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It wasn’t Fenway Park, but Daisuke Matsuzaka’s 1st start against live hitters this spring was as good as it gets.  Matsuzaka has been dealing with a sore back and other related issues this spring.  After an awful 2009 (4-6 record, 5.76 ERA, 1.87 WHIP) that Dice-K wanted to put in his rearview mirror, being out [...]

The good news is that Josh Beckett returned to live game action after dealing with an undisclosed illness.  The bad news – the Pirates really took it to the Red Sox ace, touching him for 4 earned runs on 6 hits and 2 walks (including 1 home run) over 3 1/3 innings.  Beckett had been [...]

Clay Buchholz has his sights set on making the major league roster as a starting pitcher when camp breaks in early April.  The ball club had the day off on Thursday, but the Red Sox had Buchholz pitch a minor league game against the Minnesota Twins’ Class A squad in order to keep Buchholz on [...]

John Lackey is really living up to they hype — he threw 4 scoreless innings against the New York Mets on Wednesday, giving up just 2 hits and no walks with 3 strikeouts.  Talk about tough.  For the spring, he has now made 3 starts, pitching 9 scoreless innings while giving up a total of [...]

Jon Lester pitched 4 innings of 1-run ball in Tuesday’s 3-0 loss to the Houston Astros managed by former bench coach Brad Mills.  Lester did give up 3 hits and 2 walks, but he managed to limit the damage to just 1 earned run.  He is slowly working up his innings and fine-tuning his pitches, [...]

Red Sox pitchers struggled in the team’s 8-4 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Monday in Fort Myers.  Tim Wakefield gave up 5 earned runs on a whopping 9 hits in just 3 2/3 innings pitched.  Although the box score was ugly, Wakefield tried to take away a few positives from the outing — “Physically, [...]

Josh Beckett missed his scheduled turn in the rotation on Sunday.  He is battling some sort of flu or virus, so the club did not want to take any chances with their ace.  It does not appear to be arm or leg related or any other pitching related injury. This is very strange.  Let’s hope [...]

Finally – it seems like a long time ago when we 1st discussed whether the Red Sox would try to lock up soon-to-be free agent Josh Beckett this spring.  Well it looks like talks are in the works to keep Beckett in a Red Sox uniform in Boston for the foreseeable future.  This is GREAT [...]

So much for Daisuke Matsuzaka staying on track this spring.  A stiff neck forced Dice-K to miss a scheduled live batting practice session this morning.  He never even got to throw one single pitch because of the neck situation.  It would have been the first time that he faced live hitters this spring.  If all [...]

John Lackey tossed 3 scoreless innings in the Red Sox 8-2 win over the New York Mets on Thursday afternoon.  Lackey gave up just 3 hits and no walks and he has not allowed  a run in both spring starts thus far. Junichi Tazawa also worked 2 scoreless innings allowing just 1 walk while striking [...]