Sox punish cocky Yankees
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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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NEW YORK The Yankees are one loss from sinking to an inglorious place in baseball history. Their fans beat them to it Tuesday night.
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Cobbling together five victories in seven road games should be cause for celebration. Yet after Sunday's loss, the Yankees were grilled about the charging Red Sox.
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After three games, the Red Sox had fallen so far back that they were nothing more than a mere speck in the Yankees&#39; rearview mirror.
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As if the Yankees and the Red Sox did not have enough reasons to hate each other, Joba Chamberlainâs two wayward fastballs have added another wrinkle.
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The Yankees enter another postseason with such a star-studded lineup that only their own insecurities or a strong pitching staff can derail them.
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They are the team of which the Boston Red Sox dare not speak. At least, not yet anyway. The Yankees may be somewhere on their minds, maybe even stuck in their craws.
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BOSTON RED SOX fans are enjoying their best week of the season. While their beloved team swept wild-card rivals Anaheim in a three-game series to establish a nine-game winning streak, the hated New York Yankees endured the heaviest loss in their history.
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Against a nothing-to-lose team such as the Kansas City Royals, the Yankees&#39; manager wanted his team to put down the hammer early and not let baseball&#39;s second worst team believe it had a chance.
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Spunk. A day after the Boston Red Sox had embarrassed themselves in front of their home fans in a rather important game, the fans arrived at the lyric little bandbox of a ballpark reasonably resigned to the inevitability of another Yankee pennant. Their demands were limited: &quot;Please, guys, don't roll over. Make those Sons of Darth Vader earn it. Show ...
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Johnny Damon drove in the winning run with a bloop single in the top of the ninth inning as the Boston Red Sox rallied to edge the New York Yankees 3-2 in an American League East showdown at Yankee Stadium on Friday.
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With the offense rumbling and Jon Lieber in command, the Yankees walloped Boston at misty, wind-whipped Yankee Stadium.
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BOSTON -- They leaped off their benches like a couple of desperate heavyweights, sweat and mouthpieces flying. The Yankees and the Red Sox tried to knock some sense into each other.
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NEW YORK -- Sunday night the Red Sox were three outs from being swept from the playoffs by the hated Yankees. They had lost a playoff game at Fenway Park by the humiliating score of 19-8 Saturday night and some members of their loyal Nation felt betrayed and abandoned.
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Josh Becket did a lot of nasty pitching and a little trash talking to help make sure the Boston Red Sox would survive to play another game.
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Joe Torre certainly has no problem leading by example. The Yankees manager, calling on his club to "be a little more fiery," got himself tossed for arguing a caught stealing in the fifth inning and New York beat the Boston Red Sox 9-5 Friday night to climb out of the AL East cellar.
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HEMPSTEAD, NY - Herman Edwards had words of advice for Yankees&#39; fans feeling sorry for themselves or angry at their team for blowing their 3-0 ALCS lead to the Boston Red Sox.