You watch thousands of baseball games over a 30 year period and you think you’ve just about seen it all. And then something happens like what happened at Fenway tonight, and you’re hit with the realization that no, you really haven’t. The Red Sox turned a 2-1 deficit into a 13-1 lead when they scored [...]
Battered Bosox produce lackluster loss
Playing without two of its key starters and back home for the first time in 10 days, the Red Sox looked like a team that was both beat up and worn down Wednesday night, dropping a lazy 9-2 decision to the inferior Indians. With Kevin Youkilis (rib strain) and Jacoby Ellsbury (hamstring) sidelined with nagging pains, the [...]
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 [...]
Sloppy Sox end streak in disgusting fashion
There are good ways to end an 11-game winning streak, and there are bad ways to end an 11-game winning streak. Tonight, the Red Sox presented Exhibit A of the WORST way to end an 11-game winning streak in dropping a 9-8 heart-breaker to the Indians. Boston blew four leads and committed three atrocious errors, the last one [...]
11th Heaven – Sox win again
No, Boston’s 3-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians tonight at the ballpark formerly known as Jacobs Field was NOT another come-from-behind win. Technically, it was a come-from-being-tied win. The Red Sox and Indians battled to a scoreless tie for eight innings before both teams’ closers allowed the only runs of the game in the ninth; [...]
