Fading Red Sox World Series hopes in good hands
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Josh Beckett carries Boston Red  Sox World Series hopes to the mound on Thursday for a must-win  Game Five against the Cleveland Indians and they could not be  in safer hands.
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The Boston Red Sox rally past their haunted history -- and the hated Yankees -- to face one last ghost: the Cardinals in the World Series
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NEW YORK - They clung to hope that the Red Sox would choke at the last minute and once again fail to win the World Series, but when it didn't happen, some Yankees fans yesterday begrudgingly gave the Sox their due.
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The Red Sox are trying to keep up their momentum tonight at Fenway Park in Game Two of the World Series. Boston scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning.
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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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Bee Staff Writer. hanks to all the emotion expended and frustration released by Boston finally shedding &quot;The Curse of the Bambino&quot; and winning a World Series, the dubious quality in baseball&#39;s
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Millions of bleary-eyed New Englanders  on Thursday savored a feeling lost generations ago: the joy of  a Red Sox World Series victory that ended an 86-year drought  and, some say, lifted a legendary curse.
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The delirious fans of the Boston Red Sox are confident that a World Series victory has &quot;reversed the curse&quot; supposedly afflicting them since 1918.
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The waiting is over. All season long, Red Sox Nation has been waiting for its team to live up to its potential, leave behind its mediocrity and reel off a lengthy winning streak.
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Giddiness. Paranoia. Arrogance. Caution.  All were on display on Wednesday in Boston as the supposedly  cursed Red Sox moved within one victory of a baseball  championship that has eluded them for 86 years.
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NEW YORK -- It seems so long ago now. Forever, possibly. With the Red Sox full of hope and just a notch below the Yankees in the American League East, the ancient rivals crowded into Fenway Park for a five-game series last month that turned from a beacon to a slaughter. That, in so many ways, effectively ended the Red ...
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BOSTON -- No team in the history of baseball has ever come back from a three-nothing deficit to win in the playoffs, but the Red Sox are giving us hope.
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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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From Irish folk dancing to red-dyed goatees, Boston Red Sox fans are rallying behind their team's quest for a second World Series title in four years.
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BOSTON -- Although Red Sox nation was relatively subdued following this weekend&#39;s World Series games at Fenway Park, four men were arrested after Saturday&#39;s game.
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The news on East and West Coasts this week reflected the fragility of hope based on an aging pitcherÂs arm and a young pitcherÂs value.
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The Red Sox will savior their World Series title for a little while longer before dealing with the harsh realities of free agency.