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NEW YORK -- The second half of the season began virtually flawlessly for the Boston Red Sox.They hit three home runs, Steven Wright pitched six solid innings and the bullpen shut the door.Now Boston hopes Eduardo Rodriguez has fixed his flaws during a two-week stint in the minor leagues.Rodriguez returns to the rotation Saturday afternoon when Boston continues its three-game series with the New York Yankees.The Red Sox have won eight of their last 10 games after Fridays series-opening 5-3 win. Ryan Hanigan, Travis Shaw and Xander Bogaerts homered off Michael Pineda and Wright allowed all three of his runs in the sixth before escaping trouble.Rodriguez has had similar success to Wright in his brief experience against the Yankees. He was on the disabled list earlier this year when Boston took four of six against New York, but last year Rodriguez was 3-1 with a 2.22 ERA in four starts against the Yankees.He faced the Yankees on Sept. 28 when he allowed one run and seven hits over six innings in a 5-1 winRodriguezs success against the Yankees was part of an impressive rookie season that saw him go 10-6 with a 3.85 ERA. He has struggled to follow it up, going 0-3 with a 10.03 ERA over his last five starts.The left-hander was so ineffective June 27 at Tampa Bay -- when he allowed nine runs and 11 hits in 2 2/3 innings -- that it earned him a demotion to Triple-A Pawtucket.In Triple-A, he made two starts while allowing two runs in 10 innings as he used some new mechanics.(He) looks like hes gaining some comfort with the hand position that has widely been talked about, manager John Farrell told reporters last week.Meanwhile, the Yankees hope CC Sabathia has better fastball command than Pineda, who allowed the home runs on his fastball and lasted five-plus innings Friday.Sabathia has experienced a career revival, but has struggled recently.Sabathia is 0-2 with an 8.22 ERA in his last four starts after going 5-4 with a 2.20 ERA in his first 11 outings.The last time Sabathia pitched was a week ago in Cleveland when he took a no-decision. Sabathia allowed five runs and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings but the Yankees wound up with a 7-6 victory in 11 innings.Despite recent struggles, the veteran lefty is 7-8 with a 3.44 ERA in his last 24 starts since Aug. 1.Sabathia is 12-12 with a 4.47 ERA in 32 starts against the Red Sox. With the Yankees, he is 10-8 with a 4.64 ERA in 25 starts against them.Sabathia will be pitching for a team 8 1/2 games behind the first-place Baltimore Orioles in the American League East. The Yankees largest deficit has been nine games on two occasions in late June.And with each day that ticks by without much traction in the standings, the Yankees will face questions about urgency.Of course there is (urgency), New York manager Joe Girardi said. Weve talked about it. We talk about it in here, weve talked about it with the group in there. Of course there is because you start to run out of days.We have to focus on winning series, especially against teams that are in our division, Yankees right fielder Carlos Beltran added. We are playing Boston, next team will be Baltimore for four games here, so we have to get it done.Nike React Element 55 Dames . -- Playing time has been limited for Maxim Tissot this season, so the Montreal Impact defender made the most of his first scoring opportunity on Saturday. Nike Just Do It Schoenen Kopen . The Olympic champion curler and TSN curling analyst immediately went online to look at the Halls long list of honoured members. Thats when the enormity of the honour sunk in. http://www.vapormaxsalenederland.com/nike-react-element-87-goedkoop-kopen.html . As he recorded his 23rd and 24th points of the evening, a segment of the sellout Air Canada Centre crowd expressed their appreciation for the Raptors point guard with a smattering of MVP chants. Nike Vapormax Plus Heren Sale . Woodson said during a radio interview Thursday that the Knicks Carmelo Anthony doesnt get the same calls as other superstars. Nike Vapormax Goedkoop . Scott won the Australian PGA last week in his first event in Australia since winning the U.S. Masters in April. American Matt Kuchar, ahead by two strokes with four to play and even with Scott with one to go, double-bogeyed the 18th after taking two shots to get out of a bunker.CHASKA, Minn. -- Lee Westwood has seen a little bit of everything - and mostly success -- in nine previous Ryder Cup appearances for Europe.The Englishman has played on seven winning teams and is 20-15-6 in his matches. This year he needed an at-large pick from good friend Darren Clarke, the European captain, to make the team.And given all the changes made by the Americans leading up to the 41st Ryder Cup, Westwood says the pressure will be clearly on the opposition when matches begin Friday morning at Hazeltine National.We take a lot of pride in that, that the USA are taking it so seriously to bring this task force together and bring Davis [Love III] in as captain again, Westwood said. We take a lot of pride in that. Gives us a lot of confidence and puts added pressure on them.You form a task force and it doesnt go right this week, where do you go from there? Youve done pretty much all you can do. So well see how that goes.The U.S. formed a Ryder Cup task force in the aftermath of a third straight defeat two years ago at Gleneagles in Scotland. It was the Americans sixth loss in the past seven Ryder Cups, and their eighth in the past 10.The idea was to get the players more involved, tweak the points formula, and put forth a system of continuity that can be built on for future Ryder Cups in terms of assistants and captains.The task force was disbanded when Love was named captain in February 2015. It has been repllaced by a committee consisting of Love, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and three PGA of America executives, with the idea of having a system in place for the future.ddddddddddddIts very much like the model the Europeans have done, with tremendous success, in bringing out their best golf, and I give them a lot of credit in their ability to lift each other up to great heights, Mickelson said of the U.S. changes. To play some of their best golf together in these events, and when you get together as a team and work together, you can achieve much greater success than you ever can as an individual. And weve seen that for decades from the European side.Mickelson and J.B. Holmes are the only members of the U.S. side this year to have played on a winning Ryder Cup team. Westwood is among six European players who have been on a winning team, although the squad is filled out by six Ryder Cup rookies.It fills us with a lot of confidence, Westwood said. A lot of the players on the European side have had multiple experiences of winning Ryder Cups. And on the other side of that, on the U.S. team, a lot of their players have had multiple experiences of losing Ryder Cups. Winning is a habit, and a lot of the players on the European team have that habit and know what the experience is like and what to do. ' ' '