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4 August 2008
d Sox in the AL East. Strong starting pitching by Andy Sonnastine, James Shields, Matt Garza, Edwin Jackson and Scott Kazmir has kept them at the top, and they'll have to continue to roll as they reach their respective career highs in innings if the Rays are to make the playoffs. The Red Sox swept Oakland after getting pounded by the Angels, and Jason Bay has looked good so far in Boston. After losing the first two games to the Angels on Thursday and Friday, the Yankees bounced back to split the four-game series over the weekend. Xavier Nady is hitting .385 with three homers and 10 RBI in eight games since coming over from the Pirates and was named co-Player of the Week in the AL.
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23 June 2008
If he sticks in the rotation, he’d join C.C. Sabathia, Dontrelle Willis, Ian Snell and Edwin Jackson as the only black starters in baseball. That doesn’t sound like much until you realize that in 2004, it was only Sabathia, Willis and Darren Oliver. Thompson would bring the count to six, double what it was four years ago.
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