Big Papi’s big doughnut highlights Sox heartbreaking 12 inning loss

How does a team lose a game when they get a quality start from the starting pitcher, a five-hit game from its ninth place hitter, a four-hit game from its second baseman, numerous outstanding defensive plays, and 4 2/3 shutout innings from its bullpen? Easy. When its superstar slugger goes 0-7 with 3 ks and 12 men left [...]

Sox starting pitching sucks again

In my previous post  I mentioned that the Red Sox have the second-worst ERA among starting pitchers in the major leagues. Tonight they proved why. Tim Wakefield, the one starter on the staff this year who appeared immune to the shitty ERA syndrome, fell victim to the curse tonight, as Anaheim tagged the ageless knuckleballer for [...]

Late night smack: Sox comeback vs. Halos

For a diehard member of Red Sox Nation, there’s nothing worse than staying up past 1:00 am EST to watch the boys, only to have them lose a game on the Left Coast. But when they win a game out west, especially in the manner in which they did last night, it almost makes hitting the sack [...]

Beckett benched for 6 games for Abreu headshot

Sox ace Josh Beckett has been suspended for six games and fined an undisclosed amount for his head-high fastball that nearly decapitated Anaheim’s Bobby Abreu and caused a benches-clearing brou-ha-ha in L.A. 5-4 win on Sunday afternoon. A “shocked” Beckett will appeal, and the consensus is the sentence will be reduced by a game or two, but I’m [...]

The baseball gods giveth…

Yesterday the Sox came back from an early 2-0 deficit, survived a couple of tough patches in the middle of the game, and then turned what looked like a 9th inning insurance run into the eventual game winner as the Angels made a furious last-minute comeback. As they say, payback’s a bitch, huh? Boston got a [...]

Bay earns the save as Paps nearly blows his

It wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t pretty, but Boston got a much-needed win Saturday afternoon in Anaheim as Jason Bay used his bat and glove to nearly single-handedly propel the Sox to victory. The anti-Manny blasted two home runs for the offense-deprived Bosox, a two run shot in the seventh that gave the Sox a 4-3 [...]

Last place? LAST PLACE?!

I got back into the blogging biz for this? After parting ways with my previous employer (can you really call it that if you didn’t get paid?) and prior to that abandoning my other blog, I hemmed and hawed over weather I wanted to blog about the Bosox this season. Ultimately I bowed to the pressure of a near riot within my [...]