Found September 17, 2009 on Bleacher Report:
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With the Los Angeles Angles holding a six-game lead over the Rangers in the AL West and the Red Sox sitting 6.5 up in the wild card (also over the Rangers), the only reason LA's current visit to Fenway should hold our attention is because it is, in all likelihood, a preview of one of the two ALDS series this year.  If last night's game was any indication, the two teams' fourth postseason meeting in five years will be controversial, to say the least. In a baseball fan's kind of game, the two team battled it out last evening for just over four hours. The game saw Boston come back no less the three times to win, 9-8, in the bottom of the ninth. It was that half frame that apparently has a lot of eyebrows raised. The primary issue, at least for Angels' closer Brian Fuentes, had to do with the usually vocal Fenway faithful and an umpiring crew who Fuentes believes were "scared" to make calls against the home team. (See Fuentes' statem...
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