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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Lucky 7: Sox hang on for seventh straight win over Stanks
When Jonathan Papelbon came out for the bottom of the ninth inning, with the Red Sox leading 6-5 and the two toughest hitters in the Yankee lineup due up, you could almost feel palpable tension in the air instead of the superiority complex fans normally enjoy when one of the best closers in baseball enters a tight, [...]
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 [...]
Sox run streak to five straight over soggy Stanks
They might not be able to solve the sneaky Tampa Bay Rays, but the Sox have had no problem handling the Bronx Bummers so far this season. For the second game in a row Boston jumped out to a 4-0 lead on the pinstripers, and for the second straight night, they weathered (pun intended) a Stankee [...]
Delayed gratification: Sox beat Stanks in the wee hours
It took nearly four hours of game time, and six hours of actual time, but the Red Sox emerged from the soggy series opener against the Yanks with their fourth straight win, 6-4, over their arch rivals. After waiting 2+ hours for the heavy Northeastern rains to subside, the Sox quickly grabbed a four run lead when the [...]
Perfect 10: Sox sweep Stanks for 10th straight win
After watching the first two unbelievable ballgames of this series, in which the Red Sox came back from two down in the ninth inning Friday and then from a 6-0 deficit Saturday to win both games, I ended my last post with the comment “Tomorrow night, 8:00, ESPN. What’s next?” How about a straight steal of home plate? Jacoby Ellsbury [...]
