Red Sox Feeling Heat of 0-2 Start in ALCS
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BOSTON - The infield at Fenway Park was covered with a dirty white tarp on a dreary day. Unless the Boston Red Sox start winning soon, the gloom will last all winter...
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The Red Sox, mugged by the Yankees in a pivotal series in the Bronx last weekend, emerged declaring their injuries were merely flesh wounds.
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CHICAGO -- Terry Francona was asleep during what may have been a signature moment in the American League East race. Given that it took place in the middle of the night, hours before the Red Sox' 14-2 victory yesterday made it three straight blowout wins over the Chicago White Sox, he was not alone.
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BOSTONâThese Yankees are an arrogant bunch. Six consecutive first-place finishes tend to do that. But very rarely do you see a team in the heat of a pennant race facing the team chasing them send out a starting pitcher just to see him get work.
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The offseason scorecard shows the Boston Red Sox leading the New York Yankees. But a check of the calendar indicates that winter has just begun.
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The Red Sox lost for the first time in 11 games, falling to the Texas Rangers 8-6 yesterday and missing a chance to pull 1-1/2 games behind the New York Yankees in the AL East.
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The Boston Red Sox look as if they are going to win this World Series. &quot;What are you Thom, some kind of moron? Don&#39;t you remember 1986 when the Red Sox were up 2-0 against the New York Mets?
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To this point -- Boston up 3-0 on St. Louis at Tuesday&#39;s press time -- the 2004 World Series has been a major league letdown. I had a feeling that the American League Championship Series was our true World Series.
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Red Sox Nation had a muster last night at Fenway Park, priming the pump of its seemingly bottomless support for a team that will begin the playoffs today in search of a World Series championship that has eluded the city since the end of World War I.
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They are like a big lobster pot on a piping hot stove, churning and bubbling, ready to boil over. The Red Sox have a 3-games-to-none lead over the Cardinals in the 2004 World Series, and all of their dreams -- and yours -- are about to come true. The local nine is bursting with optimism, yet the ...
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The Boston Red Sox thought they were exhausted when they got into their Bay Area hotel at dawn Monday after losing two of three to the Yankees. They had no idea their longest day of the year was just beginning &#151; and that it would end with a 225-minute, 11-inning, improbably dramatic loss to the Oakland Athletics.
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Red Sox bats that knocked balls over fences all season flailed wildly at them in the first two games of the AL championship series.
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In just a week, fans in Boston have experienced emotions ranging from despair to elation as the Red Sox come back to win four straight games and advance to the World Series.
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NEW YORKâThe Red Soxâ roller coaster season took one of its sharpest dips yet Saturday, when the Sox followed up their most resounding win of the season with perhaps their most disappointing loss.
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The Boston Red Sox led the St. Louis Cardinals 2-0 after one inning, as Boston ace Curt Schilling tested his sutured ankle Sunday in Game 2 of the 100th World Series. With Matt Morris on the mound, St. Louis was trying to even the series after Boston took Saturday's opener.
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The Red Sox lose back-to-back games for the first time in more than five weeks, after a 5-to-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Rookie Scott Kazmir outpitched Pedro Martinez to lead Tampa Bay.
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In just 19 days, the Boston Red Sox have cut the New York Yankees' 10 1/2-game AL East lead to 2 1/2 games. "We're just going to take care of what we can take care of," Boston reliever Mike Timlin said after the Red Sox beat Texas 2-0 on Friday night for their 10th straight victory. "We won today. We're going to win tomorrow."