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紅襪二大王牌出馬都無法拿下勝利 ..

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...A horror show so frightening it turned Stephen King loopy. The Yankees pummeled Boston 19-8 in Game 3 to push the Sox to the brink  of ALCS extinction. The truly scary part: A-Rod, Sheffield and Matsui a combined 12 hits and 12 RBI...

http://baseball.espn.go.com/mlb/index

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今年對決比上年更精彩,紅襪在落後盤數0:3的情況下,追成平乎

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[B]帝國の崩壞？？？

歷史の逆轉？？？[/B][/SIZE]

              

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/pl ... _jim&id=1906307

[B]畸寶：還我ESPN！！！[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR]           

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St.Louis help us to KO Boston!

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[B]Rolen's homer off Rocket helps Cards win Game 7[/B]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=241021124

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論投手,紅襪較優勝,不過論穩定性則紅雀較好

論擊球手,紅雀2345棒都是強棒...紅襪能否再靠及時雨?(Damon 6 RBI,Ortiz home-run...)

tom

紅雀強棒:Albert Pujols,Scott Rolen,Jim Edmonds,Larry Walker,Renteria/

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[QUOTE=tom]紅雀強棒:Albert Pujols,Scott Rolen,Jim Edmonds,Larry Walker,Renteria/[/QUOTE]

Renteria只是開路先鋒

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[B]Teams combine for 5 errors in 11-9 slugfest[/B]

Game 1 Breakdown

Unsung Hero
Keith Foulke. He came in and recorded the final five outs of the game, including the last two outs in the top of the eighth with the bases loaded.

Goat
Julian Tavarez. He left a pitch over the inside part of the plate to Mark Bellhorn and it cost him dearly as Bellhorn drilled it off the foul pole in right field for a two-run homer, giving the Red Sox an 11-9 victory.

Turning Point
After Manny Ramirez dropped a fly ball in left field off the bat of Larry Walker in the eighth inning -- allowing the Cardinals to tie the score at 9-9 -- Foulke walked Albert Pujols to load the bases. And avoiding the dangerous Pujols worked out perfectly for the Red Sox as Foulke then retired Scott Rolen on a popup to third base and struck out Jim Edmonds looking to end the inning.

It Figures
Boston's top three relievers -- Foulke, Mike Timlin and Alan Embree -- combined to pitch the final three innings and gave up just one earned run.

On Deck
The series stays at Fenway Park for Game 2 on Sunday. Matt Morris will start for the Cardinals on three days' rest. It'll be the first time in his career that Morris will pitch on short rest. He's 0-1 with a 5.29 ERA in three postseason starts. Curt Schilling will get the nod for the Red Sox. He was brilliant in his last start -- allowing one run in seven innings -- leading Boston to a 4-2 win over the Yankees in Game 6 of the ALCS. [/COLOR]


http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=241023102

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[B]Schilling is BAAACK！[/B]

...

Game 2 Breakdown

Unsung Hero
Jason Varitek. While he didn't throw a pitch the entire game, he nursed Curt Schilling along the way to pitching six brilliant innings. Varitek also delivered a key two-run triple, giving the Red Sox an early 2-0 lead.

Goat
The trio of Scott Rolen, Jim Edmonds and Reggie Sanders. The three went a combined 0-for-10.

Turning Point
Bottom of the first. Cardinals starter Matt Morris retired the first two batters in the inning and then proceeded to walk Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz in succession, putting runners on first and second. Morris then threw a pitch down and in to Varitek, who drilled it to deep center field for a two-run triple. The Red Sox never gave up the lead after that.

It Figures
Morris issued four walks and hit a batter in his 4 1/3 innings of work. Three of those five free passes came around to score.

On Deck
The series shifts to St. Louis for Game 3 on Tuesday. Pedro Martinez will start for the Red Sox. In four postseason outings -- three starts -- he's 1-1 with a 5.40 ERA. Jeff Suppan will get the call for the Cardinals. He's 2-1 with a 2.84 ERA in three postseason starts, including being the winning pitcher in the Cards' NLCS-clinching win over the Astros.[/COLOR]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=241024102

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[QUOTE=射手shooter]論投手,紅襪較優勝,不過論穩定性則紅雀較好

論擊球手,紅雀2345棒都是強棒...紅襪能否再靠及時雨?(Damon 6 RBI,Ortiz home-run...)[/QUOTE]

Rolen,Edmonds完全冇貨賣,難怪被炒

tom

86 yrs..

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[B]What to do without the curse?[/B]

Wednesday, October 27

Eric Neel: It's funny, this is like finally getting a date with the hot girl and figuring out that she's a vapid bore, or getting to meet your favorite athlete and having them barrage you with unbearable stories of their youth ... the anticipation had so much more character to it. Until now, the Red Sox were characters out of a Greek tragedy or Russian novel.


It's not that we begrudge the Sox or their fans, it's just that the rest of us feel a sense of loss. We needed the Red Sox Nation to be what it was, we needed someone to hold down the suffering fort, to absorb a certain amount of heartache and loss. That's not fair, and it will move to some other crew in some other town or sports, but it will never be so perfect as it was here, such a perfect marriage of anguish on the field and off, such an ideal blend of smart fans with elephantine memories and a team that so creatively found ways to turn the screw on them year after year


David Schoenfield: Eric, are you second-guessing the end of the Curse? Did you really want it to live on? What are you, Dan Shaughnessy's agent? Were you going to co-write the script for the DVD of the Red Sox 2004 season highlights -- "Even more of a kick in the groin than 2003!" Did you have licensing rights to the phrase "Threepeat! Sox Choke in 2005 too!" -- to be sold on T-shirts around Yankee Stadium next year. Or, horror of horrors -- are you really a closet Yankee fan and Caple just intimidated you into being quiet all these years?

Eric: Those T-Shirts were sweet, man. We had Matt Groening do the artwork. No, but seriously, I'm not second-guessing the end of it. All good things must pass. I'm just doing what you do when something dies. Mourning.

And seriously, the Sox fans (not the players of course), should mourn it a little, too. Not tonight, or even six weeks from now, but some time, when they realize some crucial element of their identity's been traded in for the ring.

Now the question is, where do we go for some semblance of what Sox Nation has so generously provided us for three generations?

David: Interesting point, Philosopher Eric. Do the Sox become just another franchise? I mean, are they just another Minnesota or Baltimore or Oakland -- a team we will care about only because we hope they can beat the Yankees? Are they now just a bunch of guys who need haircuts instead of a group of likeable Curse-busters? I mean, once the celebration ends (sorry, there will be no mourning from anywhere but St. Louis and certain regions of NYC), do we even care about the 2005 Boston Red Sox?

Eric: We still like them -- great bunch of hitters and personalities -- but the whole Red Sox thing, and I'm including the fan base, the media machine, all of it, is less special, is all I'm saying. The fight now for suffering supremacy shifts to Chicago, doesn't it? And forget the Cubs for a minute. I'm thinking of the White Sox. Haven't won the Series since 1917, haven't reached the World Series since 1959. And unlike their slightly yuppier brethren on the North Side, Sox fans, by and large, are working on the deep, common-folk channels of heartache and want-to. The media story has been the Cubs, and the Cubs are, by a wide margin, Chicago's team, but to me, it's the White Sox Nation who ought to become America's team now.

David: Here's the problem I have with the White Sox: they threw the Series in 1919; they deserve to be cursed, to tell you the truth. As for the Cubs and their fans, I just hope they don't embrace all the whiny, self-loathing, often pathetic mindset of RSN. We can only hope and pray that Jay Mariotti isn't penning a book called "Curse of the Billy Goat." I mean, he already gets enough face time on ESPN. Plus, the Cubs' management doesn't really seem to care about winning anyway; and let's face it, Wrigley Field is more social scene than ballpark filled with die-hard baseball fans. So, really, I vote for the Cleveland Indians as most cursed baseball team ... 1948 and counting & and, sorry, Cubs fans, losing a World Series in which you lead Game 7 in the bottom of the ninth inning is infinitely more painful than losing Game 6 and blaming a fan &


Eric: Let me get this: you're blaming the current White Sox and their fans for the Black Sox scandal? Dude, you're hardcore.

David: Hey, don't blame me, curses are hardcore. Just ask the Bambino.

Eric: I'm just saying, the key to these things is the fans, I think. And if it comes to Chicago, I cast my vote with the Southsiders.

And speaking of the Black Sox scandal, any chance the Cards took cash to look this bad four nights in a row?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=second/guessing

    

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國盟MVP: Barry Bonds

NEW YORK -- Barry Bonds won his record seventh NL MVP award in a walk.

Capping a season of suspicion and success, the San Francisco Giants left fielder became the oldest player to win the award. The 40-year-old received 24 first-place votes and 407 points Monday in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America to earn the award for the fourth straight season.

"I don't know if one is better than the other. They're all overwhelming," Bonds said.

Los Angeles third baseman Adrian Beltre was second, getting six first-place votes and 311 points, and St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols was third with one first and 247 points. St. Louis third baseman Scott Rolen got the other first-place vote and finished fourth, followed by teammate Jim Edmonds.

Bonds is the only player with more than three MVP awards and the only one to win more than two in a row. Willie Stargell was previously the oldest to win it, sharing the 1979 NL award with Keith Hernandez at 39.

Among the four major North American professional sports, he trails only the NHL's Wayne Gretzky, who won nine MVPs. In the NBA, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leads with six.

Bonds said the lack of a World Series title motivates him, and he intends to play two more seasons.

"I want that championship," he said. "I think that's the one thing that's eluding me from enjoying these other accomplishments."

Bonds became only the third player to hit 700 career homers, and with 703 trails only Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714). But following his grand jury testimony in a federal investigation, he repeatedly was questioned whether he used steroids.

His personal trainer has been indicted for illegal distribution of steroids, but Bonds has denied using illegal steroids. He wouldn't address an Oct. 16 report by the San Francisco Chronicle, which said it obtained from an anonymous source a recording of the trainer, Greg Anderson, on which Anderson says Bonds used performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.

"I don't have an answer, I really don't. I don't really care about all this stuff. I really don't," he said. "I don't owe anyone a response to anything."

Bonds' season was unparalleled statistically. He hit .362 to win his second NL batting title in three seasons and shattered the major league record with a .609 on-base percentage, topping the previous mark of .582 he set two years ago.

He walked 232 times, 34 more than the previous record he set in 2002 and more than 100 better than anyone else in baseball this season, and his 120 intentional walks obliterated the old mark of 68, also set by Bonds in 2002.

Bonds hit 45 homers in 373 at-bats, while Beltre hit a major league-leading 48 in 598 at-bats and Pujols had 46 in 592.

"I never think I have a chance to win any awards being walked," he said. "Your chances are minuscule compared to their chances."

Bonds' .812 slugging percentage led the major leagues for the fourth straight season but fell short of the record he set at .863 in 2001. He hit 45 homers and matched Aaron's NL record of eight 40-homer seasons, trailing only Ruth's major league mark of 11. He also became the first player in major league history with 13 consecutive 30-homer seasons.

Bonds earned a $500,000 bonus for winning the award, and Beltre, Edmonds, Pujols and Rolen earned bonuses of $50,000 each.

The AL MVP award will be announced Tuesday.

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美聯MVP: Vladimir Guerrero

NEW YORK -- Vladimir Guerrero had such a huge impact during the final week of the season that voting for the American League Most Valuable Player award wasn't even close.

Guerrero easily defeated his competitors on the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees on Tuesday, becoming just the fifth player to switch leagues and earn the honor in his first season with his new team.

The Anaheim Angels right fielder received 21 of 28 first-place votes and 354 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Yankees right fielder Gary Sheffield finished second with five first-place votes and 254 points. Boston players split the remaining two first-place votes, with left fielder Manny Ramirez finishing third with 238 points and designated hitter David Ortiz winding up fourth with 174 points.

Guerrero was prepared for a close vote.

"I was in no way expecting it to be the way it came out," he said through a translator during a conference call from the presidential palace in the Dominican Republic.

Guerrero, 28, signed a $70 million, five-year contract with the Angels last January after eight seasons with the Montreal Expos. He hit .337 with 39 homers and 126 RBIs as Anaheim won the AL West, and led the league with 124 runs and 366 total bases.

He batted .371 in September with 10 homers and 23 RBIs, and went 14-for-30 (.467) with six homers and 11 RBIs in the last six games of the season, helping the Angels finish one game ahead of Oakland.

Anaheim manager Mike Scioscia said Guerrero was "at times carrying our team single-handedly."

"When he came to our team, our expectations were obviously very, very high, and he met every one of them," Scioscia said. "Not many players can do what he did the last week."

The only other non-rookies who became MVPs in their first AL seasons were Baltimore's Frank Robinson (1966), Chicago's Dick Allen (1972) and Detroit's Willie Hernandez (1984). In the NL, Kirk Gibson accomplished the feat with Los Angeles in 1988.

Houston's Roger Clemens won the NL Cy Young Award last week following his first season in the league. Clemens won six Cy Youngs in the AL.

Guerrero became the second Angels player to win, joining Don Baylor (1979). He is the fourth Dominican to be MVP, following Toronto's George Bell (1987), the Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa (1998) and Oakland's Miguel Tejada (2002). He became the ninth straight player from the AL West to win.

"Vlad has got such a great temperament. For as talented as he is, he's probably the most unassuming superstar you'd ever be around," Scioscia said. "He's got probably the smallest ego of anybody that has accomplished what he has."

Guerrero was especially happy the three of the top four finishers in the voting were Dominican.

"It's in our blood," he said. "We grow up with baseball."

Guerrero gets a $500,000 bonus for winning the award and Ramirez $100,000 for finishing third. Ortiz didn't get anything for finishing fourth -- but would get $400,000 for finishing second through fifth in his contract that starts next season.

Tejada, now with Baltimore, gets a $300,000 bonus for finishing fifth, and Detroit's Ivan Rodriguez gets $100,000 for winding up 10th.

Anaheim was swept by Boston in the first round of the playoffs, Guerrero's first time in the postseason, and he hopes to get back every year.

"It really left a taste in my mouth," he said.

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[QUOTE=tom]St.Louis help us to KO Boston![/QUOTE]Do you know how sad for me after Red Sux got the world champion, I am not willing to know anythings about MLB until now.

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[QUOTE=Barker]Do you know how sad for me after Red Sux got the world champion, I am not willing to know anythings about MLB until now.[/QUOTE]
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