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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Red Sox 6. Oakland 4:
And that is 6-0 for Josh Beckett…

Pretty much the same stats as Curt Schilling the day before, but with a very different outcome: Josh Becket pitched 7 inning, only giving up 3 runs on 6 hits, striking out 7 and walking 2. And now joins Mercenary Roger as the most recent Red Sox pitcher to win his 1st 6 starts of [...]

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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Red Sox 4, Oakland 5–in 10 Innings:
OK, what just happened here??

Were the Sox not leading 4-2 going into the 9th inning at Fenway, with Papelbon on the mound? Is this not practically a guarantee of success? Apparently not–not on a night where Jonathan Papelbon throw 35 pitches, strikes out no one and gives up a 2 run homer to .190 hitting rookie Travis Buck in [...]

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