Martinez targets himself for the most blame
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NEW YORK -- In the city that loves to hate Pedro Martinez, the sellout crowd at Yankee Stadium suffered only one minor disappointment yesterday. It came after Martinez walked John Olerud in the sixth inning. The free pass followed Jorge Posada's home run, a shot that landed just a few feet inside the left-field foul pole.
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Omar Minaya may be the only person in baseball prepared to take Sammy Sosa off the Cubs&#39; hands and his recent offer to Pedro Martinez threatens to break up a Red Sox partnership that helped lift an 86-year curse.
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Even as Pedro Martinez waited to hear whether his free agent outreach to the Yankees would produce a formal offer from the Pinstripers, some of his teammates struggled to shake the image of Martinez making nice with their archrivals.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Restless to resolve his status, Pedro Martinez has indicated he wants to decide by today whether to re-sign with the Red Sox or bolt to the Mets, a source familiar with his thinking said last night.
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Edgar Martinez overshadowed Ichiro Suzuki&#39;s chase of the Major League&#39;s single-season hits record with a two-homer night. The long balls weren&#39;t enough for Seattle
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ANAHEIM - For the better part of a month, Pedro Martinez used the New York Mets to try to wring a better contract out of the Boston Red Sox.
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Like Roger Clemens did almost exactly eight years earlier, Pedro Martinez has left the Red Sox apparently bitter about the way he was treated by management.
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ST. LOUIS - A free agent this winter, Pedro Martinez may have pitched his final game for the Boston Red Sox. But what a game it was.
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Newly signed New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez leveled criticism of former Boston Red Sox teammate Curt Schilling, telling the Boston Herald he&#39;s much better and that Schilling was off-base when talking about Martinez&#39;s workout regimen.
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It was, by his own admission, not a vintage performance. But it was workmanlike. And in the end, after almost six hours of baseball and a 5-4, 14-inning victory that sent the Red Sox back to New York for tonight's sixth game of the American League Championship Series, Pedro Martinez felt he had done what he needed to do.
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For the Red Sox to get past the Yankees, Pedro Martinez almost certainly will have to find a way to master the team he calls &quot;daddy.
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New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez can start throwing Saturday as part of his recuperation from October rotator cuff surgery.
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Pedro Martinez felt a twinge in his calf before the game, and felt the effects during a terrible first inning. The New York Mets could only hope a bad outing was the worst of his problems.
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Fame and fortune already his, Martinez finally made it to the World Series on Tuesday night. When he got there, he shut down the St.
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No matter where he happens to fall in the rotation, and he admits he has slipped a spot, Pedro Martinez insists he still is No. 1 on the day he pitches.
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There is too much of the one-sided version of the story going around, especially in Boston, now that Pedro MartÃ­nez has said he is on his way to Shea Stadium.
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Perhaps he was trying to be too fine with his pitches. Perhaps he was trying too hard to pinpoint his location. And perhaps Fausto Carmona wasn't being as aggressive as he should have been against the Red Sox in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series.