…It just did not happen last night…
This was one of those games where everything seemed to line up: Beckett on the mound, a crappy 0-3 fill-in pitcher for Cleveland (he replaced our #4-5 starter, Paul Byrd!) and the Sox were hitting (12 hits in all) BUT, it just seemed like they were always that one [...]

With the last road trip of the Regular Season completed for 2008 (The Sox went 3-3 in that span), The Boston Red Sox will be able to do something they have not done in a while–clinch a spot in the Postseason at home.
There are 7 games left to play, and the Sox Magic # stands [...]

Holy Buckets! How does a pitcher do a complete 360 in the span of 3 starts???
September 6th: One of, if not the worst outing of Wake’s career…Against Texas–A 15-8 loss: 1 2/3 Innings pitched, giving up 7 runs on 4 hits, while walking 4 and striking out 1–and using 49 pitches to do it (26 [...]

Apparently, the role of Tim “I pitch REALLY well, but get no run support” Wakefield is now being played by Josh Beckett–and he pitched about as well as anyone could expect, going 8 innings, and only giving up the 1 run, a homer to, who else, Carlos Pena.
Speaking of Carlos Pena, a guy I work [...]

Big Papi (3-run blast), Mike Lowell, Jason Bay, and Jacoby Ellsbury (each a solo shot), Jason Varitek and Kevin Youkilis (each a 2-run shot) –in total 6 homers in 1 game, contributing to 10 of the 13 runs the Sox score in last night’s shelling of Ray’s ace, Scott Kazmir (3IP, giving up 9 runs [...]

I stayed up until Mike Timlin came into the game, and then knowing EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, I went to bed. And I awake this morning, and I look at the scores and see that Mike Timlin, who is tied with Kent Tekulve for the most relief appearances ever by a right hander with 1,050, [...]

Once again, the Sox cannot deliver the death blow against a 1/2 decent team (or the Skanks).THIS was the opportunity to get into 1st place for the 1st time since JULY–and this was a cluster from beginning to end:
Starting with Vintage Daisuke: 5 innings of 102 pitch ball (61 for strikes), giving up 3 runs [...]

On the day the Sox broke the major league record for consecutive sell outs at 456, it is only fitting they would get a win…
And this win moves them to 1/2 game (1 in the loss column) even closer to winning the AL East and getting to the postseason…
AND, with Minnesota being off yesterday, they [...]

Even though there was no sweep to be had, the Sox won their 6th series in a row this weekend, thanks to some stellar pitching from Josh Beckett (5 inning of no-run, 4 hit ball, while walking 0 and striking out 7) and last night from Paul Byrd (6 2/3 innings of shut out 3-hit [...]

After 5 tries, the Sox have finally gotten over the whole only winning 2/3 of a series hump–and it was a close one. It took a throwing error from the cookies to get the 9th inning walk off win–but it’s sometimes better to be lucky than good–so we’ll take the win.
And with their 82nd win, [...]