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 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 [...]
Beckett, Big Papi blister the Bombers
The pitching performance of Josh Beckett was what stood out in Boston’s sixth consecutive victory over the New York Yankees on Tuesday night. But it was the big hit off the bat of Big Papi that will be remembered most from this game. It was a blast that could have repercussions for many months to come. Beckett turned [...]
Sloppy finish nearly ruins Beckett’s great start
For the second time this week, Boston combined a great effort by a starter with an offensive outburst from its revamped lineup. But unlike Sunday’s contest in Toronto, when Jon Lester struck out 12 Jays and Boston bashed four homers in an easy 8-2 win, tonight Josh Beckett’s near-no hitter and a 10-run explosion were [...]
The real Lester returns, and so does the Boston offense
Red Sox fans had been waiting for this day for a long time – the day when both the explosive offense and stellar starting pitching came together in perfect harmony. Mark May 31st, 2009 on the calendar, because on this day, the Nation’s dreams finally came true. For the first time in…well, maybe all season, [...]
Sox avoid sweep, take over first place
I must admit I didn’t catch any part of the last two games while I was indulging in the typical Memorial Day weekend activities of pool parties, barbecues and movie-going (Star Trek rocked, BTW!). And apparently, I didn’t miss too much. Well, other than: Josh Beckett pitching eight innings of one-run ball, only to have Jonathan Papelbon [...]
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 [...]
Beantown beatdown: Sox score 12 runs in one inning
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 [...]
Sox finally get off the schneid vs. Rays
It wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t pretty, but Boston finally solved the Tampa Bay Rays, beating them 10-6 in a game that felt much closer than the final scored indicates. Tim Wakefield (5IP, 7H, 5ER, 2BB, 5K, HR) had his worst outing of the year, allowing five earned runs in five innings of work, but [...]
