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BOSTON -- CC Sabathia is just 12-13 with a 4.54 ERA against the Boston Red Sox in his career. But you wouldnt know it from the stats posted by the current Boston players as the left-hander heads into Sunday nights start for the New York Yankees at Fenway Park.Sabathia will try to help his team avoid a sweep of the four-game series that has essentially ended its postseason hopes.The current Red Sox are hitting a combined .232 with five homers and 20 RBI against Sabathia, who brings a 5-5 record and 5.15 Fenway ERA into the rain-threatened game.Hanley Ramirez comes in 0-for-10 against Sabathia, and David Ortiz is at .219 with two homers in 73 at-bats, Aaron Hill is 4-for-31, Xander Bogaerts is 2-for-15 and Jackie Bradley Jr. is 3-for-14 with seven strikeouts.Obviously, with CC on the mound, well see some different guys on the field just based on the left-right situation, Red Sox manager John Farrell said before Saturdays game, noting Ortiz, who is 16-for-73 against Sabathia, might get the night off.Sabathia, who faces fellow left-hander Drew Pomeranz in the final Fenway game of the season between the rivals, has been pitching well, with four quality starts in his last five outings. He has faced the Red Sox just once this season, yielding nine hits and five runs (four earned) in a July 16 loss at Yankee Stadium.The Yankees came to Boston in the middle of the American League wild-card picture and four games out of first place in the AL East. They were set to make it even closer when they blew the opener in a Red Sox ninth-inning rally. Boston also won Friday and then rallied to win Saturday.We know were making it tough on ourselves and dont expect this group to give up until were eliminated, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. So I dont think anybody here thinks were completely out of it now. But we know its going to be tough, so we know were going to have to win almost every game just to try to get back in this thing.Pomeranz, acquired by the Red Sox from the San Diego Padres in exchange for pitching prospect Anderson Espinoza in what has become a controversial deal (Padres general manager A.J. Prella suspended for 30 days for withholding medical information), is 2-5 with a 4.60 ERA in 11 starts with the Red Sox and 10-12 with a 3.25 ERA overall.He has pitched twice against the Yankees this season, allowing two runs in 12 1/3 innings but posting a 0-0 record.Current Yankee hitters are batting a combined .211 with two homers against Pomeranz. Starlin Castro is 0-for-7, Mark Teixeira 1-for-9 with four strikeouts and Chase Headley 2-for-12 with five Ks. Jacoby Ellsbury is 3-for-7 and Brett Gardner 3-for-9 with a home run. Didi Gregorius has the other home run.Pomeranz, who has allowed two or fewer runs in six of his last eight starts, said he had no knowledge of what his former team was up to with his medical records.Ive been asked about this before, he told WEEI.com on Friday. I dont really know anything about that. That parts above my head. Im just the guy who got traded. I dont know any of this stuff thats going on, any of the back and forth. 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Nike Free Outlet Store .com) - The Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks both take aim at their first wins of the season on Saturday, as the Canucks open their home slate at Rogers Arena. GREEN BAY, Wis. -- No matter what the plan is for Julius Peppers this season, the expectations arent changing for the oldest player on the Green Bay Packers roster.Its not like were going to put him out to pasture or sit him over on the bench a whole lot, general manager Ted Thompson said Wednesday.Peppers is beginning his 15th NFL season; whether this will be the final one for the 36-year-old defensive stalwart isnt known.Of more immediate attention, as the Packers prepare to play their first preseason game Friday night against the Cleveland Browns, is just what role Peppers will have when the season starts in a month.Peppers is listed as a starter on the depth chart this week. But another former first-round draft pick, Nick Perry, not Peppers, has been taking most of the reps at the outside linebacker spot opposite Clay Matthews in Green Bays base defense early in training camp.Defensive coordinator Dom Capers said reining in Peppers has been by design.I think we know what Julius is capable of, so youll probably see limited reps of Julius with where he is, Capers said. Youve seen that through training camp thus far, so its enabled Nick to get a lot of reps. We have a number of guys there that we need to see and take a good look at.While Perry is relishing the extra work as he looks to put an injury-marred first four pro seasons behind him, Peppers isnt saying much about the apparent role reversal. In fact, he hasnt spoken to reporters in the locker room since the first couple of days of camp, which opened July 26.Peppers declined to talk as he walked out of the locker room after practice Wednesday.As long as he can stay healthy, which hes been since the teams offseason program in the spring for the first time in his career, Perry is expected to have a bigger role in Green Bays defense this season.Hes a physical guy, very good player against the run, and he can use that physicality and size, and hes got a couple pass-rush moves that hes very good at, Capers said.Perry has yet to play aa full season, but the Packers saw enough production at the end of last season to re-sign him to a one-year contract.ddddddddddddhis is home for me, said Perry, who led Green Bay with 3 + sacks in its two playoff games. For those guys to believe in me and know that Ive got more to give, it just puts everything in perspective on whats to come. Theres unfinished business here, and were just trying to get to that.As for Peppers, the Packers are hopeful he will remain as productive as ever, even if his role is diminished.Hes a marvelous player and a very gifted, athletic specimen, the likes of which I dont know that Ive ever seen, Thompson said.Peppers had a team-high 10 + sacks last season, moving him to No. 9 on the NFLs all-time sacks list with 136. He also was selected to the Pro Bowl for the ninth time.Thompson wouldnt say whether the team will try to maximize Peppers production in the final year of a three-year, $26 million contract by reducing his workload.I think certainly you can make that argument that that would be a logical conclusion, Thompson said. I dont know. I think it just kind of depends. I think you pick your spots and you use players that are extraordinary, which Julius is, in a certain way.Game notes Matthews (ankle) and WR Randall Cobb (calf) were held out of the Packers final open practice before Fridays game. Among those still sidelined were QB Brett Hundley (ankle), LB Jake Ryan (hamstring) and C JC Tretter (illness). . Long snapper Jesse Schmitt watched practice with a cast on his broken right hand. Schmitt suffered the injury while making a block on his first snap in a punt drill in his first practice with the team Tuesday night. The Packers signed Schmitt, an undrafted rookie from Purdue, to compete with incumbent Rick Lovato. Schmitt didnt know if surgery would be needed.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '