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BALTIMORE -- Its payback time for the Baltimore Orioles, who have dominated the Boston Red Sox this season after being bullied by their AL East rivals for the better part of 15 years. nfl jerseys china . Mark Reynolds homered twice and drove in four runs, Omar Quintanilla also went deep, and Baltimore beat Josh Beckett and the Red Sox 7-1 Tuesday night. Wei-Yin Chen (11-7) gave up one run, nine hits and a walk in six-plus innings for the Orioles, who moved 10 games over .500 (63-53) for the first time since June 24. Chen allowed at least one hit in each inning but was effective in minimizing the damage. Baltimore is 7-3 against Boston this year, including 5-1 at Fenway Park. The Orioles have won the season series against the Red Sox only once since 1996, going 10-9 in 2004. The trend seems to have reversed, and the Orioles can only hope it lasts. "Weve been playing really well against them all year," said Chris Davis, who had two hits and an RBI. "It was big for us to get the win and kind of set the tone for the series." This isnt the same Boston club that lost in Baltimore on the final day of the season last year to fall out of the playoff picture. This Red Sox team is 57-60, and Dustin Pedroia acknowledged after the game that there were a series of meetings in New York last month to discuss the teams decline under first-year manager Bobby Valentine. "I know the coaches had a meeting, Bobby had a meeting, we all had a meeting," Pedroia said. "Basically when I spoke I said we all had to be better. That means the owners, Bobby, coaches, especially the players. I have had one problem with Bobby earlier in the year and I went into his office and talked to him like a man and he talked to me like a man. And weve been great. Weve had a great relationship." Pedroia said Valentine should keep his job. "I dont think Bobby should be fired," he said. "Listen, we havent played well and I am not going to blame anything on Bobby and I dont think anybody else is. Its on the players, man. Last year wasnt on (manager Terry Francona). I know he took it hard. We all did. Its on the players, man." Beckett (5-10) surrendered six runs and six hits, including two home runs, in 5 1-3 innings. "You have to keep the ball down," he said. "This isnt a real friendly ballpark (for pitchers)." Its been a nightmare season for the right-hander, 1-6 in 12 starts since May 20. In his past two outings against Texas and Baltimore, Beckett has yielded a combined 14 runs and five homers in 10 1-3 innings. Reynolds hit a solo shot off Beckett in the fifth and greeted Mark Melancon with a three-run drive in the sixth. After totalling 113 homers over the three previous seasons, Reynolds has only 11 this year. It was his first multihomer game since last Sept. 21, when he connected twice against Beckett. Playing in his fifth major league game, Baltimores Manny Machado was held hitless for the first time. But he made two fine plays at third base, where he has yet to make an error. Boston stranded 12 and went 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position, a shortcoming fueled by cleanup hitter Adrian Gonzalez. He made the final out in the first, third and fifth innings, stranding a runner on second or third each time, and finished 0 for 4 with a walk. Quintanilla hit Becketts first pitch of the third inning over the right-field wall to put the Orioles up 1-0. He has four homers this season (including one with the Mets), after hitting only two in 227 games before this year. Boston used a double by Cody Ross and an RBI single by Carl Crawford to pull even in the fourth. Pedroia tripled with two outs in the fifth before Gonzalez grounded out. In the bottom half, Reynolds hit an opposite-field drive over the right-field wall to put Baltimore back on top. Reynolds homer, on Melancons first pitch, capped a five-run sixth. NOTES: A moment of silence was observed before the game for former Boston star Johnny Pesky, who died Monday. ... The Orioles placed LHP Troy Patton (ankle) on the 15-day DL and recalled RHP Steve Johnson from Triple-A Norfolk. ... The Red Sox activated RHP Andrew Bailey (thumb) from the 60-day DL. He got the last out in the eighth. Boston traded C Kelly Shoppach to the Mets following a waiver claim. Ryan Lavarnway started behind the plate for Boston and went 1 for 4. ... Bostons Jacoby Ellsbury singled in the first inning to extend his hitting streak against Baltimore to 37 straight games, the longest by a Red Sox player against one team. ... Beckett has a strikeout in each of his 299 major league games, the second-longest streak to begin a career since 1900 behind Dwight Gooden (349). ... Rookie Miguel Gonzalez starts for the Orioles on Wednesday night against Bostons Aaron Cook, who makes his first career appearance at Camden Yards. cheap nfl jerseys . LOUIS -- The St. cheap jerseys from china . Segares played in 178 games over eight seasons, scoring 11 goals and adding 13 assists. Bone, a first-round pick in the 2010 SuperDraft, made 17 appearances in three seasons.LAS VEGAS - Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a perfect 42-0 in the ring and has dodged significant jail time several times in domestic violence cases in Las Vegas and Michigan. But his courtroom streak came to an end Wednesday when a Las Vegas judge sentenced him to 90 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to a reduced battery domestic violence charge and no contest to two harassment charges. The case stemmed from a hair-pulling, punching and arm-twisting argument with his ex-girlfriend Josie Harris while two of their children watched in September 2010. "Punishment is appropriate," Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa said after a prosecutor complained that Mayweather has been in trouble before and hasnt faced serious consequences. "No matter who you are, you have consequences to your actions when they escalate to this level of violence," she said. Good behaviour could knock several weeks off Mayweathers sentence. but he will likely serve most of the sentence set to begin Jan. 6, said Officer Bill Cassell, a Las Vegas police spokesman. Mayweather and his manager, Leonard Ellerbe, declined comment outside the courtroom. The jail time raises doubts about a possible showdown between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, a champion fighter from the Philippines against whom Mayweathers welterweight success is usually measured. A long-awaited fight between the two men regarded as among the best of their generation has been delayed by stalling techniques and verbal sparring. The two men have a defamation lawsuit pending in Las Vegas federal court stemming from statements by Mayweather that he suspects Pacquiao was taking performance-enhancing drugs. Mayweather returned in September from a 16-month layoff to continue his undefeated record with a controversial knockout of Victor Ortiz in Las Vegas. Mayweathers promoters have a May 5 date reserved against an as-yet unnamed opponent at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. But if Mayweather is jailed until the end of March, it could cut into the usual eight-plus weeks he takes to train. Keith Kizer, executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission, said licenses for all fighters expire on Saturday, and most, including Mayweather, have yet to reapply for next year. He said Mayweather would be asked on his license application if he was convicted of any misdemeanours or felonies. Kizer said commissioners would then decide whether to approve or deny his license or hold a hearing to talk about it. The commission has been in contact with prosecutors and Mayweathers lawyers as cases against him have progressed, he said. "The commissioners are definitely up to speed on it and will be when it comes time to consider any kind of application," he said. Lee Samuels, a spokesman for Pacquiaos promoter Top Rank and Bob Arum, declined comment on Mayweathers sentencing and its possible effect on a match. Mayweather, 34, stood still in a striped olive vest and showed no reaction as the judge sentenced him to six months in the Clark County jail then suspended half the term. She gave him credit for three days previously served in jail and ordered him to complete 100 hours of community service, pay a $2,500 fine and complete a yearlong domestic violence counselling program. The plea deal avoided trial on felony and misdemeanour that could have ggotten Mayweather 34 years in state prison if he was convicted on all counts. wholesale nfl jerseys. Mayweather also is expected to plead no contest next week to a separate misdemeanour harassment charge involving a 21-year-old homeowner association security guard who was poked in the face during an argument about parking tickets placed on cars outside Mayweathers house. Mayweathers lawyer, Karen Winckler, said she may appeal what she called the unusual sentence handed down Wednesday. In court, she called Mayweather "a champion in many areas" and aired a list of his good deeds, including buying toys for children for Christmas and promising to donate $100,000 to breast cancer research by the end of December. Winckler argued that the public would benefit more if Mayweather performed 100 hours of community service with children. Mayweather is also on the hook for 40 hours of community service with the Las Vegas Habitat for Humanity Project under a South Carolina federal judges order for dodging a deposition in a music rights lawsuit. Mayweather has a Jan. 31 deadline on that court order. Habitat for Humanity official Catherine Barnes said Wednesday that Mayweather had not started to log the hours. Saragosa said Wednesday she was persuaded to jail Mayweather following his admission that he hit Harris and twisted her arm, and that two of their children, ages 9 and 10, witnessed the attack. Mayweather threatened to kill or make Harris "disappear," Saragosa said, and their 10-year-old son ran from the house and jumped a back gate to fetch security. Mayweather had taken cellphones belonging to Harris and the two boys. "Things could have gotten more out of hand than they did," the judge said. Prosecutor Lisa Luzaich cited three previous domestic violence arrests for scuffles involving Harris, with whom Mayweather has three children, and three cases involving another woman with whom Mayweather has one child. Fines were of no consequence to Mayweather, Luzaich said. Mayweather goes by the nickname "Money," and was guaranteed $25 million for the Ortiz fight that won him the WBCs welterweight belt. Mayweather earned more than $20 million in a previous fight against "Sugar" Shane Mosley. Mayweather has been arrested several times since 2002 in battery and violence cases in Las Vegas and in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Mich. He was convicted in 2002 of misdemeanour battery stemming from a fight with two women at a Las Vegas nightclub. He received a suspended one-year jail sentence and was ordered to undergo impulse-control counselling. He was fined in Grand Rapids in February 2005 and ordered to perform community service after pleading no contest to misdemeanour assault and battery for a bar fight. He was acquitted by a Nevada jury in July 2005 after being accused of hitting and kicking Harris during an argument outside a Las Vegas nightclub. He was acquitted again in October of misdemeanour allegations that he threatened two homeowner association security guards during a parking ticket argument. Mayweather also faces a civil lawsuit in Las Vegas from two men who allege he orchestrated a shooting attack on them outside a skating rink in 2009. Police have never accused Mayweather of firing shots and he has never been criminally charged in the case. ' ' '

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