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Monday 1 october 2018

THE

RYDER

DANCE

New York Yankees’ Gary
Sanchez, left, watches as
Boston Red Sox’s J.D. Martinez
celebrates his three-run home
run during the fourth inning of
a baseball game in Boston,
Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018.
Associated Press

Red Sox claim
more titles,

beating Yankees

10-2 in finale

By JIMMY GOLEN, Team Europe takes
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON (AP) — Mook- Ryder Cup home
ie Betts claimed the big
league batting title with
one more hit and J.D. Mar-
tinez hit his 43rd homer
Sunday to lead the AL East
champion Boston Red Sox
into the playoffs with their
franchise-record 108th win,
a 10-2 victory over the wild-
card winning New York
Yankees.
Five days before they
might meet in the postsea-
son for the first time since
Boston’s epic comeback in
their cathartic 2004 World
Series championship run,
the teams ran out 41 play-
ers in a meaningless Game
162. Red Sox manager Alex
Cora compared it to the fi-
nal day of spring training.
Now they turn their atten-
tion to the playoffs: New Europe’s Alex Noren, right, celebrates with
York has to go through Thorbjorn Olesen, second left, after winning
Oakland first, in Wednes- his a singles match on the final day of the
day night’s AL wild-card 42nd Ryder Cup at Le Golf National in Saint-
game. The winner will be in
Boston for Game 1 of the Quentin-en-Yvelines, outside Paris, France,
AL Division Series, starting Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018.
Friday. Associated Press
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