I didn’t get to see last night’s thrilling 5-4 win over the A’s, in which David Ortiz hit a key three-run homer, Jonathan Papelbon nearly blew another save, and Tim Wakefield ultimately earned his AL-leading 11th victory; I was busy watching my son’s All Star Little League team wrap up its season with a demoralizing [...]
Beckett restores order, offense produces just enough to win
The term ‘ace’ is bandied about a bit too freely in the world of major league baseball these days. Twenty game winners earn the distinction, even if they’re one-year-wonders like (fell off a) Cliff Lee. Number one starters are saddled with the moniker, even if they happen to be schlubs like John Lannan or Jeremy Guthrie. But [...]
A’s blank Sox in Nomar’s return to Fenway
John Smoltz’s Fenway Park debut was overshadowed by the return of Nomar Garciaparra tonight, but it was an unheralded rookie starting pitcher for the Oakland A’s who trumped all the tributes and attention being given to those two accomplished veterans. Brett Anderson tossed a complete game shutout, dampening what was supposed to be a celebration of Smoltz first [...]
The Prodigal Son returns
Five years ago this month, the Red Sox traded Nomar Garciaparra, the homegrown hitting machine, face of the franchise and one of the most popular and productive players in team history, to the Chicago Cubs in a three-team deal that netted Boston defensive whizzes Orlando Cabrera and Doug ‘The Ball Stealer’ Mientkiewicz. And it wouldn’t [...]
No no-no, but Wake rescues skidding Sox
He’s 42-years-old, looks like the guy who works at the neighbor-hood Publix, has been with the club for an eternity (15 years), and he couldn’t break a pane of glass with his fastball. Yet Tim Wakefield is, was and, from the looks of how he threw today, probably always will be one of the most valuable players [...]
This one hurts.
Wow. It seems like every day the Sox are putting a new twist on the famous line by the great British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning – How can I lose thee, let me count the ways? Just when you think these games can’t get any worse, they come up with something like last night’s/this morning’s [...]
Don’t panic yet…okay NOW panic!!!
We’re one week into the 2009 baseball season, and at 2-5 our beloved Bosox are the proud owners of the second-worst record in the American League. Thank god for the city of Cleveland. After last night’s disheartening, dispiriting and disgusting 8-2 loss at the hands of that MLB farm team known as the As, in which [...]
