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...have home field advantage and had the best at-home record in the Majors this season. They have two lefties starting against a Sox lineup that is filled with lefties (Johnny Damon, Ortiz, Todd Walker, Trot Nixon). Nixon will not be 100 percent throughout the series, regardless. Jason Varitek has a career average of under .235 against Oakland. Mueller hits much better against righties than lefties. Nomar has been terrible on the road this season...
...batting champ who was hitting .387 as of Saturday. They have a new hero in center fielder Carl Everett, picked up in the off-season and now hitting .329, with 22 homers and 63 runs batted in. They have budding stars in right fielder Trot Nixon and catcher Jason Varitek and a dominating ninth-inning pitcher in Derek Lowe, who has saved 16 games...
...blown calls deflated Red Sox rallies. Troy O'Leary and Jason Varitek missed home runs by decimal points. History repeats itself, 58 years later...
...when the old warhorse Brett Saberhagen tested out his reconstructed shoulder. As Williams said in postgame interviews Monday, this is a team that the city of Boston loves, both for its flashy stars (Martinez and Nomar Garciaparra) and its less shining, but still stellar, players (Troy O'Leary, Jason Varitek, Derek Lowe--the last two products of a wonderous trade of Heathcliffe Slocumb to Seattle...