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Projo SoxTalk with McAdam: Do the Yankees have their number?

Click here to listen to today's edition of projo SoxTalk with Sean McAdam. Today's topics: last night's classic matchup; Doug Mientkiewicz comes up big; Curt Schilling looks good again; do the Red Sox have fundamental matchup problems with the Yankees? Hideki Okajima; the absence of Kevin Youkilis and Manny Ramirez; the coming series with Toronto.

Following are some excerpts from Sean's comments.

Schilling: "Schilling's done a decent job keeping the ball in the ballpark in his non-Yankee starts, and I think he continues to pitch very well, and has pretty much solidified the number-two spot in the rotation for the postseason, but he does have to be careful about keeping the ball in the ballpark."

Matchup problems: "Until this weekend, from the Red Sox standpoint, I would have been concerned about the team's top pitchers' inability to shut down the New York lineup, but I think in the last four meetings ... they've come up with good outings. It wasn't until that Schilling start in New York [to end last month's series] that any member of the Red Sox rotation had a quality start against this Yankee team this year. ... That to me was the thing that maybe the Red Sox had to get over. ... I think these teams are about as evenly matched as you can get, and should they meet in the ALCS, I think you have to start with a blank slate."

Toronto: "The Blue Jays have a pretty decent starting rotation ... although the Blue Jays are way out of contention and are struggling just to finish over .500, it will not be an easy three nights pitching-wise for the Red Sox, and minus Youkilis -- and certainly it looks like Manny won't be back until Tampa later this week -- they might be hard-pressed to mount much offense these three nights."

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larceny | September 17, 2007 9:26 AM link