frank: a bad night for henry owens with the red sox and cleveland indians in the final series of the year for both teams. david ortiz, back in the lineup last night, continued his hot hitting streak with his 37th homer of the year in the fourth inning. but that wasn't enough. cleveland held on to the lead. sox losing this one 8-2. the sox have just two games left mound today. it's opening weekend at the topsfield fair, and what bigger way to kick it off than the annual new england giant pumpkin contest? antoinette: check this out. gary vincent from plainville, connecticut, taking home the top prize. his pumpkin tipping the scales at a whopping 1,992 and a half pounds! the pumpkin, which vincent nicknamed "hightower," came pretty close to breaking the 2,000-pound record set three years ago. all of the this year's pumpkins will be on display at the fair through october 12. just shy of eight pounds to go for that record, man. frank: pumpkin cookies, pumpkin pies, pumpkin lattes. putting everybody to work making pumpkin everything. antoinette: we'll see about that. a student aces his col

a bad night for henry owens with indians in the final series of the year for both teams. david ortiz, back in the lineup hitting streak with his 37th homer of the yearin the 4th inning. but that wasn't enough. cleveland held on to the lead. sox losing this one 8-2. the sox have just two games left in the season. craig breslow will start on the mound today. antoinette: on the ice now. the bruins scored their only goal of the game early giving them a quick 1-0 lead. the b's promised to be more physical and aggressive this one of the five fights on the night. things got so intense that players wound up yelling at each other from the penalty box. capitals won the game 2-1 in a shootout. opening night is next thursday at the garden against winnipeg. as for the celtics, they practiced yesterday in waltham before heading off for a nice getaway. they're jetting overseas to europe with stops in milan, italy, and madrid, spain, for two pre-season games. let's talk some football. eight teams will be hitting turf on thanksgiving to play football at fenway park. frank: they were all o

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henry owens on the mound, bases loaded for cleveland in the third inning, carlos santana clears them. 3-0. they go on to win 8 were 2. david ortiz hit a home run for boston. this is a brilliant diving catch, that's as good as it gets. look at that extension! that's amazing. blue jays won 8-4 over the rays. bruins before the regular season begins on thursday, they played at the capitals. first period, louie ericson scored the second of the pre-season and made it 1-0. alex ovechkin scored in the first and caps win 2-1. hey shall it's homecoming at unh this weekend. the wildcats play elon and that is sold out. >> a much improved football team, defensively they've improved, and fizz cattle that they didn't have last year, size and where they're playing. >> they look pretty good. definitely good on defense. they've got some athletes, you know, haven't been giving up too many points this year. >> college football. uhn is home at j30, dartmouth at penn at 3:30. eric fairweather first start as quarterback and plymouth state home with the owls at 1:00. if you want to watch football on channel