Yanks blast Sox again
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After being anointed the player New Yorkers love to hate, Boston right-hander Pedro Martinez got plenty of tough love from the Bronx faithful during a five-run sixth inning.
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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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Josh Beckett is back, a 4-2 winner over the Tribe last night. The Red Sox have won five in a row, lead the Yankees by 14 1/2 games, and own the best record in baseball. And the reeling Yanks are afraid to pitch Roger Clemens in Fenway Park this weekend.
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MINNEAPOLIS - It&#39;s Yankees-Red Sox in the American League Championship Series for the second year. Alex Rodriguez had a double, stole third and scored on a wild pitch, while Mariano Rivera closed out the 6
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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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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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David Ortiz hit his 31st homer, Josh Beckett got his 11th win despite giving up three homers and the Boston Red Sox used timely two-out hitting Saturday to beat the Chicago White Sox 9-6.
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You asked for it. You got it. Ever-clutch, the Yankees rallied from a 5-1 deficit in the eighth inning at Minnesota last night and finished off the Twins, 6-5, in 11 innings in Game 4 of the American League Division Series to advance to the ALCS against the Red Sox, beginning Tuesday night in the Bronx.
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OAKLAND, Calif. David Ortiz hit a solo homer and had four RBI&#39;s as Boston slammed Oakland 8-to-3. Mark Kotsay hit a pair of solo homers to put the A&#39;s ahead to stay.
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In walloping the Yankees 10-1 on Saturday, the Red Sox appear to have restored the oomph to their season.
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Those Red Sox managers just never learn. With an eerie similarity to last year's postseason debacle, Pedro Martinez took a lead into the eighth inning before tiring and the New York Yankees rallied past Boston 6-4 Friday night to open a 5 1/2-game advantage in the AL East.
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In a repeat of last year&#39;s season, the Red Sox and Yankees are going all the way to game seven. An injured Curt Schilling pitched through the pain Tuesday night to lead the Bo Sox to a 4-to-2 victory.
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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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They were three outs from the World Series with Mr. Automatic on the mound, three outs from a champagne shampoo. And suddenly, with one swing of David Ortiz's bat, the Yankees were getting ready to play the Red Sox again this afternoon.
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The way the Boston Red Sox are playing these days, nothing seems to be able to stop them. Not even Mariano Rivera. Orlando Cabrera and Johnny Damon hit RBI singles in the ninth inning off the majors' top reliever, and the Red Sox stormed past New York 3-2 Friday night to cut the Yankees' AL East lead to 2 1/2 games.
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Gary Sheffield, Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada homered off an ineffective Pedro Martinez, and Mike Mussina gave the Yankees another excellent outing on Sunday.
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The New York Yankees had a record-breaking 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.