Can someone please give this man eight more years in office? Big Papi that is. Seriously, if David Ortiz doesn’t run the city of Boston then who will? Tom Menino? No! Menino doesn’t even want to, he wants Papi to do it himself. “I’d like to see an eight-year deal myself,” Menino said when asked [...]
There’s no arguing that Rich Harden is one of the most talented pitchers in the major leagues. The one thing preventing him from taking the next big step is his inability to stay healthy. He looked very strong however against the Red Sox Friday night, striking out eight in six innings of work while allowing [...]
The long road trip for the Red Sox is finally over but it ends with a third straight loss to the Blue Jays, 7-4 today at the Rogers Centre. Josh Beckett made his first start of the season and pitched decent until running into trouble in the fifth. Beckett had allowed just three hits but [...]
Oh Canada, our neighbors from the north. The Jays once again finished 3rd in the AL East behind the Sox and Yankees. This is no longer the franchise from the glory days of the early 90′s but there is most definitely some pure talent in this lineup. Of course the notion that Toronto can overcome [...]
It’s a bad pitching match up. A.J. Burnett (8-7, 3.42) has had seven straight quality starts. And in that time hasn’t allowed more then 3 ER. In the last two starts he’s allowed only 1 ER and had 8 K’s. Jon Lester (4-0, 4.86) in nine starts this year has allowed four or more earned [...]
Lowell hits a three run shot. He now has a 16 game hitting streak. At the start of Lowell’s hitting streak he was hitting .310. He is now hitting .333. And Lowell now has 99 RBI’s. Pedroia got another multi-hit game in his first three! at bats. He is 3-5 so far. Putting his average [...]