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Brett Myers did better at the plate than on the mound, going 3-for-3 with three RBIs, as the Phillies overcame another homer by Manny Ramirez and took a 2-0 series lead over the Dodgers with an 8-5 win.

Daisuke Matsuzaka blanked Tampa Bay for seven innings Friday night while Hideki Okajima and Justin Masterson pitched out of a jam in the eighth in a 2-0 win in Game 1 of the American League Championship series.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Oct. 10 -- By midway through the first inning, they must have been running through complex bullpen scenarios on the Boston Red Sox' bench, so awful was the start to Daisuke Matsuzaka's night, so tenuous were his chances of getting even three outs. By the start of the seventh,...

PHILADELPHIA Not too many people understand Brett Myers. Not too many want to. But Charlie Manuel does. Typical of him.

Tampa Bay SP James Shields could not overcome Dice-K's superb outing on Friday in Game 1 of the ALCS. Shields allowed just two runs on six hits over 7 1/3 innings but picked up the loss at home. He walked two and had six K's.

He lived on the edge, but Daisuke Matsuzaka once again delivered for the Red Sox, says Lee Jenkins.

The call came Friday morning, finding Charlie Manual in the coaches' office, discussing with his staff the day to come. Bad news from back home in West Virginia. June Manuel, who gave the world 11 children and one major league manager, was gone at the age of 87. There would be no more post-game phone calls, as there were nearly every night, from Charlie Manuel's biggest fan.

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He defies baseball logic. Dice-K Matsuzaka carries a no-hitter into the seventh despite rarely getting ahead of any Rays hitters in Boston's 2-0 win in Game 1 of the ALCS. Dice-K thrives on living dangerously, Danny Knobler says.

Dan Johnson isn't on the Rays' playoff roster, but he's at Tropicana Field, working out before the American League Championship series with the club he helped to get to the postseason. Johnson, who opened the season with the A's in Japan, was claimed by the...