Less than 24 hours after losing one of the most humiliating and heartbreaking games in team history, blowing a 10-1 lead and losing 11-10 to the Orioles, the Boston Red Sox exacted a measure of revenge by staging a miniaturized comeback of their own. Trailing 5-1 entering the ninth inning Wednesday afternoon, the Sox scored four [...]
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 [...]
Rookie rightfielder rescues Red Sox
I missed the first five innings of tonight’s game as I watched my son’s Little League team clinch the Top Team for the 2009 spring season (congrats, GLLL Bulls!). Turned out that was a good thing, since the Sox game didn’t start to get interesting until the sixth innning anyway. Boston erased a 5-0 deficit [...]
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 [...]
