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 [...]

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 [...]

Payback’s a bitch: Sox comeback vs. O’s, win in 11

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

D-Train derails as Sox sweep Tigers

Remember a few years ago, when Dontrelle Willis of the Florida Marlins was the talk of baseball, with his sideways cap, high leg kick, smiling swagger and mesmerizing stuff? He won 14 games in his rookie year of 2003, then wowed the baseball world with a 22-10 campaign two years later that was good enough [...]

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 [...]

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 PPD again; injuries starting to pile up

The lovely New England spring weather forced the Red Sox to postpone their second home game of the young season, resulting in Boston having to play a day/night doubleheader tomorrow against the Minnesota Twins. The first home game of the 2009 season against the Rays was also pushed back a day due to inclement weather, [...]