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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 [...]

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 [...]

Daniel Bard has emerged as one of the Red Sox most reliable relievers.  In his last 13 innings (since June 28th), Bard has allowed just 4 hits, no walks and no runs during the incredible stretch.  Oh and by the way – he also has 23 of the 39 outs recorded in that span have [...]

The Red Sox began a big 9-game road trip with a 6-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles.  The Red Sox are only 24-25 on the road this season. John Smoltz picked up his 2nd win of the season despite giving up 5 ER in 6 innings of work.  The bullpen – Ramon Ramirez, Hideki Okajima [...]

Jonathan Papelbon didn’t know what hit him on Tuesday night.  The A’s rallied for 3 runs in the top of the 9th inning off of the Red Sox usually reliable closer, and went on to defeat the Red Sox 9-8 in 11 innings.  The 14 hits and 8 runs for the Red Sox were nice, [...]

Finally – the Red Sox ended their 5-game losing streak with a big 3-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night at Fenway Park.  Closer Jonathan Papelbon picked up his 25th save of the 2009 MLB schedule, but made it interesting in the 9th inning.  After giving up back-to-back singles to start the 9th [...]

After a promising start to the weekend series in Toronto with Friday night’s 4-1 win over the Blue Jays, the Red Sox dropped the last 2 games and opened the 2nd half of 2009 on a down note. In Friday night’s win, Clay Buchholz made the spot start for the Red Sox to give the [...]

It wasn’t pretty at the end, but John Smoltz finally earned his 1st 2009 victory as the Red Sox defeated the Royals 15-9 at Fenway Park on Saturday night.  Smoltz did his part – 5 innings pitched, 1 ER, 4 hits, 1 walk and 7K’s.  But he had to throw a lot of pitches – [...]

The Red Sox defeated the A’s 5-2 on Tuesday night at Fenway Park.  Josh Beckett pitched 6 2/3 innings, giving up just 2 ER on 6 hits and 1 walk.  He struck out 4.  Hideki Okajima, Justin Masterson and Jonthan Paplebon finished off the final 2 1/3 innings to preserve the win for the Red [...]

The Red Sox have split the 1st 2 games of the 3-game series against the Orioles this week in Baltimore.  Jon Lester dominated in the Red Sox 4-0 win over the Orioles on Monday night – 7 IP, 5 hits, 0 runs or walks, & 5 K’s.  Jonathan Papelbon closed out the game for his [...]