Red Sox-Red Passion

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Yankees, Red Sox lock up on FOX .

With the American League East title hanging in the balance, the Yankees and Red Sox lock up on Saturday afternoon in the Bronx in one of the final five meetings of the season between the two rivals in FOX's Saturday Game of the Week.
The season has been one of ups and downs for both teams. Boston took six of seven games from New York in April, but the Yankees stormed back to grab a 10 1/2-game lead over the Sox in August.

Just when it seemed like the Yankees had their seventh straight division crown all sewn up, the Boston won 20 of 22 games, cutting into the lead and setting up a dramatic stretch run.

"I bet you they're very worried about us," said Red Sox slugger David Ortiz. "They know we've got our hitting doing well and our pitching doing well. Their pitching is not doing too good."

New York won 9 of 11 games entering the weekend, getting themselves tuned up for the crucial series.


"You have a lead for a reason," said Yankees manager Joe Torre. "You can afford the luxury of losing games, not that you ever say to yourself that you're allowed to lose two out of three. Our mentality is to add to the lead, but the way Boston played while we played .500, we realized we were lucky to have a lead."

Jon Lieber takes on the Red Sox for the third time this season, looking for his first decision against Boston. Lieber has a 4.91 ERA in his two starts, allowing six runs over 11 innings. The right-hander has won four of his last five decisions, showing some consistency as he completes his recovery from Tommy John elbow surgery.

Derek Lowe toes the rubber for Boston, looking for his sixth win in his last seven decisions. Lowe has faced the Yankees four times in 2004, going 2-2 with a 7.08 ERA. That record includes a 1-1 mark and 5.73 ERA at Yankee Stadium.

"I've always been of the school -- and the majority doesn't agree with me -- that the second game is the momentum game," said Torre.

Whichever team loses out in the division will likely earn a trip to the playoffs via the Wild Card, but the Yankees aren't going to be satisfied with backing into the postseason.

"We assumed at the beginning, going into Spring Training, that it would come down to this," said Yankees captain Derek Jeter. "It's easy for people to look at the last few weeks and say we never expected this, but over 162 games, things find a way to even themselves out.

"I don't know what they think, but we're not trying to get to the postseason," added Jeter. "We're trying to win the division."

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Historia nuk harrohet,lavdi te madhit Jason Varitek.

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Lavdi se godet tjetrin me grusht edhe mbrohet me masken e catcher? Un kete lavdin do e quaja gjest te ulet antisportiv. Megjithate ne fund te fundit kjo eshte pjese e yankees VS Red Sox... Ama sic tha i madhi Gary Sheffield ... Let Varitek bring his stuff on... We will drill him down ... Kete radhe nuk jeni ne Feenway.... Quhet YANKIE stadium.. Legjenda qe Babe Ruth ndertoi me lavdine e tij.. Teatri qe ka qe ne deshmimtar i 26 world series kur ne Boston luteshin qe te rrezohet mallkimi 100 vjecar i Femijes (The curse of the Bambino...)

Ah mer kolomb qe me bo me shkrujt knej se te kam thone qe kur e hoqen ate temen e Yankees pa lene gjurme sme bohet me fol per Baseball... Ama perulemi perpara rivalitetit me te ndezur te botes...
Pitcherat qe do nisin serine jane
[b]Arryojo 9 fitore edhe 9 humbje VS 'El Duque' Hernandez 8 fitore ASNJE humbje

Team W L PCT. GB

Yankees 92 54 .630 -

Red Sox 88 57 .607 3.5

Orioles 67 77 .465 24.0

Devil Rays 62 82 .431 29.0

Blue Jays 60 86 .411 32.0

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Red-Sox-Yankees 3-2.
Nje fitore mrekulli,GJIGANDE.e KUQE si vete pasioni i milionave fansa bostoniane ne tere Ameriken.
Morrem zvarre ne menyren me barbare Mariano Riveren per here te dyte kete vit,dhe peshorja e Bayernit tregon dy e gjysem.
Celsat e suksesit Dave Roberts,Orlando Cabrera,Johny Damon,dhe pa dyshim Keith Foulke.

Vetem shiu qe filloi per pak kohe munt ti shpetonte sot Bomberet e Bronxit,qe vetem bombere nuk jane me.

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NEW YORK -- Maybe this is The Year.
There were signs Friday night. The biggest sign was on the Yankee Stadium scoreboard, indicating clearly that the Boston Red Sox had defeated the New York Yankees, 3-2.

This was the biggest game of the year to date, and the Red Sox prevailing against the Yankees was tangible evidence that things could be different. Of course, these two teams will meet five more times in the next nine days. But for the moment, life will be easier to take in Red Sox Nation with the Sox trailing the Empire by 2 1/2 games instead of 4 1/2 games.

And the Red Sox got well against Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, scoring two in the top of the ninth. This is not an unknown occurrence. Rivera has been less Future Hall of Famer and more relief pitcher against Boston than any other team. This was Rivera's first blown save since July 24. That last blown save was against, of course, the Red Sox. But still, as Johnny Damon, who produced the game-winning hit, said of the rally, "It says we can come back against the best."

Damon later amended that slightly, saying that Boston's success against Rivera "starts with luck. This is the best closer in the history of the game."

This victory, achieved in this way, was a most pleasant development the Red Sox could hope for in what seems like their eternal pursuit of the Yankees. But there is more than this one night on their side of the argument.

Since the trade of Nomar Garciaparra, Boston has gone 33-11. Not only is that .750 baseball over seven weeks, it is .750 baseball at exactly the right time. And since they trailed the Yankees by 10 1/2 games on Aug. 15, the Red Sox have gone 25-5. It realistically doesn't get any better than that.

And this is not the same Red Sox team that has finished second six straight times to the Yankees. The fingerprints of the new Red Sox were all over their ninth-inning comeback.

Dave Roberts was inserted as a pinch-runner and stole a base, putting himself in scoring position for Orlando Cabrera's game-tying single. These are two people the Sox didn't have two months ago. And both have added crucial dimensions.

Boston didn't have anybody to steal that base earlier this season, unless it was Damon, but the starting center fielder isn't going to be available as a pinch-runner in the ninth. Cabrera's play at shortstop has solidified the infield defense of the Red Sox. And if he is not the overall run producer that Garciaparra is, he is more likely to be available on a game-to-game basis. And he was just what the Red Sox needed with the game on the line Friday night.

Up until the ninth, this had been one of those nights that tended to convince you that the Yankees still had a certain inevitability attached to them, especially in regard to the Boston Red Sox.

The Yankees' heroes in what was surely going to be a 2-1 victory over the Red Sox were going to be John Olerud and Tanyon Sturtze.


Olerud hit a fifth-inning home run to give the Yankees the winning margin. This would be the same John Olerud who was released in July by the Seattle Mariners, who were convinced that he could no longer hit. And the 2004 Mariners have had a lot of practice dealing with players who can no longer hit.

But Olerud has had a long and productive career, and in New York, back in a pennant race, he is reviving that career. The Yankees have been known to have that same effect on a lot of people.

But with Sturtze, there was not that kind of track record. Oh, there was that one year where he was 11-12 with Tampa Bay and people thought a corner might have been turned, but then he encored at 4-18 and there was no corner and no turn, either. The man entered the competition Friday night with a lifetime ERA of 5.32.

But there he was, coming in after the second rain delay, to replace starter Orlando Hernandez. And Sturtze produced 3 2/3 innings of shutout relief, including five strikeouts, an apparent Yankee savior-for-a-night.

But then, at the 11th hour, the storyline changed completely. And maybe that was a microcosm of Boston's season. Underachieving early, the Red Sox are now the hottest thing in either league. And even their arrival in Yankee Stadium failed to cool them off.

"We're playing baseball now," Damon said. "We were definitely embarrassed the way we were playing this game earlier in the season. We couldn't run to first base, we couldn't go from first to third, we couldn't score. But then we make a big trade, we get three very good players that help us play defense, that can run the bases.

"Things have looked up ever since. We're playing very good ball now and we just need to keep it going.

"I think our team was bound to play better, regardless. But at least we knew when we got Orlando Cabrera, this was a guy who was going to be in the lineup every day. Nomar wasn't quite healthy. We have somebody who is pretty dependable there, somebody who's won a Gold Glove, somebody who's still getting better."

Damon is also doing his bit and then some. He hit a home run in the third to give the Red Sox a 1-0 lead. He has reached base in 26 consecutive games. He has scored at least one run in 23 of his last 27 games. Boston has won the last 23 games in which he scored a run.

It is still uphill for the Red Sox. But isn't it always?

This outcome Friday night -- defeat turned into victory at Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox playing what looked like small ball to discover a couple of runs -- was well outside the New York-Boston norm. It didn't look like any other year.

Perhaps -- maybe, who knows? -- it could be The Year.

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Dave Roberts,sapo ka bere qe tabelat elektronike te bronxit te shkruajne
Sox-Yankees 2-2

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Magjia e "Krishtit",dhe i madhi Damon ,hits per ti dhene mundesine Gabe Kapler te vulose permbysjen e madhe 3-2 .Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssss.

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Shkaktari i fillimit te katraures per Yankees ishte ky,Orlando Cabrera,duke festuar fitoren me Poky Reese.

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Yankees -Red Sox 14-4
Kjo e sotmja ishte me teper se tragjedi.
Cdo gje mbaroi pa filluar loja kur ne 1IP.Lowe u bombardua nga Bomberet e bronxit dhe rezultati 5-0 perfundoi lojen pa filluar mire.
Cuditem si ky "jeziti" lol,Bayern nuk paska dal me cifte gjahu,apo do i jene lagur sacmet nga shiu i New Yorkut.

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Neser ndeshja e trete dhe e fundit
Pitching matchup
BOS: RHP Pedro Martinez

16-6, 3.43 ERA in 2004
1-0, 1.93 ERA vs. NYY in 2004
10-8, 2.80 ERA lifetime vs. NYY
NYY: RHP Mike Mussina

11-9, 4.76 ERA in 2004
0-1, 5.40 ERA vs. BOS in 2004
16-12, 3.13 ERA lifetime vs. BOS


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