The Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago Cubs 7-4 on Sunday night at Wrigley Field to move back to .500. Franklin Morales made an emergency start due to Josh Beckett being placed on the DL on Saturday with shoulder inflammation. It was his first start since 2009, when he was with Colorado, and he pitched [...]
Friday night represented Game 1 of Boston’s 9-game road trip in NL parks, which as you know by now, presents manager Terry Francona with a bit of a problem. How is he going to play David Ortiz without the benefit of the designated hitter? There has been talk about moving Adrian Gonzalez to the outfield [...]
Dammit! That was almost perfect alliteration. A few weeks have passed and the baseball season is in full swing. To those owners who need pitching help, I would like to suggest an unlikely source: Pittsburgh’s Paul Maholm. Granted, he has not been exactly what you would call “flashy” over the past few seasons. In his [...]