Word: sox
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BOSTON--Mike Witt pitched a five-hitter and the California Angels jolted Boston ace Roger Clemens for four runs in the second inning last night to beat the Red Sox, 8-1, in the first game of the American League playoffs...
Witt, meanwhile, flirted with the first no-hitter in playoff history, holding the Red Sox hitless for 5-2/3 innings before Wade Boggs beat out an infield chopper to third for a single. The hit broke a string of 16 straight batters retired by Witt after walkingBoggs, the major league batting champion, leadingoff the first...
Sometimes the news becomes more numerical than physical. Four Blacks killed by police. Hmm, we think, that's two more than yesterday. One more and the Sox clinch. We forget that those numbers are people, that those paragraphs are pain. That the boy was a real boy, with a real rubber bullet in his brain...
BOSTON--The Boston Red Sox and California Angels say their minislumps are over. They're ready to start the American League playoffs...
...Sox dropped their final four games of the season at home to the New York Yankees, including a 7-0 loss Sunday. Boston equalled its season high with four straight defeats, and scored only five runs on 18 hits in the process...