Red Sox Look to Schilling Again

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"He really shouldn't have pitched," Boston manager Terry Francona said Friday before putting the team's season in [Curt Schilling]'s hands again. "And I can't remember one moment ever thinking he wouldn't pitch. And not only that, but that he wouldn't win. And it probably wasn't fair. So I guess that kind of sums up how I feel about Schill."

"It's very simple now," Schilling said. "I go out and do my job (today) and we win, or I don't and we lose."

Schilling gave up five runs in 4 2/3 innings in Game 2, then spent six days watching his team try to extend the series long enough to give him another chance. But that was only the second-worst playoff start of Schilling's career: The worst was in Game 2 of the '04 series against the Yankees, when Schilling gave up six runs and limped off the mound, unable to come out for the fourth inning or his next scheduled start, either.

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Red Sox Look to Schilling Again

Is there one more comeback left?

By Jimmy Golen

BOSTON -- Before the bloody sock, Curt Schilling was a pitcher in ruin: Injured, ineffective, unsure...

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