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| All Games | 60-76 | -26 | 57-75 | 3.8 | 0.243 | 0.311 | 4.4 | 0.258 | 0.318 | | Road Games | 31-36 | -2.9 | 28-36 | 3.9 | 0.233 | 0.294 | 4.2 | 0.253 | 0.311 | | vs Left-handed Starters | 20-23 | -7.6 | 16-25 | 3.9 | 0.246 | 0.319 | 4.7 | 0.256 | 0.317 | | Past 7 Games | 4-3 | +2.4 | 3-4 | 4.9 | 0.237 | 0.300 | 4.9 | 0.244 | 0.305 | | Dome Games | 3-6 | -1.8 | 4-5 | 3.1 | 0.206 | 0.265 | 4.1 | 0.232 | 0.301 | | Day Games | 17-22 | -8.2 | 15-22 | 3.7 | 0.231 | 0.307 | 4.1 | 0.246 | 0.307 | | Division | 23-34 | -13.7 | 26-30 | 3.8 | 0.240 | 0.305 | 4.8 | 0.260 | 0.322 |
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| All Games | 3.8 | 0.243 | 0.311 | 136 | 4666 | 1132 | 352 | 101 | 0.02 | 497 | 465 | 1113 | 49 | 996 | 140 | 78 | 136 | 80 | | Road Games | 3.9 | 0.233 | 0.294 | 67 | 2359 | 550 | 163 | 59 | 0.03 | 251 | 205 | 588 | 28 | 469 | 68 | 28 | 65 | 37 | | Lefty Starters | 3.9 | 0.246 | 0.319 | 43 | 1478 | 364 | 127 | 31 | 0.02 | 159 | 157 | 358 | 12 | 330 | 46 | 32 | 42 | 38 |
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| All Games | 3.28 | 1.265 | 411 | 166 | 150 | 390 | 36 | 130 | 376 | 19-25 | 31 | 16 | 66% | | Road Games | 3.12 | 1.299 | 181.7 | 71 | 63 | 179 | 19 | 57 | 168 | 7-13 | 20 | 8 | 71.4% |
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| All Games | 66-71 | -21.3 | 61-69 | 3.9 | 0.249 | 0.316 | 3.8 | 0.235 | 0.296 | | Home Games | 30-38 | -23 | 33-32 | 4.1 | 0.254 | 0.325 | 3.7 | 0.227 | 0.288 | | vs Right-handed Starters | 50-51 | -13.2 | 45-54 | 3.9 | 0.250 | 0.318 | 3.6 | 0.229 | 0.291 | | Past 7 Games | 2-5 | -4.2 | 3-4 | 3.0 | 0.211 | 0.264 | 4.3 | 0.242 | 0.301 | | Dome Games | 30-38 | -23 | 33-32 | 4.1 | 0.254 | 0.325 | 3.7 | 0.227 | 0.288 | | Day Games | 25-25 | -5.9 | 20-27 | 3.8 | 0.242 | 0.311 | 3.8 | 0.230 | 0.285 | | Division | 27-30 | -9.1 | 25-30 | 4.1 | 0.253 | 0.320 | 4.0 | 0.243 | 0.302 |
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| All Games | 3.9 | 0.249 | 0.316 | 137 | 4681 | 1166 | 352 | 99 | 0.02 | 511 | 458 | 955 | 55 | 1020 | 132 | 76 | 77 | 69 | | Home Games | 4.1 | 0.254 | 0.325 | 68 | 2267 | 575 | 161 | 43 | 0.02 | 263 | 239 | 466 | 31 | 520 | 62 | 31 | 34 | 38 | | Righty Starters | 3.9 | 0.250 | 0.318 | 101 | 3432 | 857 | 253 | 69 | 0.02 | 377 | 343 | 689 | 46 | 756 | 94 | 63 | 57 | 56 |
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| All Games | 3.47 | 1.209 | 431 | 172 | 166 | 363 | 42 | 158 | 444 | 18-24 | 31 | 13 | 70.5% | | Home Games | 3.51 | 1.137 | 220.7 | 88 | 86 | 179 | 21 | 72 | 225 | 11-11 | 11 | 5 | 68.8% |
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| 8/18/2014 | WORKMAN(R) | LA ANGELS | WILSON(L) | 2-4 | L | -110 | 9.5 un | U | 9 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 0 | | 8/19/2014 | WEBSTER(R) | LA ANGELS | WEAVER(R) | 3-4 | L | +115 | 9.5 un | U | 8 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 0 | | 8/20/2014 | BUCHHOLZ(R) | LA ANGELS | RICHARDS(R) | 3-8 | L | +115 | 8 ov | O | 11 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 2 | | 8/21/2014 | DE LA ROSA(R) | LA ANGELS | SHOEMAKER(R) | 0-2 | L | +120 | 9 un | U | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 0 | | 8/22/2014 | KELLY(R) | SEATTLE | HERNANDEZ(R) | 3-5 | L | +160 | 7.5 un | O | 5 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0 | | 8/23/2014 | WORKMAN(R) | SEATTLE | YOUNG(R) | 3-7 | L | -125 | 8.5 un | O | 9 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 2 | | 8/24/2014 | WEBSTER(R) | SEATTLE | IWAKUMA(R) | 6-8 | L | +145 | 8 ev | O | 13 | 15 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 0 | | 8/25/2014 | BUCHHOLZ(R) | @ TORONTO | HAPP(L) | 4-3 | W | 105 | 9 un | U | 8 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | | 8/26/2014 | DE LA ROSA(R) | @ TORONTO | DICKEY(R) | 11-7 | W | 135 | 9 un | O | 14 | 9 | 0 | 15 | 13 | 2 | | 8/27/2014 | KELLY(R) | @ TORONTO | STROMAN(R) | 2-5 | L | 130 | 9 un | U | 5 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | | 8/29/2014 | RANAUDO(R) | @ TAMPA BAY | ARCHER(R) | 8-4 | W | 165 | 7.5 un | O | 11 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 3 | | 8/30/2014 | WEBSTER(R) | @ TAMPA BAY | ODORIZZI(R) | 0-7 | L | 145 | 8 un | U | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1 | | 8/31/2014 | BUCHHOLZ(R) | @ TAMPA BAY | COBB(R) | 3-0 | W | 140 | 7 un | U | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | | 9/1/2014 | DE LA ROSA(R) | @ TAMPA BAY | SMYLY(L) | | | 9/2/2014 | KELLY(R) | @ NY YANKEES | GREENE(R) | | | 9/3/2014 | RANAUDO(R) | @ NY YANKEES | KURODA(R) | | | 9/4/2014 | WEBSTER(R) | @ NY YANKEES | CAPUANO(L) | | | 9/5/2014 | BUCHHOLZ(R) | TORONTO | HUTCHISON(R) | | | 9/6/2014 | | TORONTO | HAPP(L) | | | 9/7/2014 | KELLY(R) | TORONTO | DICKEY(R) | | | 9/8/2014 | | BALTIMORE | | |
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| 8/19/2014 | ARCHER(R) | DETROIT | SCHERZER(R) | 6-8 | L | +110 | 6.5 un | O | 8 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 0 | | 8/20/2014 | ODORIZZI(R) | DETROIT | PORCELLO(R) | 0-6 | L | -130 | 7.5 un | U | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 | | 8/21/2014 | COBB(R) | DETROIT | PRICE(L) | 1-0 | W | -115 | 6.5 un | U | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | | 8/22/2014 | SMYLY(L) | @ TORONTO | STROMAN(R) | 8-0 | W | 100 | 8.5 un | U | 14 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 8/23/2014 | HELLICKSON(R) | @ TORONTO | BUEHRLE(L) | 4-5 | L | 100 | 8.5 ov | O | 11 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 1 | | 8/24/2014 | ARCHER(R) | @ TORONTO | HUTCHISON(R) | 2-1 | W | 100 | 8.5 un | U | 10 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | | 8/25/2014 | ODORIZZI(R) | @ BALTIMORE | TILLMAN(R) | 1-9 | L | 105 | 7.5 un | O | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 1 | | 8/26/2014 | COBB(R) | @ BALTIMORE | CHEN(L) | 2-4 | L | 100 | 7.5 un | U | 8 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | | 8/27/2014 | SMYLY(L) | @ BALTIMORE | GAUSMAN(R) | 3-1 | W | -105 | 8 un | U | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | | 8/28/2014 | HELLICKSON(R) | @ BALTIMORE | NORRIS(R) | 4-5 | L | 115 | 8 un | O | 7 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 0 | | 8/29/2014 | ARCHER(R) | BOSTON | RANAUDO(R) | 4-8 | L | -175 | 7.5 un | O | 9 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 0 | | 8/30/2014 | ODORIZZI(R) | BOSTON | WEBSTER(R) | 7-0 | W | -155 | 8 un | U | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | | 8/31/2014 | COBB(R) | BOSTON | BUCHHOLZ(R) | 0-3 | L | -150 | 7 un | U | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 0 | | 9/1/2014 | SMYLY(L) | BOSTON | DE LA ROSA(R) | | | 9/2/2014 | HELLICKSON(R) | TORONTO | DICKEY(R) | | | 9/3/2014 | ARCHER(R) | TORONTO | STROMAN(R) | | | 9/4/2014 | ODORIZZI(R) | TORONTO | BUEHRLE(L) | | | 9/5/2014 | COBB(R) | BALTIMORE | CHEN(L) | | | 9/6/2014 | SMYLY(L) | BALTIMORE | GAUSMAN(R) | | | 9/7/2014 | HELLICKSON(R) | BALTIMORE | NORRIS(R) | |
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| |  | BOSTON: BOSTON (AP) - Last season was one to remember for fans of the Red Sox - and one to forget for the players.
Soon after Boston's third World Series championship in 10 years, that bearded bunch decided to put it behind them and focus on what they must do to keep winning.
''It was a dream come true last year,'' pitcher Jake Peavy said. ''It's a new year. I think that's been a slogan of ours on the text messages that we've been exchanging with the guys, `Hey turn the page, it's a new year, it's 2014.' We haven't done anything and, obviously, some teams in our division got awfully better.''
The Red Sox won't be sneaking up on them, not after rebounding from a 69-93, last-place finish in the AL East to a 97-65 record, a 28-win improvement.
''You've got the bull's-eye on your back,'' second baseman Dustin Pedroia said. ''You want to get everybody's best, so I think it's going to be a fun challenge for everybody.''
John Farrell's disciplined, businesslike approach worked in his first year as Boston's manager. That, and the influx of players to improve the toxic clubhouse chemistry, made the one season under the animated Bobby Valentine seem like a distant memory.
Those players, including Jonny Gomes, Mike Napoli and Shane Victorino, return. The Red Sox lost center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury to the New York Yankees then signed Grady Sizemore as a possible replacement. Sizemore missed the last two seasons with knee and back injuries that required surgery but has had a healthy, productive spring training.
''In this group, no one's going to let anybody sit back and relax,'' Pedroia said. ''We're always going to push each other and make sure that we're respecting the game and playing the game the right way. If we do that, we should be all right.''
| | TAMPA BAY: ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - The Tampa Bay Rays feel they have everything it takes to win the World Series and aren't afraid to say it.
The budget-minded franchise that's played into October four out of the past six seasons boosted payroll instead of cutting back this winter in hopes of making another strong run for the playoffs.
''The goal is to be the team that plays the last game of the year and win,'' third baseman Evan Longoria said.
''I felt like we were really close to breaking through last year,'' the three-time AL All-Star added. ''And with the team that we have this year, I'm really excited to go out and try to prove to ourselves that we are good enough to do that.''
The Rays won 92 games a year ago, including a Game 163 tie-breaker to claim a wild-card spot, and have compiled the second-best record in baseball over the past six seasons.
That's not enough for manager Joe Maddon and a hungry collection of players who reported to spring training feeling as if there's unfinished business to tend to after losing to eventual World Series champion Boston in the AL division round.
''I love that our guys feel and think that way. I think it's great,'' Maddon said.
''You'll hear that rhetoric in a lot of clubhouses, whether it's baseball, football or basketball, but you've got to back it up. You have to really believe it. Not just say it,'' he said. ''Some groups say it because they're supposed to say it. Some groups say it because they believe it. Our guys believe it.''
That confidence was bolstered by the Rays' ability to keep most of the key components from last year's roster together, including lefty David Price, who anchors one of baseball's deepest pitching rotations.
Price and just about everybody else expected the 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner to be traded, however the Rays wound up giving him a $14 million one-year deal, in addition to re-signing first baseman James Loney and landing free agent closer Grant Balfour in moves that represent a big chunk of a club-record payroll of around $80 million.
Andrew Friedman, the team's vice president of baseball operations, also traded for catcher Ryan Hanigan and infielder Logan Forsythe to give Maddon additional flexibility filling out a batting order around Longoria and 2013 AL rookie of the year Wil Myers.
''Talent can't win every game for you, but it's a good start,'' said Loney, who signed a three-year, $21 million deal - largest since Tampa Bay has given to a free agent since Stuart Sternberg became principal owner.
''If we can stay healthy, if we can do the things we're capable of doing,'' second baseman Ben Zobrist add, ''we certainly have as good or better chance than any other team in the league to win it all.''
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| | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PA SPORTSTICKER AL PREVIEW (BOSTON-TAMPA BAY) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*Red Sox-Rays Preview* ======================
By TAYLOR BECHTOLD STATS Writer
Boston (59-76) at Tampa Bay (66-70), 1:10 p.m. EDT
Drew Smyly wasn't expected to replace David Price when he was acquired at the trade deadline, but he's certainly pitched like an ace since joining the Tampa Bay Rays.
The left-hander seeks his fourth straight victory as the struggling Rays close out a four-game home series against the short-handed Boston Red Sox on Monday.
Smyly was considered a solid addition when he was acquired by Tampa Bay (66-71) from Detroit in the three-team deal that sent Price to the Tigers on July 31.
Smyly (9-10, 3.31 ERA), however, has pitched better for the Rays than Price has for Detroit. Since losing at Oakland in his debut Aug. 5, he's gone 3-0 with a 0.88 ERA while throwing at least seven innings in his last four starts.
"This is probably one of the better stretches I've had as a starter," he told MLB's official website.
Smyly continued his outstanding work by allowing one run in seven innings of a 3-1 road victory over AL East-leading Baltimore on Wednesday. He surrendered two hits for the second consecutive start.
"Certainly the future looks bright for him and Tampa having him in the rotation, but we'll see what baseball longevity has to say," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "He obviously has a chance to be a good one. Already is."
Smyly is 2-0 with a 2.70 ERA in four career appearances - two starts - against the Red Sox (60-76). He allowed two runs - one earned - in six innings of a 6-2 win over Boston on June 6.
David Ortiz is 4 for 7 with a home run off Smyly, though Mike Napoli has gone 0 for 7 with four strikeouts in the matchup. Napoli is 3 for 37 in his last nine contests.
Rookie Mookie Betts has gone 4 for 11 with five RBIs in helping Boston take two of the first three in this set. He had a double and an RBI single in Sunday's 3-0 victory that gave the Red Sox a 4-2 record on their 10-game trip.
Dustin Pedroia, though, was sidelined one day after leaving with concussion-like symptoms suffered on a blow to the head Saturday. The four-time All-Star has hit .316 in his last 32 games.
"We're holding him out for obvious reasons," manager John Farrell said. "We hope this is a short-term thing, but we'll have to go through the normal protocol, and that is continued exams by doctors and making sure that there are no symptoms."
Since posting a 2.94 ERA over an eight-start stretch, Rubby De La Rosa (4-5, 3.81) has recorded a 6.46 mark in his last three. He allowed three runs over 4 2-3 innings of an 11-7, 11-inning win at Toronto on Tuesday.
In his first start of the season, the right-hander gave up four hits and struck out eight in seven scoreless innings of a 7-1 victory over the visiting Rays on May 31.
Ben Zobrist had the only extra-base hit off De La Rosa with a double, but he's 0 for 10 in this series and has batted .149 in his last 18 games against Boston, including last postseason.
The Rays have batted .212 while losing 10 of 15, managing three hits Sunday. They've also slumped defensively with at least one error in eight consecutive games - their longest such streak in 10 years.
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