the yankees

[smazza]

will always own the bosox

[smazza]

Gary Sheffield and the New York Yankees battered Pedro Martinez, opening some breathing room in the AL East.

 

 

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Sheffield, Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada homered off an ineffective Martinez, and Mike Mussina gave the Yankees another excellent outing Sunday in New York's 11-1 rout of the Boston Red Sox.

Alex Rodriguez also connected in the second consecutive offensive outburst by the Yankees, who outscored their longtime rivals 25-5 the past two days after losing 3-2 Friday night.

By taking two of three in the series, the first-place Yankees moved 4 1/2 games ahead of Boston, their largest margin since before games of Aug. 31.

The teams play another three-game set next weekend at Fenway Park. By then, the Red Sox might be too far back to catch New York, though they still have a comfortable lead in the wild-card race.

Boston dropped to 25-7 in its last 32 games and lost its first series since dropping two of three Aug. 13-15 against the White Sox. The Red Sox lost consecutive games for only the second time since Aug. 7.

Martinez (16-7) lasted only five-plus innings and allowed eight runs, matching a season worst. He had pitched at least six innings in 18 straight starts since June 2 at Anaheim, when Vladimir Guerrero had nine RBI.

The Boston ace, who couldn't hold a three-run lead in the eighth inning of Game 7 in the 2003 AL championship series at Yankee Stadium, has seven losses for the first time since 1998, his first year with the Red Sox. He has dropped two crucial starts in a row.

 

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Mussina (12-9) allowed one run and seven hits in seven innings, striking out eight. He has won three starts in a row since losing a career-worst five consecutive decisions. The right-hander has allowed only four earned runs in his last four starts spanning 30 innings.

He struck out Jason Varitek three times. Varitek went 0-for-10 with eight strikeouts in the series.

The Yankees came out swinging against Martinez, who fell behind 2-0 after four pitches. Rodriguez singled up the middle with one out in the first, and Sheffield lofted a high fastball into the left-field corner for his 35th homer of the season, prompting chants of "MVP! MVP!"

With his parents cheering him on in the stands, Jeter connected on Martinez's first pitch in the third, making it 3-0.

Boston scored in the fifth on Orlando Cabrera's bloop double and Johnny Damon's RBI infield single, but the Yankees broke it open with a five-run sixth.

Bernie Williams drew a leadoff walk, and Posada tucked an opposite-field liner into the first row down the left-field line. It was Posada's second homer in two days, and it gave New York five players with at least 20 homers.

Martinez then walked John Olerud, and Ruben Sierra dropped a double in front of left fielder Manny Ramirez, who got a late jump.

Miguel Cairo lined a two-run single down the right-field line, chasing Martinez. He trudged slowly off the mound to a chorus of boos and derisive chants from the sellout crowd of 55,142.

Cairo scored on Sheffield's double-play grounder, and Olerud added an RBI single in the seventh.

Rodriguez hit his 35th homer in the eighth, a two-run shot off Pedro Astacio.

[Velcro]

You are wrong!

[smazza]

am i right until redsox beat yankees

and   history demonstrates yankees have owned red sox in past

[Velcro]

you are wrong ;D

[ChiTownBull]

You are wrong!

keep telling yourself that as you remember Boone & Bucky Dent.

[Velcro]

Who are they

Past is past and means nada...

[ChiTownBull]

Who are they

Past is past and means nada...

unless the sux would have pulled off game 7 last yr....right.

[Velcro]

History is fine to brag about... but it doesn't make a difference in the future..

Curses only exist to the feeble minded.

The team that wins this year wins because they earned it... be it yankees, cubs, sox, twins... whoever.

[ChiTownBull]

History is fine to brag about... but it doesn't make a difference in the future..

Curses only exist to the feeble minded.

The team that wins this year wins because they earned it... be it yankees, cubs, sox, twins... whoever.

Yes it does but when some of the same players are on the current team that have lost in recent years it can get in their heads.