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Clay Buchholz Ready to Earn Starting Rotation Spot

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 Dominates Mets — 3 Straight Scoreless Starts

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 Continues to Look Sharp

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, [...]

Pitchers Struggle in Red Sox 8-4 Loss to O’s; But Wakefield is Optimistic

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 Misses Scheduled Sunday Start

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 GM [...]

Red Sox, Josh Beckett in Talks for Long-Term Deal

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 [...]

Daisuke Matsuzaka Stiff Neck Slows his Return

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 Continues Strong Spring

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 out [...]

Jon Lester Bounces Back with Strong Outing Against Rays

Jon Lester pitched much better in his 2nd start of the spring.  Even though the Red Sox ended up losing to the Tampa Rays 8-6, Lester shined during his 2 2/3 innings pitched.  He gave up just 1 unearned run on 2 hits and 1 walk.  Lester also struck out 4 batters on the day.  [...]

Tim Wakefield Looks Sharp in Spring Debut

Tim Wakefield tossed 3 shutout innings in his spring debut in Tuesday’s 9-0 win over the Florida Marlins.  Wakefield stymied a hard-hitting Marlins ball club that had been raking the ball so far this spring.  Wakefield needed just 30 pitches (22 strikes) to record his 9 outs.  He gave up 2 hits and struck out [...]