Let’s end the regular season already

Football is in full swing, both college and pro. Bruins training cap has already begun, and the Cs will unveil their great Rasheed Wallace experiment a few weeks from now. But with the Pats surprisingly swooning, the Bs dumping quality players, and the Celts sorting out AARP benefits, Beantown still needs its Sox to provide a boost at this [...]

Beckett bomb keeps Rays playoff hopes alive

Last night, the Red Sox had a chance to put Tampa Bay’s 2009 playoffs plans in serious jeopardy, as a Boston win would have left the Rays seven games out of the Wild Card lead with exactly 30 games left to play. With ace Josh Beckett on the hill, momentum from the previous night’s satisfying 8-4 win [...]

Are you ready for some football?! Stanks punt Sox

Clear the weekend calendar, make plans to hang with the family, schedule that vacation in early October and get your football face on, because the 2009 baseball season is effectively over for Red Sox Nation. Just when you thought the four game broom job New York applied to Boston in the Bronx two weekends ago, which featured one shellacking [...]

Sox take step back as Rangers run all over them

The 2009 Red Sox have mastered the art of letting an opponent take an extra base. Or three. Or eight. For the second time this season, a Boston battery allowed eight stolen bases in a game, and for the eighth time in the last dozen games, the Sox suffered a demoralizing loss. Both stats represent [...]

A Bronx Fail

Six games, six losses, each more excruciating than the last. That is the misery Red Sox fans have had to endure over the last week, one that began with the Bosox pummelling the Baltimore Orioles with an 18-run, 23 hit barrage, and ended with a demoralizing late-inning loss to the Stanks that put the finishing touches on [...]

Smoltz experiment officially a disaster; Yanks crush Sox

The Red Sox, still stinging from a pair of lackluster losses suffered at the hands of new rival Tampa Bay, had a great chance to turn things around and extend their winning streak to nine games over old rival New York tonight. After jumping out to an early 3-1 lead, courtesy of a pair of homers including [...]

Bullpen blows another, homestand gets uglier

Heading into this 10 game homestand against some of the less-talented teams in the American League, the Red Sox were expected to fatten their record – and their lead in the East – before heading into the All Star break on a high note. What’s that line about the best laid plans…? Instead of cruising into [...]

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 [...]

Bewildered in B’More: Sox blow 10-1 lead, lose 11-10

As the Red Sox were running out to a 9-1 lead in the fifth inning  Tuesday night, Orioles broadcaster Gary Thorne made this ridiculous comment: “now this one is starting to get ugly.” “Starting to get ugly?”, I said to my son. “With this (Boston) bullpen, this game is over!” Oh how wrong we both [...]

Smoltz does his best Dice-K impersonation

Raise your hand if you didn’t see this coming? An aging pitcher with a surgically repaired shoulder takes the hill for the first time in over a year against a hungry, hapless young club that could have easily won the first two games of this three game set if it weren’t for a few bad [...]