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Elias Says ...

By Elias Sports Bureau, Inc.
Special to ESPN Insider

Friday, August 5, 2005

A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports: Major League Baseball • The Red Sox entered Friday night's game in Minnesota with an eight-game winning streak. That streak was snapped with a 12-0 loss. The last major-league team to end a winning streak of at least eight games with a double-digit shutout loss was the 1977 Phillies, who won 13 straight and then lost 13-0 at Montreal. The last American League team was the 1948 Red Sox, who (exactly like the 1977 Phillies) won 13 ...

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