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| ***John Henry On Manny Ramirez*** |
| 2008-07-17 04:28:00 |
John Henry responded to the statements Manny Ramirez made to the Boston Herald's Rob Bradford during the All Star break, which are available for you to read (in full) in the post directly below this one. Here is part of what he said via email...“I find remarks that we have been anything other than completely straightforward to be personally offensive,” Henry wrote. “Manny has been a crucial part of two world championships. I do not believe we would have won either without him. He has never played a more important role than he has thus far this year."Pretty strong stuff, huh? But so were the words of Manny. I think Manny is making a HUGE mistake and that he should keep his mouth closed and just concentrate on helping his team win it all once again. We all know we never could have done...
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| AL Wins The 2008 All Star Game...**Manny Ramirez On His Future Career Possibilities With Or Without The Boston Red Sox** |
| 2008-07-16 04:20:00 |
The most important statistic of the 2008 Baseball All Star-Game">Star Game was its length...four hours and fifty minutes, lasting well into the early morning. 453 pitches. Wow. The American League defeated the National League by a score of 4-3, their eleventh win of the last twelve All Star fests. There was a memorable tie within that span. Jonathon Papelbon pitched the eighth inning and gave up a very unearned run, but the game continued on and on and on and.....I could keep going, but you get the point. JD Drew, on the strength of his seventh inning two run tater, was named the MVP of the game, and deservedly so. Manny, Youk and Peds were hitless. OK, enough about that. Here's something more important for those of us who love the...
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| **The 2008 All Star Game** |
| 2008-07-15 04:10:00 |
The managers have announced the starting lineups and their starting pitchers, the players are ready and Yankee Stadium, the House That Ruth Built, will be ready to showcase all in a gala opening ceremony. Fox and FoxHD will start the television coverage with a 7pm EDT pregame show featuring all the festivity of these past two days, especially today's star-studded 6th Avenue parade. It should be great. Game coverage on Fox and FoxHD will be at 8pm. Expect a pre-game festival more choreographed than the 1999 Fenway Park All Star game, which was highlighted by Ted Williams' last appearance in front of the baseball world. First, here are your starting pitchers. For the visiting (and losing, I hope) National League, it will be...
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| At The All Star Break...Red Sox 2 Orioles 1 |
| 2008-07-14 07:03:00 |
Sunday afternoon's 2-1 Boston win over the Baltimore Orioles might have been the longest 2-1 game I've ever seen. At least it seemed that way. The ninth inning alone seemed to take up the whole weekend! But the Sox won and took over first place by themselves, 1/2 game over the slumping Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays, who have lost their last seven. It's the fourth straight year Boston has been in first at the break, which I didn't realize until today. Great job guys!Daisuke Matsuzaka was his normal self, having trouble with his control. He went six innings, giving up zero runs and only four hits. He walked five batters and hit one, however, which led to a huge six inning pitch count. Through only four innings he had thrown 76 pitches and ended up with 115 total. For 1/2 a dozen innings, that's WAY...
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| ***FINAL SCORE*** Red Sox 2 Orioles 1...FIRST PLACE AGAIN |
| 2008-07-13 15:23:00 |
It's now going to the bottom of the eighth inning at Fenway in the last game before the break. Okie and Little Manny got though the top of the seventh after Daisuke threw too many pitches through six, but gave up zero runs. Little Manny got his four outs, so now it's going into the bottom of the 8th...still 2-0 with Paps coming in for the ninth. Three outs to go for the Birdies...tweet tweet?TOP OF THE NINTH...Paps on the mound...Millar at the plate...97 MPH strike one...98 MPH foul ball...strike two...Cora makes a catch..ONE OUT...Roberts up..strike one...1-1...1-2...foul on a 98mph fastball...BASE HIT...one on, one out.RAYS LOSE TO CLEVELAND...first place is ours for the taking...BASE HIT by Adam Jones....wow.The count is 0-2...2-2...STRIKE THREE!! 98 MPH up and away fastball...Huff up....
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| Wakefield Is On A Roll...Big Papi Is Tentatively Scheduled To Return On July 25...Boston 12 Baltimore 1 |
| 2008-07-13 04:00:00 |
Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox is on a roll...there's no denying it. Saturday afternoon at Fenway Park, he was nearly unhittable for seven innings, only giving up a third inning solo home run while allowing just two hits and one earned run. He walked one. It was vintage Wakefield at his baffling and beautiful best. Boston won the game easily by a score of 12-1. Here's what his manager had to say, as well as the man himself and ex-teammate Kevin Millar...“I think that’s actually the best I’ve seen him pitch,” said Francona, who had to leave Wakefield off the World Series roster last fall because of lingering back and shoulder problems. “He worked hard to stay where he is. When last year ended, and he wasn...
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| BOBBY MURCER...1946-2008...GONE TOO SOON...REST IN PEACE, Bobby... |
| 2008-07-12 15:57:00 |
Dammit...he passed today. Brain cancer...far too early. I have no words, except these. He was a great guy. Sure, he lived and breathed NY Yankees, but so what? He will be missed by all of us who love baseball. And we ALL do. CLICK ON THE TITLE OF THIS POST...now......
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| Claymation...Orioles 7 Red Sox 3 |
| 2008-07-12 04:33:00 |
The first inning of Friday's Boston Red Sox 7-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles was an excercise in frustration, especially the first seemingly neverending inning. Clay Buchholz was making his first start since his two month tuneup in Pawtucket, and his nervousness really showed. Here's what he had to say after the game... “I haven’t been that nervous in a long time,” Buchholz said. “Maybe I was trying a little bit too hard … being out there for the first time in a while, trying to prove a point, trying to let everybody know this is where I want to be and this is where I want to be for a long time. I think it was just so new to me last year, I didn’t know what to expect,” he said. “Now I know what this team does: This team is here to win and...
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| A HUGE Start For Clay Buchholz Today. |
| 2008-07-11 04:16:00 |
Tonight at Fenway Park will be one of those nights when the excitement of the fans throughout Red Sox Nation will be a physical presence, an entity unto itself. Clay Buchholz will be making his first big league start since his two month "sabbatical" at AAA Pawtucket. He was sent down so the coaches could work with him to alter his arm/hand position, moving them farther away from his head when he's going to throw his fastball. This, they hoped, would allow him to rediscover the movement on that pitch, a pivitol one when combined with his killer curve. And ya know what? It seems to have worked. He had a 4-2 record with an ERA of 2.47 in nine starts. In four consecutive starts between June 14-30, he was 4-0 with an unbelievable ERA of (get this!) 0.47. His last...
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| 23 Skidoo And A Fenway Series Sweep Over Minnesota...Red Sox 18 Twins 5 |
| 2008-07-10 04:39:00 |
The Red Sox offense exploded Wednesday afternoon at Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts, the hub of the universe. With the score relatively close at 7-5 Boston, the Red Sox overwhelmed the visiting team in the seventh and eighth innings, adding eleven runs to their already impressive total. The pivotal play was a Jason Varitek shallow fly ball to center with runners at second and third. The umpire ruled that Denard Span caught the ball, and when the ump signaled "catch," Denard threw to the infield in a triple play try, an apparently successful one. And that triple play would have stood, with Sean Casey and Mike Lowell running, but Tito Francona came out and asked for the entire officiating crew to consult with each other. As the numerous replays clearly s...
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| A MANNY Moment...Red Sox 6 Twins 5 |
| 2008-07-09 04:30:00 |
It looked bleak for the hometown Boston Red Sox as the game headed into the bottom of the eighth inning. The Minnesota Twins were up by a score of 5-2 when a groundout by JD Drew scored Jacoby Ellsbury. That made it 5-3 with Sir Manny coming to the plate. He hit a home run into the Monster seats on the first pitch, a two run blast, and rounded the bases with a HUGE smile on his face. Moments later, a Brendan Moss base hit scored Kevin Youkilis, who was on base throughout the game with three hits. 6-5 Good Guys, and it was Jonathon Papelbon time. But the top of the ninth was a mini-nailbiter. Nick Punto hit a shallow fly ball with one out, a ball that Coco Crisp tried to catch, shoestring s...
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| Daisuke Finds His Zone...Red Sox 1 Twins 0 |
| 2008-07-08 04:19:00 |
Just as the title said, Daisuke Matsuzaka, who has been off his game in a big way since he went down with an injury a few weeks ago, regained his pitching wits Monday night at friendly Fenway Park in beautiful downtown Boston. The Red Sox won the game against the red-hot Twins by a tintillating score of 1-0, courtesy of a Manny Ramirez smash to rightfield. Dustin Pedroia had doubled and scampered home easily. That was the eighth inning, and Daisuke Matsuzaka came on in the bottom half of the inning and tried to protect that slim lead. Alas, he could not. After a bunt single and a single to right, he was gone and his countryman Hideki Okajima was summoned from the 'pen. In all, 71 of Daisuke's 109 pitches were strikes, and ...
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| A Series Split..The Hard Way...Yankees 5 Red Sox 4 |
| 2008-07-07 04:27:00 |
First of all, congratulations to the seven Boston Red Sox players who are going to the All Star Game...great job, guys. But last night, the New York Yankees salvaged a series split with Boston, winning the 10 inning game 5-4. Brett Gardner, who is now the starting leftfielder for New York until Johnny Damon returns, singled up the middle against Jonathon Papelbon to plate the winning run, and he went down and hit a darn good "put-away" splitter to do it. With the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays' seventh straight victory, Boston, who was one up on the Rays after their last home game, are now five games behind them. And that's tough.Tim Wakefield again did not pitch poorly, going 6 2/3 innings and giving up 3 runs on 4 hits with on...
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| Moose And Mo And A 9th Inning Foiled Boston Comeback...Yankees 2 Red Sox 1 |
| 2008-07-06 03:55:00 |
The Boston Red Sox ALMOST completed a ninth inning comeback against Mariano Rivera. They sure had their chances. They had scored one run to make the score 2-1 and had the bases loaded with no (zero, none, nada) outs. The bases were full. Here's what transpired. The score was 2-0 Yankees and JD Drew led off this final inning with a single, his second hit of the game. Manny followed and was hit by a pitch, the sixth but not the last time a batter was plunked in this late afternoon contest. Mike Lowell singled to right, driving in the first Sox run. 2-1 Bad Guys. Still no outs. Kevin Youkilis was then hit by a pitch. That would be number seven and the las...
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| Red Sox Sock Yankees Again...Boston 6 Yankees 4 |
| 2008-07-05 04:20:00 |
Friday afternoon, July 4th of 2008 was quite the day for Red Sox players and fans alike in New York City as Boston soundly defeated the downtrodden home team who go by the name "Yankees" by a score of 6-4. Darrell Rasner was absolutely no match for Sox ace Josh Beckett, and it showed. Josh was able to go six complete innings, throwing slightly more than 100 pitches, as he overcame a shaky first frame and got tougher and tougher as the game rolled by. The bullpen took over in the 7th, and Hideki Okajima strode to the mound, Phiton titanium necklace firmly in place. Once again it was not a good outing for him. He DID record two outs, but also walked two and surrendered a base hit. So Manny...
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| Boston Red Sox 6 NY Yankees 4 |
| 2008-07-04 13:43:00 |
Josh Beckett gutted out a tough three run first inning and held firm, allowing the bullpen to pitch the last three innings. A Mikey Lowell 3 run home run was the decisive clout. SOX WIN AGAIN! A full wrap in the morning. Happy Independence Day!...
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| Boston Red Sox 7 NY Yankees 0...HAPPY 4th Of July To All! |
| 2008-07-04 04:07:00 |
The Boston Red Sox soundly defeated the reeling New York Yankees Thursday night at the Stadium by a score of 7-0. Jon Lester was superb with every aspect of his pitching and spun his second complete game, his first since his no hitter. Manager Terry "Tito" Francona had this to say..."He used his two-seamer, his cutter, his four-seamer, got a lot of first-pitch strikes, got some double plays," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. "He really looked like a 6-foot-5 major league left-hander."And here is his wonderful pitching line... IP H R ER BB K HR Season ERA J. Lester (W, 7-3) 9.0 5 0 0 2 8 0 3.21 JD Drew, Yankee "fan favorite" Kevin Youkilis and Coco Crisp, back...
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| SWEPT AWAY, FAR FAR AWAY...Tampa Bay Rays 7 Boston Red Sox 6 |
| 2008-07-03 04:09:00 |
The Boston Red Sox seemed to be in good shape after six innings Wednesday night in Tampa Bay. They were ahead by a score of 4-1 and needed just five or six outs to get to "Papelbon time." But two things, two people, actually, stood between them and a salvaging victory. They were Manny Delcarmen and Craig Hansen. They imploded completely, with neither recording a single out. Six runs later, the score was 7-4 and the game was out of reach. Boston added single runs in the eighth and ninth, but it was too little, too late. What had seemed to be a certain victory ended up to be a series sweep win for the first place Rays.Daisuke Matsuzaka started for the Sox and ...
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| Punchless Red Sox Beaten Again...Tampa Bay Rays 3 Boston Red Sox 1 |
| 2008-07-02 04:38:00 |
For the seventh straight start, Timmy Wakefield pitched at least seven innings and allowed fewer than three earned runs. Yet the Boston Red Sox were again without the timely hits and lost to the first place Tampa Bay Rays by a score of 3-1. His ERA over that span is a nifty 1.98, but because of a lack of run support, his record is 2-3. Unfathomable. Two wild pitches were a part of his undoing, as well as a walk and an Alex Cora error. But when a team scores only one run on six hits, which was the same number of hits the Rays banged out, there is NO room for error. Here's what Tim had to say after absorbing his sixth loss...“I’m just in a really bad spot,...
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| The Latest Round Goes To The Rays...Tampa Bay 5 Boston 4 |
| 2008-07-01 04:34:00 |
Justin Masterson's first pitch of the game was slammed over the fence by B.J. Upton, and that set the tone of the Tampa Bay Rays' Monday night victory over the visiting Boston Red Sox. Their lead in the division bulged to 1 1/2 games, with two more tilts coming up in this series. Masterson had trouble finding the strike zone, BIG TROUBLE. 57 of his 105 pitches (in only six innings) were strikes, and he threw only 13 out of 28 first pitch strikes. It was not the kind of outing the Sox, losers of three straight, wanted to see. Chris Smith took over in the seventh and also could not throw strikes. He recorded an out while walking the bases full, which led to the decisive run scoring in that inni...
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| Another Manny Ramirez Moment? What Would We Do Without Him? Answer? That Will Never Happen...PERIOD! |
| 2008-06-30 06:12:00 |
Peter here yet again on Monday (uhh) morning. This is a story that I had not heard, from Houston, of all places. This is from Sean McAdam of the Providence Journal. Thank you Sean. Here it is...********HOUSTON -- "Maybe it's something in the water in Houston. Days after Houston Astros pitcher Shawn Chacon tackled general manger Ed Wade in the home clubhouse at Minute Maid Park, the visitors clubhouse was the scene of another player-club employee altercation Saturday afternoon.Manny Ramirez shoved Red Sox traveling secretary Jack McCormick to the ground in an argument over Ramirez' ticket allotment. Several onlookers moved quickly to separate the two.Ramirez had asked McCormick for 16 tickets for Saturday night's Red Sox-Astros game, an unusually high number for day-of-game. In addition to ...
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| Eighth Inning Doom, Mayhem And Disaster...Astros 3 Red Sox 2 |
| 2008-06-30 04:45:00 |
For the first time since May 14th, Boston manager Terry Francona summoned his lefthander Hideki Okajima with a man or men on base. A wild pitch allowed that runner, Miguel Tejada, to scamper to second base. A pinch hitter strode to the plate, none other than old friend Mark Loretta, who promptly laced a flat slider (I think) into the outfield for a base hit, scoring Tejada. That proved to be the winning run as the Houston Astros defeated the Boston Red Sox by a score of 3-2.Josh Beckett again pitched well enough to win, going seven innings and allowing only two runs on eight hits, striking out four and walking one. David Aardsma, who allowed the potential winning run to reach first, was lifted after recording one out and it was Okie time. You know the res...
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| An Ugly And Avoidable Astros' Comeback Foils The Red Sox...Houston 11 Boston 10 |
| 2008-06-29 04:36:00 |
It's Sunday morning, a "morning after" time for Red Sox Nation and Red Sox International. I know you can't win 'em all, but with leads of 4-0 and 9-6, the Boston Red Sox managed to lose Saturday night's game in Houston by a score of 11-10. I have to be honest with you...I did not see a minute of the game, so I am ill equipped to write about it. That doesn't happen often, as you know. But sometimes, the less said, the better. So I'll do exactly that. You can consider it a bad night for Jon Lester, who has been tremendous this year, and Manny Delcarmen, who allowed the winning runs to score late in the game. We pin our hopes on Josh Beckett today to end the National League set of games on ...
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| Daisuke Progress...Red Sox 6 Astros 1 |
| 2008-06-28 04:11:00 |
Daisuke Matsuzaka's second start since going out with shoulder fatigue can be described with this one word...PROGRESS. He was able to go five scoreless innings and threw only 87 pitches. Why didn't he go longer? It's a matter of strength. Here's what he and his manager had to say after the third straight Red Sox victory..."I'm not even counting my last start," Matsuzaka said through an interpreter. "But I did feel like I did come back with this start. I just hope gradually I can make back all the trouble that I caused. I don't know if I'd say happy, but there was a minimum standard I wanted to reach out there today," he said. "I feel that, with my next start and going forward, it will just get better and better.""The ball came out of his hand crisp," Fran...
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| The Boston Red Sox At The Halfway Point |
| 2008-06-27 04:12:00 |
The Boston Red Sox are about to begin a 10 game road trip in three cities. They start tonight (Friday) in Houston for three weekend games, go to Tampa Bay for three, which should be very interesting, and end up in the city that never sleeps to play the Yankees for four. The Yankee rotation is tattered and torn, bent, folded and stapled, so I hope the Sox can take advantage of that. But one game at a time, and tonight, all eyes will be on Daisuke Matsuzaka, who will be making his second start after his injury timeout. I'm sure you remember the disaster that was his last start, and I really hope he can put together six or seven good innings. Should he do so, the bullpen is rested and ready to take over for the final three. ...
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| Cash Will Carry...Red Sox 5 D'backs 0 |
| 2008-06-26 04:22:00 |
In the oldest pitching matchup ever at Fenway Park, Tim Wakefield and three relievers bested Randy Johnson and blanked the Arizona Diamondbacks, limiting them to just 3 hits. Timmy went seven strong, allowing two of those hits, Little Manny Delcarmen threw a scoreless eighth, extending his scoreless streak to 11 straight appearances, and Hansen was called on to pitch the ninth. He couldn't do it, leaving with the bases loaded and two down. Five Papelbon pitches later, the game was over and the victory was secured. The biggest hit in the game was a three run eighth inning tater from catcher Kevin Cash that went into the parking lot beyond the Monster Seats. He said this after the game... "It was a big hit, but it was a bigger hit because they loaded the bases...
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| DIRTY WATER: A RED SOX MYSTERY...Penned by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith and Jere Smith...A Preview And The Pre-Order Link |
| 2008-06-25 11:35:00 |
Hello. It's Peter on this wonderfully beautiful early Wednesday afternoon. My blog friend Jere (see my link list--Red Sox Fan In Pinstripe Territory. It's the second one down, and the best...I like mine too, though!) and his Mom have co-written a new book. It's a RED SOX mystery, but that's all I can tell you until I read it. I included the link for pre-orders from Amazon dot com. Check out Jere's blog! Please click on the title of this post for that important link, and thanks. And thank you, Jere and Mary-Ann....
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| 19th Nervous Breakdown...Red Sox 5 D'backs 4 |
| 2008-06-25 04:30:00 |
For the nineteenth time this season, the Boston Red Sox rallied in the late innings for a comeback victory. This time it was the eighth inning when the Sox bats did their magic, with a rocket double by the clutch Mike Lowell tying the score and a single by the captain, Jason Varitek, that brought in what would be the eventual winning run. Jason, who had been mired in a 1 for 29 slump, said this after the game..."In the middle of it (the slump), I hit some balls hard and got on some 'Web Gems' and stuff," kidded Varitek. "I don't really know what triggers a good stretch. Like two days ago, I lined out twice on two different types of pitches. I struck out but I had a really good at-bat. "I haven't connected the way I would have liked so we're working on cha...
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| Great Arizona Pitching Dooms Boston...D'backs 2 Red Sox 1...More About Carlin |
| 2008-06-24 04:27:00 |
What can you say about last night's game except this - Dan Haren was unbeatable. The Red Sox only managed two hits with no runs in the seven innings he pitched, and scored their only run off Pena, who pitched the eighth. Josh Beckett, who knew he had to go eight innings to give the overworked Boston bullpen a breather, did exactly that, and he pitched great, too. He would have won most games with a pitching line like last night's. But a bobble by Moss, who was playing first base because Kevin Youkilis was hit below his right eye on a one-hop throw from Mike Lowell, proved costly, allowing one of the two D'back runs to score. Youk was taken out immediately because the eye started to swel...
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| *** GEORGE CARLIN 1937-2008 *** "Life Is Not Measured By The Number Of Breaths We Take, But By The Moments That Take Our Breath Away." |
| 2008-06-23 04:51:00 |
Peter here once again on this sad Monday morning, June 23, 2008, a day that our nation and our world lost a comedian and a person who was a national treasure. His name was George Carlin, and I've been a fan of his ever since the first time I saw him on the Johnny Carson Show AND Saturday Night Live. Believe it or not, he was the FIRST EVER host of that groundbreaking show. I have that night in full on DVD, and sometime today, when I have time, I'm going to watch it. Quite simply and in his own way, he was a genius, with his comic delivery and his bevy of facts. I've seen him three times in concert and countless times on his HBO specials, and he never failed to provide outloud spit-spewing (eeww) laughs. And I loved him for it. This is from the AP, from lat...
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| YOOUUK!! Red Sox 5 Cardinals 3 |
| 2008-06-23 04:02:00 |
This would have been a tough loss and a lousy end to a nice Sunday afternoon, but Kevin Youkilis wanted to go home. So did I, and I WAS home! After all, the players and the crowd had been emotionally involved in a game that lasted more than five hours, including slightly less than an hour rain delay. Youk came up with Mike Lowell on first base and promptly launched one deep into the Monster Seats. That made a winner of Javy Lopez and salvaged one game of the three game set. Here's what the hero of the day had to say after his jubilent tour of the bases..."Sick of playing that game," Youkilis said, after the 5-3 win over the Cardinals. "Glad we got done with it. It was getting a little tiring out there, little humid today with the rain. I just wanted to ...
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| A Daisuke Disaster...St. Louis 9 Boston 3 |
| 2008-06-22 04:04:00 |
What can I say about Saturday afternoon at Fenway Park? Maybe I'd say I'm glad I wasn't there. Nothing else comes to mind. Daisuke Matsuzaka was making his triumphant return to the rotation, and it was a complete bust, all one inning and three batters of it. In that one inning plus he allowed seven earned runs and six hits while walking three. The final score was 9-3 Cardinals, and that was because of good bullpen work (except for the second inning grand slam). Here is what his manager and the man himself said after the fiasco...“When he came out, there were not complaints about soreness, fatigue, anything, so that’s a good sign,” Boston manager Terry Francona said. “I’m hopeful we’ll just chalk it up to a bad outing.”“I just hope that I ca...
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| The Cardinals Eke One Out On Celtics Night At Fenway...St. Louis 5 Boston 4 |
| 2008-06-21 04:23:00 |
It was a festive Friday night at Fenway Park in Boston, and a sea of green Celtics tee shirts and jerseys greeted the Celtics and Red Sox players and coaches before the game in a great ceremony. But after a rain delay of an hour plus, it was time to play baseball. Tim Wakefield pitched well enough to keep his team in the game, allowing 7 hits and four runs, three of them earned (a Lugo error) in 7 innings. Hideki Okajima, continuing his up and down season, gave up three hits and the game-winning run in the eighth before Aardsma, who becomes MORE VALUABLE TO THE CLUB WITH EVERY SINGLE APPEARANCE, struck out the side in the top of the ninth. But Boston had squandered what chances they had and ended up on the short end of th...
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| SCHILLING...THE END? |
| 2008-06-20 11:30:00 |
This is from the Boston Globe, just a few minutes ago, and I'll be back with something to say..."Curt Schilling revealed this morning that he will have season-ending surgery on his right shoulder on Monday, saying there was a "pretty decent chance that I've thrown my last pitch forever."The 41-year-old Red Sox righthander made the disclosure during his weekly interview on sports radio WEEI's Dennis and Callahan show, sounding very much like a player whose career could be over."I don't want it to end this way, but if this is the way it has to end, I'm OK with that," Schilling said. "If it's over and my last pitch was in the 2007 World Series, I'm OK with that. I just can't stress enough where I am mentally with this. I have not a regret in the world. ... None of this makes me bitter or angr...
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| The Boston Red Sox To Honor The World Champion Boston Celtics |
| 2008-06-20 04:40:00 |
By now on this Friday morning, you all know that the Boston Celtics won the NBA championship by humiliating the LA Lakers. Since the turn of the century, Boston has six world titles among the four major sports (baseball, football, hockey and basketball). No other city can make the same claim, and we here in New England and all of Red Sox Nation and Red Sox International should be proud. I know I sure am. It's only the fourth time an NBA team won it all in the same city as the previous World Series champions. That's something very special. And tonight, before the game with the St. Louis Cardinals, the Sox will honor the ...
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| Another JD Drew-Powered Victory...Red Sox 7 Phillies 4 |
| 2008-06-19 04:26:00 |
JD Drew's June numbers (so far) are AL Player of the Month caliber. He's batting .441 with nine home runs and 21 RBI in 17 games. That's nothing short of awesome. And his club, OUR club, took the three game series with the Phillies with a getaway day 7-4 win. Justin Masterson went the first five frames but was not as effective, control-wise, than in his earlier starts. Just 53 of his 92 pitches were strikes, but he held the potent Philadelphia lineup to 4 hits and 2 runs. Javie Lopez pitched a quick and clean sixth before the roof came close to crashing down. Why? Two words...Craig Hansen. He failed to record an out and gave up two runs and two hits. Add a walk to those woeful numbers and you can begin to imagine the mess that Manny Delcarmen inherited. After walking the first hitter he fa...
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| Jon Lester Leads The Red Sox To Victory...Boston 3 Philadelphia 0 |
| 2008-06-18 04:52:00 |
Jon Lester was unbelievable in Philadelphia last night, going seven dominating innings, allowing zero runs and giving up only six hits while striking out five, including Monday night's hitting hero Ryan Howard four times. Wow!! Lester has not allowed more than three earned runs in 10 straight starts. He has made us literally forget about Johan Santana. Hideki Okajima pitched a clean eighth and Jonathon Papelbon struck out the side in a 14 pitch ninth to make it official. It was his 20th save. Lester had this to say after the game..."I tried to keep them off-balance as best I could," Lester said. "It's a good fastball-hitting team with all that pop. I just tried to mix the ball up and down, in and out and I was fortunate to do that. Our main objective...
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| Introducing the 2008 NBA WORLD CHAMPIONS...THE BOSTON CELTICS! |
| 2008-06-18 04:35:00 |
They did it. They did it last night and they did it IN Boston. The Boston Celtics are the 2008 NBA World Champions. They literally destroyed the Los Angeles Lakers by a score of 131-92, the largest winning margin in a deciding playoff game in NBA history. And the city went nuts. Congratulations go out to the players and coaches, as well as head coach Doc Rivers. What a one year turnaround! When you click on the title of this post, you'll be linked to a tremendous article penned by the Hartford Courant's Jeff Jacobs. Quite simply, his words brought shivers of joy to me on this wonderful morning. So click away...you'll be so glad you did. WAY TO GO GREEN, or as Kevin Garnett screamed aft...
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| Philly Beats Colon, Red Sox...DVD Winners Update...Philadephia 8 Boston 2 |
| 2008-06-17 08:37:00 |
Things didn't work out that well Monday night in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, as the home team beat the world champs 8-2. Home runs by Dustin Pedroia and JD Drew were how the two Sox runs scored, and boy, is JD swinging the bat well! Hey Mr. Drew, keep it up, maybe through the end of October. Please?Things didn't go so well for Sox starter Bartolo Colon, who had his first really bad start of this season. But Philly can hit the heck out of the ball, and when Colon tried to do the same exact thing, his helmet flew off and he hurt his back by flailing wildly at a pitch. I hope he will not miss a start and I cannot wait to be back at Fenway after the Thursday off day.To the two very special DVD winners, my apolog...
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| On To Philly With A Victory For The Sox...Back to Boston For The Celtics, With The Lakers In Tow...A US Open Noon Playoff...Boston 9 Cincinnati 0 |
| 2008-06-16 04:29:00 |
The Great American Ballpark is the home of the Cincinnati Reds. It's also a place, as the Boston Red Sox found out in a 9-0 defeat of those Reds, that's fairly easy to hit one out into the seats. Yesterday, without their two big sluggers, David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, the visitors from Boston smashed four home runs. Jacoby Ellsbury, who set the Red Sox rookie record for steals in a season with 33, Justin Pedroia, the still white-hot JD Drew and Coco Crisp all went deep, and it led to a great offensive display for the world champions. It was the first time since '97 that the first three hitters in the Boston lineup hit taters. Who were they? Nomar, John Valentin and Connecticut's own (Too Big) Mo Vaughn. Outfielder Coco Crisp had this to say after the shut...
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