Ever since Tampa Bay eviscerated the Sox in that four game beatdown a week ago, Boston has run off a tidy 5-2 winning streak that has them a mere 5 1/2 games behind the Devil Rays (yes, I am calling them by their birth names – they’ve earned it). So tell me, why does this little run have all the feel [...]
Sox Drawer: Dice-K, Smoltz and the dregs of interleague play
While the Red Sox are enjoying another off day - the second one in the past week, not counting all the rain delays – before embarking on yet another 10- day road trip, it gives me a chance to catch up some goings-on regarding the team. #1: What will happen to Dice-K now that he is disabled [...]
Dice-K drilled, Sox fall from first
The more I watch Daisuke Matsuzaka pitch, the more I wonder how the hell that man ever won 18 games in the major leagues last year. The mystery that is Dice-K continues to confound Sox fans every five days, as the former phenom looks more like a washed up, junkballing journeyman than the staff ace and potential Cy Young [...]
Despite rocky start and finish, Sox win in Detroit
Take away the first inning and the ninth inning of tonight’s series-opening game against the Tigers, and the Red Sox pretty much dominated Detroit. But those bookend innings made this game seem a lot closer than the final 5-1 score would indicate. Daisuke Matsuzaka earned his first win of the season by pitching his usual five [...]
Minnesota wild: Ugly loss drops Sox into a tie for first
The scoreboard may show the Red Sox lost by just two runs tonight, but this was one of those cases where the final score doesn’t tell the whole story. Not by a long shot. Boston lost one its ugliest games of the season Wednesday night in Minneapolis, dropping a 4-2 decision that could have been much [...]
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 [...]
Bosox back home, but all is not well in Beantown
I’m sure the Red Sox are thrilled to back at Fenway Park to open a nine game home stand tonight after spending the last week on the left coast, where they went 2-4 against the Angels and A’s. But just because the team has returned to the friendly confines of Fenway, don’t think the early season woes will magically disappear. [...]
Dice-K DL-bound
Looks like Tito was right to take Daisuke Matsuzaka out of the game last night after one (horrible) inning of work. The Red Sox placed Matsuzaka on the disabled list today with “shoulder fatigue”, which no doubt could be translated to ‘World Baseball Classic arm’. Dice was the MVP of the 2009 (and 2006) WBC, [...]
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 [...]
