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Runs Lacking for Lackey And The Bullpen Implodes In Sox’ Loss To A’s

By ⋅ April 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The Red Sox three-game winning streak came to an end Tuesday night in Oakland, as the Athletics beat the Sox 5-0. The Sox got an outstanding start from a previously slumping starter for the second straight game. John Lackey followed up a solid performance from Daisuke Matsuzaka on Marahton Monday with a gem of his [...]

Beckett Comes Through as Red Sox Beat Blue Jays

By ⋅ April 16, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Somehow, the Red Sox managed to get the 4-1 win over Toronto. You can thank Toronto starter Jo-Jo Reyes for that, thanks to his early struggles. Boston really had trouble afterwards, but they had enough to win thanks to Beckett’s help. A single, walk, single and double to start the 1st gave Boston the 2-0 [...]

Carl Crawford Benched Against Blue Jays, Lowrie To Lead Off

By ⋅ April 16, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Carl Crawford was benched by Terry Francona for the Red Sox game against the Blue Jays on Saturday. Crawford was 0-5 Friday night, including an at bat leading off the ninth where he struck out on three pitches against Jon Rauch. He was booed off the field. “They have to boo,” Crawford said after the [...]

Panic at the Sports Bar? Part 2: The Red Sox

By ⋅ April 13, 2011 ⋅ One comment

To think, before the second inning of Monday night’s game, things were really starting to look up for the Red Sox. Enter Daisuke “Wet Blanket” Matsuzaka. Winning the first home series of the season against the Yankees, and doing it with a 2007 Josh Beckett on the mound, was enough to lift spirits after a [...]

Red Sox Still On Track For 0-162 After Loss to Indians

By ⋅ April 7, 2011 ⋅ One comment

The Red Sox just love finding new ways to lose. They’ve lost on terrible pitching and terrible hitting, and now in a 1-0 loss to the Indians, you can throw terrible base running and terrible umpiring into the mix. Both pitching staffs did quite well in the game, especially the starters, so scoring chances were [...]

In Defense of Theo Epstein After Buck Showalter’s Criticism

By ⋅ March 26, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Also Read: SoB’s Mike Carlucci thinks Buck Showalter brought up some good points about Theo Epstein and the Red Sox fat wallet. Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter is no fan of Theo Epstein. In the April edition of Men’s Journal, Showalter said that overpaying for players because you have the highest payroll in Major League [...]

Red Sox Spring Training (3/14-3/20): Rotation Set Thursday, Roster Trimmed Twice

By ⋅ March 21, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sports of Boston’s coverage of Red Sox Spring Training rolls on! April 1 fast approaches, and the Red Sox Opening Day roster is definitely taking shape. Terry Francona announced Wednesday that Jon Lester would open the regular season against the Texas Rangers in Arlington. On Thursday, Francona set the rest of the starting rotation. John [...]

Extending Francona: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

By ⋅ February 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sports Illustrated writer Jon Heyman tweeted Tuesday that the Red Sox “intend” to pick up manager Terry Francona’s two-year, $9 million extension, meaning that Francona will be with the ball club through 2013. Already the second-longest-tenured manager in Red Sox history, Francona and general manager Theo Epstein also tie Chicago White Sox GM Kenny Williams [...]

Live Blog: Carl Crawford Press Conference

By ⋅ December 11, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Welcome to SoB’s live blog of the Carl Crawford press conference, taking place today, Saturday December 11, 2010, live at Fenway Park at 10:00am EST. It’s being broadcast on NESN, and streamed online here, so be sure to tune into the conference by some means and watch the next big bat officially come on board [...]

Curt Young: The New, Underrated Red Sox Pitching Coach

By ⋅ November 5, 2010 ⋅ One comment

The other night, on Comcast’s Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight, Gary Tanguay and Mike Felger brought up the role of a pitching coach in major league baseball. Tanguay asked Felger something to the extent of “who can tell if a pitching coach is good or bad?” Felger failed to make much comment on the subject, except [...]

Mike Lowell To Retire: The Tale of Two Contracts

By ⋅ September 14, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Coming off a World Series win with the Marlins in 2003 and a strong season in 2004, Mike Lowell headed into 2005 with high hopes for another big year in south Florida. Instead, he flopped like a fish out of water, bashing just eight home runs in 150 games that season, which turned out to [...]

Buchholz Does Not Bring ‘A’ Game in Loss in Oakland

By ⋅ September 11, 2010 ⋅ One comment

It was a strange, strange evening at the Oakland Collesium on Friday night. Coco Crisp and Jeremy Hermida started…in the A’s outfield. Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz and the bullpen both had very opposite outings (in terms of quality)…with Buch drawing the short end of that stick. Entering Friday, Buchholz had not allowed more than [...]

Red Sox on Wrong End of Walk-off

By ⋅ August 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

If nothing else, this season has been full of drama for the Red Sox. This time, it was another trough rather than a crest, and the Rays walked off with a win 3-2 in 10 innings. The Sox took the lead in the 4th when Adrian Beltre hit a sac fly following a single from [...]

Felix Doubront Gets the Call…to the Bullpen

By ⋅ August 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Major League Baseball trade deadline came and went for the Red Sox, absent of any wave-making news. There was no Manny Ramirez to ship out of town or Eric Gagne headed in, this year, Boston brass felt fine standing pat. Relief pitching often comes at a premium mid-summer, and rather than invite new faces, [...]

Red Sox Throw Away Rubber Match But Get It Back

By ⋅ August 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The “Seinfeld” spirit is alive and well with Detroit, who handed the Red Sox a 4-3 victory after Boston handed back a 3-0 lead. The biggest enemy of both sides, at least early on, was the Sun, which led to Marco Scutaro singling on a pop-up to short, then stealing 2nd. Even with J.D. Drew [...]

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