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2004 Sep 1 Boston Red Sox defeat Los Angeles Angels, 12-7
A word about Angels in the outfield, and we're not talking about the Hollywood original with Paul Douglas and Keenan Wynn, or the remake with Christopher Lloyd and Danny Glover. This is a...
2004 Sep 2 Boston Red Sox defeat Los Angeles Angels, 4-3
LeBron flubs a dunk now and then. Tiger muffs a 2-footer or two. Ichiro even swings and misses occasionally. But the Red Sox? The way they have mastered the art of winning, Terry Franc...
2004 Sep 3 Boston Red Sox defeat Texas Rangers, 2-0
The brains behind the Red Sox spent long winter nights calculating what it might take to end the franchise's 86-year championship famine. The more the Yankees loaded up -- hello, Alex Rod...
2004 Sep 4 Texas Rangers defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-6
It didn't take anything so drastic as driving a stake through Manny Ramirez's heart, but to the Texas Rangers, who brought an end to the Red Sox' 10-game winning streak here, it almost fe...
2004 Sep 5 Boston Red Sox defeat Texas Rangers, 6-5
When it began, the Red Sox were 5 1/2 games behind the Yankees in the American League East and tied with Anaheim for the wild-card lead. When it ended, this nigh-perfect 10-game Fenway...
2004 Sep 6 Boston Red Sox defeat Oakland Athletics, 8-3
OAKLAND, Calif. -- It's that time of year, the suspenseful countdown to October when Kevin Millar, the Texas rally rustler, whips up a way to inspire the Red Sox as if they were defending...
2004 Sep 7 Boston Red Sox defeat Oakland Athletics, 7-1
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Terry Francona remembers the dull ache of hopelessness, the sad feeling of managing a team that was destined to go nowhere in October but home. He guided the Phillies t...
2004 Sep 8 Boston Red Sox defeat Oakland Athletics, 8-3
OAKLAND -- Amid the stormy gloom in Gotham, the rain-idled Yankees last night had plenty of time to gather in front of their televisions and watch the Red Sox Express roar toward them. Th...
2004 Sep 9 Seattle Mariners defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-1
SEATTLE -- Forget about the curse and the Sports Illustrated jinx. The Red Sox last night fell victim to a brief revival of their first-half defensive woes and a Native American pitcher w...
2004 Sep 10 Boston Red Sox defeat Seattle Mariners, 13-2
SEATTLE -- Gather the young ones around the breakfast table and remind them to watch closely. They may not witness anything like the show the Dominican dandies -- Manny Ramirez and David ...
2004 Sep 11 Boston Red Sox defeat Seattle Mariners, 9-0
SEATTLE -- Former Red Sox righthander Carl Mays died in 1971, the year Pedro Martinez, Kevin Millar, and Bill Mueller were born. When Mays died, Manny Ramirez was but a twinkle in his par...
2004 Sep 12 Seattle Mariners defeat Boston Red Sox, 2-0
SEATTLE -- For David Ortiz, the wonder may be that he has produced as well as he has since he injured his right shoulder diving awkwardly trying unsuccessfully to score Aug. 29 against th...
2004 Sep 14 Tampa Bay Rays defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-2
When Scott Kazmir went out to throw his warmup pitches in the fifth inning of last night's 5-2 victory over the Red Sox, the Devil Rays rookie had to give himself a mental slap in the fac...
2004 Sep 15 Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Rays, 8-6
It was uglier than a Muddy River bullfrog, but with the Yankees playing actual baseball again and another Battle of the Bronx beginning tomorrow, the Red Sox didn't care about style point...
2004 Sep 16 Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Rays, 11-4
For a long time this season, it looked as if Kevin Millar was all hat and no cattle. The man who gave the Red Sox the "Cowboy Up" slogan as they played inspired ball last year, was strugg...
2004 Sep 17 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 3-2
NEW YORK -- No romantic comedies on the big screen in the visitors clubhouse at 161st Street last night as the Red Sox prepared to renew their epic struggle for supremacy against the Yank...
2004 Sep 18 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 14-4
2004 Sep 19 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 11-1
It was fun while it lasted. Red Sox Nation took great delight in the Yankees' late-season foibles. For a few weeks it really felt like 1978 in reverse as the Sox cut New York's first-plac...
2004 Sep 20 Baltimore Orioles defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-6
2004 Sep 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 3-2
He was deprived of a win by a bookkeeping necessity. But anyone who witnessed the 3-2 Red Sox triumph knows how superb the big righthander was in this extremely important game, and who wa...
2004 Sep 22 Boston Red Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-6
As the late, great broadcaster Ned Martin might have exclaimed, "Mercy." For the second straight game, the Red Sox last night overcame an unnerving lapse by Keith Foulke and rallied pa...
2004 Sep 23 Baltimore Orioles defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-7
When Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada smacked Derek Lowe's 2-and-2 delivery over the left-field wall in the fifth inning last night for a three-run home run, Lowe stared at the ground and ...
2004 Sep 24 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-4
In the dead of winter last January, Terry Francona faced the largest crowd of Red Sox fans since he succeeded Grady Little as the franchise's 44th manager. As more than 1,000 diehards app...
2004 Sep 25 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 12-5
No frothy champagne showers. No celebratory sprints to the Baseball Tavern. No grateful hugs from principal owner John W. Henry. On the first anniversary of their raucous celebration o...
2004 Sep 26 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 11-4
And so the curtain closes on Act One, Scene One, and it’s a happy ending. The Red Sox closed out the home season with: A) a huge lead for the wild card (six games), B) a 55-26 home record...
2004 Sep 27 Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Rays, 7-3
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Theo Epstein was as perfectly turned out as always last night, if you overlooked the Korbel California Champagne Brut glistening in his hair and spattered on his p...
2004 Sep 28 Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Rays, 10-8
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Take it from Theo Epstein, who sounded a little bit like Tina Turner revving up in the opening of "Proud Mary" when he noted during the sudsy clinching party Monda...
2004 Sep 29 MLB Announces the Expos' Move to D.C.
On September 29, 2004, MLB officially announced that the Expos franchise would move to Washington, D.C. for 2005. Later that night, the Expos played their last game in Montreal, a 9–1 los...
2004 Sep 29 Tampa Bay Rays defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-4
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- He finished on his back, the loser of four straight starts in a season for the first time in a virtually bulletproof career. Turns out the Tampa Bay Devil Rays,...
2004 Oct 1 Boston Red Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 8-3
BALTIMORE -- All Tim Wakefield needed to do last night, it turned out, was pitch adequately and emerge uninjured to secure a spot in the postseason rotation. He did both, prompting the Re...
2004 Oct 2 Boston Red Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-5
BALTIMORE -- Giving new meaning to an old baseball expression, gopher ball, the Red Sox remained in the dark last night about their first-round playoff opponent, in part because the India...
2004 Oct 3 Baltimore Orioles defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-2
BALTIMORE -- It came to this: After traveling 41,442 miles, facing 25,592 pitches, and enduring more ups and downs than their Delta charter, the Red Sox yesterday happily ended the 2004 r...
2004 Oct 5 Boston Red Sox defeat Los Angeles Angels, 9-3
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- It might be as illusory as a smog-free horizon here. It might be wishful thinking. It might be a refusal to acknowledge that even the most accomplished performers in ou...
2004 Oct 6 Boston Red Sox defeat Los Angeles Angels, 8-3
ANAHEIM, Calif. - "We have four dogs and five cats,'' John McNamara is saying over the telephone. "My wife, as you might suspect, is an animal lover. Anything in the damn street, she pick...
2004 Oct 8 Boston Red Sox defeat Los Angeles Angels, 8-6
Jarrod Washburn is a starter by trade, not a closer, a man more accustomed to easing his way into games rather than nailing doors shut. Early in his career, the Angels lefthander saw his ...
2004 Oct 12 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 10-7
NEW YORK -- Tracing the tracks of their tears back to the ballpark in the Bronx where all the horrible things happened last October, the Red Sox returned to the American League Championsh...
2004 Oct 13 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-1
The extent of Red Sox ace Curt Schilling's ankle injury virtually guarantees that he will not be in top form until surgeons repair his damaged right ankle after the season, according to m...
2004 Oct 16 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 19-8
This time, the Red Sox really had them worried. The Sox and their fans were certain of it. They finally had the Yankees on the run. The Sox were better. Even thewiseguys in Las Vegas made...
2004 Oct 17 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 6-4
This was the year. Manny Ramirez said so and everyone believed him, it seemed, even the oddmakers. This was the year, the Sox maintained, even after they dropped the first two games of...
2004 Oct 18 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 5-4
No, Doug Mientkiewicz said, he wasn't the first Red Sox player to reach David Ortiz after another swing of Ortiz's big bat once again brought deliverance, and another day, to a season tha...
2004 Oct 19 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 4-2
NEW YORK -- Baseball players become heroes only if they risk their lives for noble causes, like Ted Williams in the Korean War. So don't even think about hailing Curt Schilling and the...
2004 Oct 20 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 10-3
NEW YORK -- Forevermore, the date goes into the New England calendar as an official no-school/no-work/no-mail-delivery holiday in Red Sox Nation. Mark it down. Oct. 20. It will always ...
2004 Oct 23 Boston Red Sox defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 11-9
Larry Lucchino breezed into John W. Henry's office in Fenway Park yesterday afternoon carrying the newest ornament for the principal owner's desk: The William Harridge American League cha...
2004 Oct 24 Boston Red Sox defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 6-2
No one wants the Red Sox to capture the franchise's first world championship since 1918 more than the players who fell so excruciatingly shy in the four seven-game heartbreakers since tha...
2004 Oct 26 Boston Red Sox defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 4-1
ST. LOUIS -- A day after the 18th anniversary of Bill Buckner's fateful error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, the Red Sox knew they were battling history as well as the Cardinals last...
2004 Oct 27 Boston Red Sox defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 3-0
ST. LOUIS -- They did it for the old folks in Presque Isle, Maine, and White River Junction, Vt. They did it for the baby boomers in North Conway, N.H., and Groton, Mass. They did it for ...
2005 Apr 3 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-2
Cassie Doane, 19, said she planned to inaugurate the new Red Sox season as she normally does, with a few friends gathered around the television. There would be food, drinks, and plenty of...
2005 Apr 5 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
NEW YORK -- In the arrogant capital of baseball championship entitlement, this Opening Week series is being viewed as a restoration of the natural order of things. The Yankees are beat...
2005 Apr 6 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 7-3
NEW YORK -- Derek Jeter wouldn't look at him until after he'd gotten to second base. "I've known Jeter for a long time," said Red Sox reliever Mike Timlin. "I never played with him, bu...
2005 Apr 8 Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 6-5
TORONTO -- Manny Ramirez said after last night's 6-5 win over the Blue Jays that he's going to play three more years and call it a career at age 36. "That's it," said the All-Star outf...