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For Red Sox, it keeps getting uglier

Updated: April 7, 2011, 8:43 AM ET
By Gordon Edes | ESPNBoston.com

CLEVELAND -- Score one for the sky-is-falling crowd.

If this wasn't the worst loss yet for the Boston Red Sox, it was certainly the weirdest, an 8-4 defeat to the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday night that dropped them to 0-5, matching the 1996 team that also opened 0-5 and finished out of the money. In the 101 seasons Boston has been in the American League, this is only the sixth Sox team to lose its first five games, and only the third to do so since the end of World War ...

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