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February 21, 2008
TOKYO (AP) - Tickets for baseball's season-opening series between the Boston Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics in Japan have sold out.
Tickets for the March 25-26 games at the 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome went on sale Feb. 9 and sold out in less than two weeks.
Organizers said Thursday some tickets remain for the preseason games the Red Sox and Athletics will play against the Yomiuri Giants and the Hanshin Tigers on March 22-23.
Boston and Oakland will be the third set of teams to open the regular season at the Tokyo Dome, following the New York Mets and Chicago Cubs (2000), and the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay (2004). A scheduled 2003 series between Oakland and Seattle at the Tokyo Dome was canceled because of the threat of war in Iraq.
Boston left-hander Hideki Okajima could be the lone Japanese pitcher for the World Series champions in the two-game series, as Daisuke Matsuzaka may miss the series because his wife is expecting to give birth around that time.
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