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2006 May 24 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-6
Theo Epstein, the boyish-looking Yale graduate who steered the Boston Red Sox to their first World Series championship in 86 years, is no longer a free agent, so to speak. The general ...
2006 Jun 5 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 13-5
NEW YORK -- When Josh Beckett walked off the mound last evening, the sky was still a soft blue, the lingering sun illuminating the Bronx courthouse that looms beyond Yankee Stadium in rig...
2006 Jun 6 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 2-1
NEW YORK -- Hours before last night's game, Terry Francona was philosophizing about Manny Ramírez, and the Red Sox manager made this point: ``Manny has an extraordinary ability to put at-...
2006 Jun 8 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 9-3
NEW YORK -- His arm speed isn't as blistering as it once was. His presence isn't as daunting as it once was. And his line scores aren't as audacious as they once were. Curt Schilling bega...
2006 Aug 18 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 12-4
Manny Ramírez pulled one of his occasional disappearing acts into the left-field scoreboard during a pitching change last night. Given the exhibition of sorry pitching he was required to ...
2006 Aug 18 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 14-11
Manny Ramírez pulled one of his occasional disappearing acts into the left-field scoreboard during a pitching change last night. Given the exhibition of sorry pitching he was required to ...
2006 Aug 19 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 13-5
The Red Sox brass set sail on John Henry's big boat last night. The owner held a party to celebrate the engagement of his star general manager, Theo Epstein. Nice gesture. Toasts all arou...
2006 Aug 20 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-5
How could it get worse? Here's how it could get worse. The Red Sox can't hold a 5-3 lead entering the eighth. Derek Jeter fists a two-out game-tying single to right in the ninth. The R...
2006 Aug 21 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 2-1
On Friday, while Cory Lidle's new team drubbed the Red Sox in both games of a day-night doubleheader, the righthander was in Southern California, home for the funeral of his 97-year-old g...
2006 Sep 16 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 5-2
NEW YORK -- Care to wager where Big Papi and Manny are hanging while the Red Sox are in New York this weekend? You could look for them at the Copa or Crobar, I suppose, but your best b...
2006 Sep 16 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-5
NEW YORK -- It seems so long ago now. Forever, possibly. With the Red Sox full of hope and just a notch below the Yankees in the American League East, the ancient rivals crowded into F...
2006 Sep 17 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 5-4
NEW YORK -- The party invitations do not have an expiration date. Sooner than later, the Yankees will have their celebration, just as they have in each of the previous eight seasons, and ...
2006 Sep 17 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 6-3
NEW YORK -- The party invitations do not have an expiration date. Sooner than later, the Yankees will have their celebration, just as they have in each of the previous eight seasons, and ...
2007 Apr 6 Baltimore Orioles defeat New York Yankees, 6-4
Mussina payback Orioles fans are still bitter over the team's last established ace, Mike Mussina, leaving Baltimore to sign with the hated New York Yankees. Apparently, the Orioles' hi...
2007 Apr 7 New York Yankees defeat Baltimore Orioles, 10-7
NEW YORK -- It was a full-count, bases-loaded slider that Chris Ray threw here about a year ago that froze Hideki Matsui for a game-ending strikeout and backed the Orioles' faith in their...
2007 Apr 8 Baltimore Orioles defeat New York Yankees, 6-4
I told you so, Part I When Orioles catcher Paul Bako got up in the fourth inning with two on and one out, Nick Markakis predicted to Aubrey Huff that Bako, who hadn't hit a home run si...
2007 Apr 20 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 7-6
The Red Sox could not bring Alex Rodriguez all the way back to earth last night. These days, no one can. But they undressed another Yankee demigod, closer Mariano Rivera, in stunning f...
2007 Apr 21 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 7-5
David Ortiz acted surprised to hear that Alex Rodriguez had an opt-out clause that would allow him to void the final three years of his contract. "I don't think he will," said Ortiz, w...
2007 Apr 22 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 7-6
When Daisuke Matsuzaka was first asked at his introductory news conference in December what he knew about the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, he likened it to something with which he was familia...
2007 Apr 27 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 11-4
NEW YORK -- When Yankee Stadium began to close in on him last night, Daisuke Matsuzaka didn't have the same option as Tom Werner, the Red Sox chairman who tells the story of how he once l...
2007 Apr 28 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-1
NEW YORK -- When Daisuke Matsuzaka arrived at Yankee Stadium before his start Friday, he was stopped twice by security guards who evidently didn't recognize him. The way things have be...
2007 Apr 29 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 7-4
NEW YORK -- Baseball is full of reflexive actions, whether it's spitting or scratching or Julian Tavarez pointing at an infielder. Saying that your record doesn't matter because it's only...
2007 May 21 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-2
NEW YORK -- This public-service announcement comes courtesy of the New York Yankees: The rest of the 2007 major league baseball season will be played, as scheduled, contrary to any chatte...
2007 May 22 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 7-3
NEW YORK -- The other morning in the Red Sox clubhouse, Julian Tavarez was bouncing around in a "Manny Being Manny" T-shirt, the one that lists all of Ramírez's hitting feats. On his feet...
2007 May 23 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-3
NEW YORK -- Unlike the cyberspace correspondent on the mound for the Red Sox last night, the late Red Smith, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, limited his labors in Yankee Stadium to ...
2007 Jun 1 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-5
Joe Torre wasn't kidding when he said this would be a circus, and the reason why the Yankees left Roger Clemens at home. Fenway Park should have had a tent thrown over it, and not just...
2007 Jun 2 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 11-6
Yankees reliever Scott Proctor may have escaped suspension yesterday for putting Kevin Youkilis on his back Friday night with a helmet-grazing fastball that Red Sox owner John W. Henry fo...
2007 Jun 3 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-5
No matter the masks. No matter the jeers. No matter the singsong mocking, the screams of "Mine!," the tabloid headlines, the questions about his sportsmanship. No matter the pressure of b...
2007 Jun 26 Baltimore Orioles defeat New York Yankees, 3-2
Guthrie Sharp Early After right-hander Jeremy Guthrie retired the first six batters he faced, two of them on strikeouts, Melky Cabrera looked to break up his rhythm by attempting to bu...
2007 Jun 28 New York Yankees defeat Baltimore Orioles, 8-7
The 19-minute rain delay that occurred in the middle of the Orioles' four-run seventh inning last night gave the home team plenty of chances to ponder what they were on the verge of accom...
2007 Jul 27 Baltimore Orioles defeat New York Yankees, 4-2
At the end of a long night of baseball, the Orioles took to the field en masse to celebrate one of their most satisfying victories of the season. It hardly mattered that the New York Yank...
2007 Jul 28 Baltimore Orioles defeat New York Yankees, 7-5
Tejada's back Miguel Tejada went 0-for-5 in his first night after coming off the disabled list, including a strikeout against New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera in the suspended ga...
2007 Jul 29 New York Yankees defeat Baltimore Orioles, 10-6
A Tale of Two Cabreras Starting pitcher Daniel Cabrera got off to a rough start yesterday, but battled back to give the team a chance to win. He loaded the bases with nobody out in the...
2007 Aug 13 New York Yankees defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-6
NEW YORK -- Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts picked up the ball right off Derek Jeter's bat. It was coming right toward him, and he figured he'd have plenty of time to field it and th...
2007 Aug 15 Baltimore Orioles defeat New York Yankees, 6-3
NEW YORK -- Aubrey Huff described the mood in the Orioles dugout after the bottom of the ninth inning as a "quiet anger." Players kept their frustration to themselves, preferring to stew ...
2007 Aug 28 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-3
NEW YORK -- It's the time of year, Joe Torre said, when it doesn't matter whether you're seven games ahead or seven games behind. "You really have to put the blinders on and deal with ...
2007 Aug 29 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
NEW YORK -- The lead is down to a still-comfortable six games, and unless Curt Schilling can offer some vintage Schill this afternoon the way Roger Clemens gave the Yankees some retro Roc...
2007 Aug 30 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-0
NEW YORK - With the two pitches from Joba Chamberlain perhaps still echoing in Kevin Youkilis's ear, Yankee Stadium emptied its fill of 55,067 seemingly satisfied fans. Not only had they ...
2007 Sep 14 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-7
For the better part of four hours, it was a raucous house party. Then it turned into Black Friday. Five runs ahead and six outs away from taking a decisive step to their first divis...
2007 Sep 15 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 10-1
To his everlasting credit, Jorge Posada somehow held onto the ball. But as a symbol of the Red Sox' ferocious response to their late-inning meltdown the night before, nothing yesterday af...
2007 Sep 16 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
If Dave Mellor, keeper of the greensward at Fenway Park, could have found a way that would not have torn up his precious turf, it would have been fitting for the 36,533 fans present last ...
2007 Sep 17 New York Yankees defeat Baltimore Orioles, 8-5
NEW YORK -- With each passing start, the memories of Daniel Cabrera's finest outing of his professional career get more distant, and the signs of progress from the pitcher harder to detec...
2007 Sep 19 New York Yankees defeat Baltimore Orioles, 2-1
NEW YORK -- The 53,857 announced fans at Yankee Stadium last night let out a collective roar, but it wasn't in reaction to Mariano Rivera's game-ending strikeout, though that would come m...
2007 Sep 28 Baltimore Orioles defeat New York Yankees, 10-9
On most nights, in most places, against most teams, the New York Yankees would have had no worries about taking a three-run lead into the ninth inning with all-world closer Mariano Rivera...
2007 Sep 29 New York Yankees defeat Baltimore Orioles, 11-10
Once their season concludes with today's game, the Orioles will begin preparations for their organizational meetings in Sarasota, Fla. Daniel Cabrera's name is bound to come up. Cab...
2007 Sep 30 New York Yankees defeat Baltimore Orioles, 10-4
Substitutes everywhere It must be true that anyone can manage the New York Yankees. Catcher Jorge Posada did the honors yesterday as part of Joe Torre's season-ending tradition. Posada...
2008 Apr 11 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-1
Yankees Lite? Joe Torre wasn't in the visitors' dugout. The injured captain, Derek Jeter, was not on the field. The turncoat, Johnny Damon, had the night off. And the owner, George Steinb...
2008 Apr 12 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 4-3
Had Joe Torre deigned to leave a note for his successor, Joe Girardi, advising him on the do's and don'ts of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, this almost certainly would have been at, or near...
2008 Apr 13 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 8-5
It was a night off for David Ortiz. For anyone at Fenway Park last night, or watching on TV, it felt like a month. A year. A decade. A century. Take your pick. Saturday night, Fox c...
2008 Apr 16 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 15-9
NEW YORK - Were Josh Beckett to come into Yankee Stadium tonight, take the New Yorkers by storm, and pitch seven or eight innings, there would certainly be sighs of relief from Red Sox re...