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The Red Sox completed a much-needed 3-game sweep of the Blue Jays in Toronto with an 8-1 drubbing on Thursday night.  Jon Lester recovered from a shaky 1st inning – a no-out, bases loaded jam diffused with a run-scoring Rod Barrajas double play – to shut down the Blue Jays over the next 7 innings.  [...]

Just when everyone was getting ready to count out the Red Sox, Clay Buchholz outduels Roy Halladay 6-1, and the Red Sox take back the AL Wild Card lead over the Texas Rangers by a game.  The Red Sox roughed up Halladay for 5 runs on 8 hits and 2 walks in just 5 innings [...]

The Red Sox got back into a tie with the Rangers for the AL Wild Card lead despite poor outings from 2 of their most reliable pitchers – Josh Beckett & Jonathan Papelbon. Beckett was given leads of 4-0, 6-2 and 7-3, but couldn’t make any of those leads stand against the Blue Jays on [...]

Kevin Youkilis will be back in the Red Sox lineup against the Blue Jays on Tuesday night in Toronto.  Youkilis decided to serve the 5 game suspension handed down for charging the mound against Rick Porcello last week at Fenway Park after Porcello plunked Youkilis early in the game.  It was the 2nd night in [...]

Winning Friday night’s game with a 6-run 9th inning against Rangers closer Frankie Francisco proved even more important as the Red Sox dropped the final 2 games in Arlington.  The Red Sox lost Sunday’s game 4-3 and fell a 1/2 game behind the Rangers for the AL wild card lead.  This frustrating season feels more [...]

Junichi Tazawa will be feeling the heat again in his 2nd major league start on Sunday against the Rangers in Texas.  The Red Sox and Rangers are duking it out for the wild card lead and Sunday’s finale could determine who is in the driver’s seat for the last 50 games of the 2009 MLB [...]

WOW!!!  It didn’t look good there going into the 9th inning, but the Red Sox rallied for 6 runs off of Rangers Closer Francisco Rodriguez to win 8-4 in Arlington.  Unbelievable.  Here’s how the 9th inning played out – David Ortiz lead-off double; Jason Varitek single; Jacoby Ellsbury RBI single that scored Ortiz to cut [...]

What are the Red Sox going to do with John Smoltz?  The Red Sox designated John Smoltz for assignment after his debacle against the Yankees in New York (and 7 other bad starts – 2-5 record with an 8.33 ERA, ).  The Red Sox wanted Smoltz to consider a bullpen spot for the pennant run, [...]

All in all, it was a successful series for the Red Sox – taking 3 of 4 games from the AL Central-leading Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park.  After a disastrous end to their 9 game road trip on Sunday – 6 straight losses to the Yankees and Rays, winning more than losing this week was [...]

It turned into a slugfest at Fenway Park on Tuesday night, and the Red Sox emerged victorious with a dramatic 7-5 win over the Tigers. Kevin Youkilis charged the mound after getting plunked by a Porcello pitch for the 2nd night in a row. Junichi Tazawa picked up his 1st major league win by pitching [...]