On Tuesday morning, Darnell McDonald and Josh Reddick were members of the minor league Pawtucket Red Sox, hoping for that call to the bigs that could kick-start their major league careers. By late Tuesday night, both outfielders not only were in uniform for the parent club, they were instrumental parts of a come-from-behind 7-6 victory [...]
Longballs propel Sox in a close win over Nats
Ignore the fact that Boston has outscored Washington in the first two games of this series 17-7, and has outhit the Nats 24-16, including a 9-5 edge in extra base hits; the fact of the matter is, both of the first two contests have been tight ballgames in the later innings. Tuesday night the Sox [...]
Sox squeak by Nats, 11-3
Don’t let the end result fool ya – this game can be filed under the proverbial “much closer than the final score indicated” category. The Red Sox scratched and clawed its way to a tougher-than-expected victory over the worst team in the major leagues Tuesday night, and if it weren’t for an inexcusable error by Washington’s All [...]
Assault & battery: Tek, Beckett beat twins
This past offseason, the Red Sox nearly let Jason Varitek walk away, due to his declining production, ascending age and contract demands. I shudder to think where they’d be this year without their Captain. Varitek hit two solo homers this afternoon in the soon-to-be-extinct Homerdome, the first one tying the game at one and the second a mammoth upper-deck job [...]
Messy Mets spoil Dice-K’s return to mound
When the time comes to look back at some of the classic games from the ’09 season, tonight’s interleague opener between the Sox and New York Mets will be WAY down on the list. And when player’s agents are compiling highlights for their client’s personal resume reels, no one will be asking the video editor to [...]
Back to bashing: Sox slam 5 HRs in 8-3 rout of Jays
As the ovation reached a speaker-rumbling crescendo and the big man climbed to the top step of the dugout to tip his cap to the adoring Fenway Faithful, it almost felt as if you were watching a Red Sox game of late-October 2004 vintage, not a meaningless mid-May 2009 tilt. But as soon as David Ortiz’s [...]
Seems like old times for Sox in Seattle
The Red Sox must have jumped in a time machine between Games 1 and 2 of their weekend series in Seattle, because last night’s 5-3 win felt like it was ripped right from the year 2007. Need proof? Josh Beckett provided a much-needed and long overdue quality start; the Sox jumped out to another early lead, and [...]
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 [...]
