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| Weve spent all week covering the numerous storylines leading up to the 101st Grey Cup, from Kent Austin and Andy Fantuz returning to Saskatchewan in Black and Gold to the Roughriders looking to become the third straight team to win the championship at home. Those storylines however, mean little come Sunday when all that remains are two teams battling for the Grey Cup on a very, very cold field at Mosaic Stadium. The Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats finished the regular season just a game apart, with the Riders finishing second in the West with an 11-7 record and the Ticats second in the East at 10-8. From there each team took the long route to the Grey Cup, hosting and winning division Semi-Final matchups before pulling off upsets on the road in the Finals to book their Grey Cup tickets. The similarities dont end there, with each team led by electrifying running backs frequently featured on highlight reels and veteran quarterbacks with questions still left to answer. Both Darian Durant and Henry Burris carry reputations of QBs who fade when the lights shine brightest. Durant will be looking to finally put those questions to bed with his first Grey Cup win while Burris, who has previously won a Grey Cup as a starter, will be looking to cement his already stellar CFL legacy. The Roughriders were the team to beat in the first half of the regular season, winning eight of their first nine including their only two meetings with the Ticats, before running into some struggles in the second half. Conversely, Hamilton struggled early on until their defence found their stride down the regular season stretch and into the playoffs. The highs and lows are in the past now as each team heads into the Grey Cup at the top of their game. Saskatchewan will enjoy a decided home field advantage Sunday. Can it propel them to a win, keeping intact the streak of host teams winning the Grey Cup, or will the Ticats be partying like its 1999? Your! 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Baltimore at Boston Erik Bedard makes his first start in more than two weeks this evening when the reeling Boston Red Sox continue a four-game series with the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park. The Red Sox split a day/night doubleheader with the Os on Monday, dropping the first game 6-5, before exploding in the nightcap for an 18-9 win. "It was a well-needed win," said Boston catcher Jason Varitek. Boston held a nine-game lead on the Tampa Bay Rays early in September, but has seen that advantage dwindled down to just two games, as the Red Sox have won just five of their 19 games played this month. "At this point, we just need wins," said infielder Jed Lowrie, who belted a three-run homer. "We dont need anything else. It was a big win and weve just got to use the momentum from tonight and carry it into tomorrow and the rest of the year." Boston, which dropped three of four over the weekend to the Rays, is also five games back of the New York Yankees in the American League East with a three- game set against its hated rivals on tap for this weekend. "Its a nice win and we control our own destiny at this point," said Jacoby Ellsbury, who hit an inside the park home run as part of seven-run seventh inning in Mondays game two. "So we know if we go out and play baseball like we can, well be in good shape." Bedard goes tonight in his first start since September 3. The oft-injured left-hander, who pitched for Baltimore from 2002-07, has been sidelined with a lat strain. He is 5-9 on the year with a 3.50 ERA, but hasnt lasted longer than six innings in any of his six starts since joining Boston in a seven-player deal with Seattle at the July 31 trade deadline. Bedards 1-2 with a 3.66 ERA with the Red Sox. Baltimore, meanwhile, will counter with Rick VandenHurk, who has given up four runs in six innings of work this season. This will also be his first-ever start against the Red Sox. Boston has handled the Orioles all season, going 9-4 against them, including a 6-1 mark in Beantown. Tampa Bay at New York The Tampa Bay Rays got themselves back into the American League wild card mix with a series win in Boston over the weekend. Now they turn their focus towards the division, as they start a four-game series with the American League East-leading New York Yankees. The Rays enter this set two games back of the Red Sox in the wild card race after being nine out as late as September 2.dddddddddddd. Tampa is also seven games back of the division-leading Yankees, but play seven of their final 10 games against them. The Rays, though, helped themselves immensely this weekend, taking three of four from the reeling Red Sox. "I thought we played good baseball," Tampa manager Joe Maddon said after his teams 8-5 win on Sunday. "We played well. We pitched well. We caught the ball. We ran the bases well. We had good at-bats when we needed them. There was a real strong sense of camaraderie among the group. All that stuff was there. So I thought we just played really good baseball in a great venue against a very good ballclub in a very meaningful time of the year. Im very proud of our guys." No team at least nine games out of a playoff spot through Sept. 2 has ever reached the postseason. It wont be easy for them tonight, as they go up against right-hander Ivan Nova, who hasnt lost since June 3 and is 11-0 with a 3.35 ERA in his last 14 starts. Nova did not get a decision on Wednesday in Seattle, as he allowed a run and five hits in 7 1/3 innings. Still, Nova, who is 15-4 on the season with a 3.81 ERA, is unbeaten in his last 11 decisions and should he win today he would become the first Yankees rookie since Atley Donald in 1939 to win 12 in a row. Nova beat the Rays the last time he squared off with them and is 1-0 in three starts against them with a 5.17 ERA. He will be opposed by righty Wade Davis, who is 10-9 with a 4.41 ERA. Davis was defeated by Baltimore on Wednesday, as he allowed four runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 frames. Davis has faced the Yankees five times and is 2-2 with a 3.81 ERA against them. Davis will be facing a Yankees team that witnessed some history on Monday, as Mariano Rivera became the all-time saves leader in New Yorks 6-4 win over Minnesota. "It feels great. I wasnt expecting this but thank God it happened. Thank God its over too," said Rivera. "I cant describe that feeling. It was priceless. I didnt think it could feel like that." Rivera induced a Trevor Plouffe groundout, a Michael Cuddyer flyout and caught Chris Parmelee looking with a back-door cutter in the ninth to earn the 602nd save of his career, surpassing the mark set by Trevor Hoffman. "Its a number that I really dont think well see someone surpass in our lifetime," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said about the record. "Its hard to fathom, but people came to the stadium today and got a treat." Curtis Granderson belted his 41st home run in the win for the Yankees, who lead the AL East by five games over the Red Sox. The Yanks have won six of their 11 meetings with the Rays this season. wholesale jerseys wholesale nfl jerseys china jerseys from china nfl jerseys cheap authentic cheap jerseys ' ' ' |
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