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A little more than a quarter of the way through, the ongoing saga known as Yankees-Red Sox 2009 has been all Boston, all the time.

With three dramatic wins at Fenway Park, followed by two rainy contests at the new Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox have won the first five of the 18 Yankee-Red Sox matchups this year. So much for losing out on that Mark Teixeira thing.

There's rivalry-related pride in that, yes, but in a division considered the best in baseball, the results in the win column are the most satisfying," Dustin Pedroia said.

"A lot of those games could have gone either way. IT's definitely nice that we're on the winning side of them. We won a lot of tight games, and that's definitely big when you look up at the end of the year."

Jason Bay has slaughtered the Yankees so far this year; it's safe to say that the Red Sox wouldn't be 5-0 without his .500 batting average, 3 home runs, and 10 RBI against New York. But he's found that, as big as the games are billed to be, they're just good divisional wins.

"I think sometimes it gets played up to be a little bit bigger than it is. I do understand that it's a huge rival... but you don't go home feeling any more satisfied than you would beating another team, just because they're your rival," Bay said.

Obviously there's a little more emotion in these games, which makes it a little different than just a regular series. For the most part, I think it's good, but once you go through it a little bit, you realize it's just like another series," Bay said.

Whatever keeps those home runs coming, Jason

 Tags  Boston Red Sox Dan Barbarisi Dustin Pedroia JAson Bay

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