Bosox get hit, then hit back, hard
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RED SOX 7, RAYS 3: Scott Kazmir, pitching brilliantly, is tossed after two HBPs as Boston snags a playoff spot. By DAMIAN CRISTODERO, Times Staff Writer.
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The New York Yankees battered Pedro Martinez, chasing Boston out of town with their second rout in a row. Gary Sheffield, Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada
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What a difference a week makes. Two debates. Two games. Two wins. The Yankees sure are looking tough. A week ago the Boston Red Sox looked like world beaters, or at least Yankee-beaters.
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RALEIGH, NC - Wyatt Sexton got knocked down time and time again. When he did stay on his feet, his passes rarely found their target.
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- In the kind of performance that got him shipped out of New York, Jose Contreras was roughed up by the Texas Rangers on Tuesday.
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Completing a comeback from a 3-1 series deficit, the Red Sox won their 12th pennant last night. Clearly, the Red Sox fear no team and no situation. Faced with three consecutive must-win games, Boston outscored Cleveland by an aggregate, 30-5.
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For Doug Mientkiewicz, the hardest part of playing second turned out not to be the double play pivot, fielding ground balls, or applying the tag on a steal. No, it came when he was hit by a 6-foot-3-inch, 230-pound train.
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NEW YORK The Yankees could not help but watch the scoreboard. Their heads swiveled repeatedly toward the outfield as hit after hit for Cleveland sailed over or against the wall.
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The emotional return to the Red Sox was all well and good for Jon Lester, but the cancer-beating lefthander needed some tweaks after six inconsistent starts. So the Red Sox sent him down to Double A Portland for a start, and he returned yesterday afternoon with something the big club hadn't seen before.
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ne bad breaking ball did in the Yankees yesterday. Usually, one mistake does not cost them so dearly, but the Yankees are not usually scrounging for hits either.
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Mike Lowell homers to start a Red Sox comeback and flattens two Yankees in a pair of basepath collisions on Saturday as Boston beats New York, 11-6.
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As the Boston Red Sox kept shooting double after double down the lines and into the gaps, the Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Angels and New York Yankees must have wondered whether they would have flattened the Rockies, too.
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BOSTON - The Yankees kept circling the bases, battering Boston's beleaguered pitching staff. By the time the long, long night ended with a devastating 19-8 rout over the Red Sox, the dreaded New Yorkers were just one game away from a shocking sweep...
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As the World Series success of the Red Sox proved, a team coming off a drought-breaking win over its archrival can be difficult to stop.
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After three games, the Red Sox had fallen so far back that they were nothing more than a mere speck in the Yankees&#39; rearview mirror.
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Josh Beckett's 19th victory pushed back the surging New York Yankees. Beckett pitched three-hit ball over seven innings, leading Boston to a 10-1 win Saturday that dropped New York 5 1/2 games back of the first-place Red Sox with a little more than two weeks to play.
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For the second straight game, all Julio Lugo got to do was pinch run. Coming in for Dustin Pedroia (walk) in the ninth inning, Lugo never got a chance to advance, as Kevin Youkilis flied to short right field and David Ortiz popped to first to end the Red Sox' 2-1 loss to the Rangers yesterday.