Red Sox Draw First Blood in Battle of Top Offenses
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Going into the 100th edition of the World Series, featuring two of the most prolific scoring teams in their respective leagues, could we have expected anything less than a slugfest?
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Before last night&#39;s game with Tampa Bay at Fenway Park, every Boston player in sight was bombarded by questions about the drama that will be played out this weekend at Yankee Stadium against the Red Sox&#39; hated rivals.
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The first-game shivers are out of the way in the World Series, and now what? The two highest-scoring teams in the Major Leagues during the regular season combined for the
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David Ortiz, who is batting .385 in the playoffs, will play first base for the Red Sox on Saturday, with Kevin Youkilis replacing him for defense if the team has a lead.
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Boston's 11-9 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday night got the highest TV rating for the first game of the World Series since 1999.
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Johnny Damon had two home runs including a grand slam to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 10-3 win over the New York Yankees Wednesday night in the deciding game for the American League pennant. The Red Sox became the first team to lose the first three games of a seven game series and then win the next four.
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Kind of makes you wonder why they had to play those first 166 games, doesn&#39;t it? It was always going to be Yankees-Red Sox. The entire season built to this, the same way last season did.
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-- More than the Curse is at stake for the Red Sox, who would love to have bragging rights after getting bullied by their New York brethren for so many decades.
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David Ortiz slugged a three-run homer during a four-run first inning, and the Boston Red Sox held a 7-2 lead over the St. Louis Cardinals after three innings of Game One of the 2004 World Series.
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IT&#39;S crunch time for baseball&#39;s fiercest rivals as the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees prepare to play each other six times in the next 10 days.
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It's no secret why the Red Sox finished their regular season at Fenway Park with the second-best home record (55-26) in the majors, trailing only the Yankees (54-24). The Sox were built to flourish in the Fens and proved it by leading the majors in runs scored at home (517) and topping the American League in batting (.304), on-base percentage ...
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BOSTON - The New York Yankees had a record-breaking Saturday night on offense and forced the Boston Red Sox to focus on trying to pull off a history-making comeback in the AL championship series.
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Boston&#39;s victory over St. Louis in Game 1 of the World Series last night attracted the best television ratings for the opener of Major League Baseball&#39;s championship round since 1999.
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The spark is back. Johnny Damon ignited the Red Sox last night with his left-field double in the first inning off Woody Williams that put the team on its way to an 11-9 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 1 of the World Series.
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The Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers nearly came to blows after Josh Beckett hit Magglio Ordonez in the side of the head with a breaking ball. Mark Prior had his own problems on the mound &#151; he couldn't get the Kansas City Royals out.
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BOSTON -- Curt was the subject on everyone&#39;s lips, Curse was the subject on everyone&#39;s mind. Two games into their showdown with the hated Yankees, the poor, bedeviled and favored Red Sox have suffered no less
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David Ortiz hit his league-leading 49th homer, and Kevin Youkilis had a three-run double in the seventh inning to lead the Red Sox over the Yankees in their first game Sunday.