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Joba, Yankees can't avoid the plague

By Jerry Crasnick
ESPN.com

Friday, October 5, 2007

CLEVELAND -- The word "bizarre" doesn't do justice to some events on a baseball field. Randy Johnson once struck and killed a dove with a fastball. A black cat walked in front of the Chicago Cubs' dugout in the summer of 1969, portending the team's late collapse against the Mets. And 15 years ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates actually enjoyed a winning season. Then you come across games like the one that took place in Cleveland on Friday night. They haunt the losers' dreams, make the winners feel b ...

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