat Jake Peavy and the Padres, 4-2, with eight innings of stellar work yesterday, improving to a major league-best 11-1.
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In a surely inevitable ALCS rematch, the Red Sox are confident this time they have the edge. By MARC TOPKIN, Times Staff Writer. BOSTON - They&#39;ve been intertwined for most of the past 12 months, since Aaron
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Doug Mientkiewicz wants to keep the ball that he caught for the final out of the World Series but the Red Sox want the souvenir as well.
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In hindsight, it would be easy to think of the Red Sox' second World Series title in four years this way: Dominant regular season, dominant postseason, now let's talk about how wicked awesome the Celtics aah. But that would be giving short shrift to the crucial role Beckett played in ensuring that...
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Boston couldn&#39;t be more confident heading back to Fenway Park, looking to close out the once-hot Angels. By MARC TOPKIN, Times Staff Writer.
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With all due respect to Roger Clemens, Jeff Bagwell and the Houston Astros, this is the matchup Major League Baseball wanted. The Red Sox and Cardinals, two of the game&#39;s most storied
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Traders, analysts, managers tired all day as marathon Red Sox, Yankee games keep fans up all night. NEW YORK  - If some traders on Wall Street have seemed a bit groggy lately, it&#39;s simple enough to explain: the Red Sox and the Yankees.
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Josh Beckett and Curt Schilling are both backed by strong offensive outputs as the Red Sox sweep a doubleheader over Chicago, 11-3 and 10-1 on Friday.
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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.
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He wasn't tagged with the loss in the Red Sox' 6-5 defeat to the New York Yankees last night so his unblemished record (8-0) is still intact, but Josh Beckett still felt responsible for the runs he allowed in his 6 1/3 innings of work.
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Money well spent. On Mike Lowell, whose salary Boston was willing to swallow in a trade for Josh Beckett and became the second World Series Most Valuable Player in franchise history. On Beckett himself, a Florida fire sale find who delivered one of the most dominating postseason pitching performances in baseball history.
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Josh Beckett's so locked in it would surprise few if he were led to the mound blindfolded and still hit Jason's Varitek's mitt location spot on. No matter that the Red Sox scored 13 runs last night, Beckett could have been staked to 1 1/2 runs and he could have held on to the lead. The fact that the Rockies ...
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The Boston Red Sox rebounded from a tough loss by hammering their arch-rival New York Yankees 10-1 behind Josh Beckett's Major League-leading 19th win of the season on Saturday.
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Somehow, perhaps using his vast powers of persuasion, Josh Beckett managed to wrest control of the clubhouse stereo away from its traditional keepers, David Ortiz and Manny Ram&#xED;rez, before the start of yesterday's doubleheader. That was how country music thumped through the mess of the visitors' digs at U.S. Cellular Field, prompting J.D. Drew to lip synch along. ...