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Disappointing Weekend Series @ Fenway Park for Red Sox – Red Sox 3, Rangers 2 – 7/17/10 & Red Sox 2, Rangers 4 – 7/18/10

Ouch – it was a miserable weekend for the Red Sox against the Rangers at Fenway Park.  3 tough losses – now losers of 7 of their last 10 games.  The Red Sox find themselves 6.5 games behind the Yankees for 1st place in the AL East and 3.5 games behind the Rays for the [...]

Ouch – Wakefield A Disaster as Red Sox Drop Game 1 After Break – Red Sox 2, Rangers 7 7/15/10

Not the way the Red Sox wanted to start the 2nd half – with a 7-2 disappointing loss to the Rangers at Fenway Park.  It really makes you wonder if the Red Sox will be able to hold on and stay close enough before the big guns get back. A 6-run 1st inning did in [...]

Red Sox Open up 2nd Half Against 1st Place Rangers @ Fenway Park

The Red Sox open up the 2nd half of the season against the red-hot 1st place Texas Rangers. The Red Sox trail the New York Yankees by 5 games for 1st place in the AL East and they trail the Tampa Bay Rays by 3 games for the AL Wild Card lead. Tim Wakefield takes [...]

Boston Red Sox All-Stars – David Ortiz, Jon Lester, Adrian Beltre – All-Star Game – NL 3, AL 1 – 7/13/10

It wasn’t the best performance by Red Sox all-stars, but it wasn’t awful either.  The NL defeated the AL 3-1 in the 2010 Midsummer Classic All-Star Game, breaking a 13-year winless drought in the process. Jon Lester worked a perfect 6th inning for the American League. David Ortiz was 1 for 2 with a single [...]

David Ortiz Wins Home Run Derby — 7/12/10

Red Sox slugger david Ortiz won the All-Star Game’s Home Run Derby on Monday night in Anaheim.  Big Papi took out Hanley Ramirez – a former Red Sox minor league star – with 11 home runs in the final round. Ortiz hit a total of 32 homers in all 4 rounds, which moved him into [...]

Red Sox Finish 1st Half on Positive Note — Red Sox 3, Blue Jays 2 — Sunday 7/11/10

The Red Sox defeated the Blue Jays 3-2 on Sunday to win the rubber game of the 3-game weekend series in Toronto.  At 51-37, the Red Sox trail the Yankees by 5 games for 1st place in the AL East and the Rays by 3 games for the AL Wild Card lead. The Good — [...]

Red Sox Take 2 of 3 from Blue Jays in Toronto — Red Sox 14, Blue Jays 3 Friday 7/9/10 & Red Sox 5, Blue Jays 9 Saturday 7/10/10

The Red Sox did what they needed to do – win at least 2 of the 3 games against the Blue Jays in Toronto this weekend. On Friday night, the Red Sox clobbered the Blue Jays 14-3.  The Red Sox pounded out 14 runs on 14 hits and 8 walks.  WOW!  They got home runs [...]

Red Sox Giving it Back; Injury Update – Josh Beckett, Clay Buchholz; Lester to Take on Blue Jays – 7/9/10

After a brutal start to the season, the Red Sox found themselves staring down double-digit deficits to both the Rays and Yankees in the AL East race.  But it never got the team down, and after a beautiful stretch of games in late May and through the entire month of June, the Red Sox found [...]

Rays Sweep Rays with 6-4 Win in Tampa – 7/7/10

The Rays completed a 3-game sweep of the Red Sox in Tampa with a 6-4 win on Wednesday night.  The Red Sox have now lost 4 straight games and they have fallen 4.5 games behind the Yankees in the AL East race and 2.5 games behind the Rays in the AL Wild Card race.  Not [...]

Red Sox Lose Again – Injuries Taking Toll – Red Sox 2, Rays 3 – 7/6/10

The Red Sox lost to the Rays 3-2 for a 3rd loss in a row.  Not good. Felix Doubront pitched OK in his 2nd major league start – 2 ER on 5 hits and 4 walks.  He worked out of jams despite his wildness to limit the damage. Hideki Okajima served up Carl Crawford’s 8th [...]