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Classics fall by wayside in Series

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:45 AM
By Phil Rogers


Chicago Tribune

BOSTON -- No one has won World Series jewelry yet. The event doesn't start until tonight.
It just feels like it's already over.
For a variety of reasons, including the calendar and the strength of the two teams, it feels like it wrapped up with the Boston Red Sox's inevitable, inexorable victory over the Cleveland Indians in the American League championship series.
This isn't meant as a slight toward the Colorado Rockies, who have won 21 of their past 22 games, but it's going to be hard to top the 10 days of hardball staged between the American League's two best teams.

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Five Rockies you need to know

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:33 AM

Matt Holliday

Why you think you've heard of him: People keep talking about him as a National League MVP candidate, but he's stuck in the Mountain time zone, so you've missed most of his NL-high 216 hits and 137 RBI.
What you need to know: In mid-September, the public address announcer in Coors Field started a three-part drumbeat and flashed the letters M-V-P when Holliday came to the plate. Rockies fans, unfamiliar with having such a candidate, caught on slowly.

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Top of lineup lights fire under Sox

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:32 AM
By Jack Curry


The New York Times

One player is rapidly losing his hair. The other has a shaved head. One jokes that he weighs 115 pounds. The other does not joke and says opponents usually dislike him. One is a pest. The other is a bigger pest.

They are Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis, the first two hitters in a potent Boston Red Sox lineup. Pedroia is the small, thinning-haired second baseman. Youkilis is the bald-headed, hard-headed first baseman.
Pedroia and Youkilis had everything to do with why Boston had another stylish postseason comeback, overcoming Cleveland's three-games-to one advantage, to advance to the World Series, which opens tonight in Fenway Park.

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Beatdown in Beantown
Red Sox deliver haymaker to National League upstarts
Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:59 AM
By Ronald Blum


Associated Press
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Kevin Youkilis of the Red Sox beats the tag from Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba to score a run in Game 1.



BOSTON -- Josh Beckett, Dustin Pedroia and the Boston Red Sox were revved up and ready. Not so the Colorado Rockies, who showed up in Beantown looking rusty, not rested.
Back in the World Series with no Bambino's curse to worry about, the Red Sox flattened the Rockies 13-1 last night in the World Series opener.
Beckett got off to the most overpowering start since Sandy Koufax, Pedroia became only the second player to lead off the Series with a home run, and then a relentless offense led by Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz racked up hit after hit.

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Sox fan going to Series after receiving heart

Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:58 AM
By Jamie Stengle


Associated Press
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Donna McWilliamAssociated Press
Dr. Kristine Guleserian will attend the World Series with patient Andrew Madden.



DALLAS -- While waiting for a heart transplant, 13-year-old Andrew Madden and his surgeon talked a lot about the World Series prospects for their favorite team, the Boston Red Sox.
They even talked about somehow making a trip to see a game. Now, about three weeks after successful surgery for a new heart, Andrew is set to go with Dr. Kristine Guleserian and his mother to Fenway Park for Game 2 tonight against the Colorado Rockies.
It started with the Red Sox hat Guleserian gave Andrew for luck as they waited for a donor. Less than a day later, a heart for Andrew had been found.

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World Series Game 2: Schilling keeps heat on
Red Sox pitchers make sure Rockies offense stays quiet
Friday, October 26, 2007 3:47 AM
By Mike Fitzpatrick


Associated Press
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The Red Sox's Mike Lowell goes from first to third on a fourth-inning single. Lowell scored on Jason Varitek's sacrifice fly.



BOSTON -- First a blowout, then a nail-biter. October ace Curt Schilling and Boston's stingy bullpen figured out another way to stop Colorado.
Relying more on guile than pure gas, Schilling pitched the Red Sox to a 2-1 victory last night and a two-games-to-none lead in the World Series over the suddenly stagnant Rockies.
Mike Lowell hit a tiebreaking double in the fifth inning and the Red Sox got 3 2/3 innings of shutout relief from Hideki Okajima and Jonathan Papelbon to win their sixth straight Series game, including a sweep of St. Louis in 2004.

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Series notebook: Schilling's days in Boston might be over

Friday, October 26, 2007 3:50 AM



Associated Press

BOSTON -- Curt Schilling came to Boston four years ago with the single goal of helping the Red Sox win the World Series.
He might do it twice.
In what could be his final start in a Boston uniform, Schilling held the Rockies to one run in 5 1/3 innings in Game 2 of the Series last night to lead the Red Sox to a 2-1 victory over Colorado.
Schilling struck out four while allowing four hits and two walks and gave Boston a chance to sweep the Series at Coors Field. Unless the Rockies can win twice at home to force a sixth game, Schilling has pitched his last game before he becomes eligible for free agency.

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With no DH, Youkilis sitting as Ortiz takes first base

DENVER -- Kevin Youkilis made it clear Friday that a little pine time in the Rocky Mountains isn't going to crush his spirit. A prominent Boston hitter must take a seat in Denver, and Youkilis never expected it to be Mike Lowell, with his 120-RBI bat and slick defense, or David Ortiz, owner of three Silver Slugger awards.

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