Solid starts help Sox turn corner

Following that 13-12 softball game in Toronto on Monday night, Boston put the finishing touches on a three game sweep of the Blue Jays with a pair of well-played, close victories on Tuesday and Wednesday, running its current win streak to 7-2.  And although the final two games were tight nailbiters, one thing set them apart from most [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Offense clicking, but pitching problems abound

After dropping a five hit, four RBI performance in Boston’s 18-10 shellacking of the Orioles on Sunday, the acquisition of Victor Martinez looked like a stroke of genius for Theo the Boy Wonder Epstein. Well, for one series at least. V-Mart tore the Baltimore Orioles a new one this weekend, going 6 for 11 with a pair [...]

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 [...]

Despite rocky start and finish, Sox win in Detroit

Take away the first inning and the ninth inning of tonight’s series-opening game against the Tigers, and the Red Sox pretty much dominated Detroit. But those bookend innings made this game seem a lot closer than the final 5-1 score would indicate. Daisuke Matsuzaka earned his first win of the season by pitching his usual five [...]