Another day, another roster move for the revolving red Sox

In a season such as this, where injuries and ineffectiveness have hampered a team that was once the favorite to win the American League East but is now hanging on for dear life to a Wild Card berth, you can expect there to be quite a bit of turnaround with the roster. But not even in [...]

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 [...]

Trip to the Trop another unmitigated flop

In years past, a visit to Tampa Bay by my beloved Bosox would be a reason to celebrate, get out of the house, and enjoy a baseball game that I was virtually assured I would enjoy the outcome of. Right now those days seem like a long, long time ago. But there’s a reason I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Eight is enough: Sox comeback to sweep the Stanks

Mattapan Manny Delcarmen tried his darnedest to break the Sox streak of seven straight wins over the Stanks last night. But the never-say-die Sox, led by the resurgent bat of David Ortiz (2-3, R, BI, BB), would not let the second-longest such winning streak to start a season in Sox history end without a fight. [...]

Penny’s stock plummets as trade winds swirl

Right around the time temporary Red Sox analyst Dennis Eckersley made the comment that Boston starter Brad Penny was pitching ‘the best he has all year”, the rotund righty collapsed like the Cowboy’s practice facility and surrendered four runs in the blink of an eye. Moral of the story: the Nation needs Jerry Remy, a.k.a. El [...]

Bad pitching, blown leads still plague slumping Sox

When the Red Sox arrived in Toronto, the Jays were coming off an 0-9 road trip that began in Boston, and the final loss came Wednesday in Baltimore when they blew an 8-3, eight inning lead to lose 12-11 in 11 innings. Three days later Toronto has won two straight over the streaky Red Sox, and both victories have been of the [...]