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Wow – that wasn’t fun.  The Red Sox held on for an 8-7 win over the O’s and stayed tied with the Rays for the Al Wild Card Lead.  Catcher Ryan Lavarnway – who has given the Red Sox a much-needed power boost behind the plate – homered twice in the win.  His 3-run bomb [...]

The Yankees used a 3-run rally off of Alfredo Aceves and Daniel Bard in the 7th inning to take the rubber game of the 3-game series 4-2.  The win pushed the Yankees back within one half game of the Red Sox for 1st place in the AL East race. Jon Lester labored through 5 innings [...]

Not the way you want to play on get-away day, especially when it’s Sunday Night ESPN baseball and you have a game in Baltimore the next night.  The Red Sox out-lasted the Rays in 16 innings last night/this morning, beating the Rays 1-0 on Dustin Pedroia’s 2-out single.  Josh Reddick led off the inning with [...]

It was not a good weekend for the Red Sox in Pittsburgh.  After dropping the 1st 2 games, the Red Sox “backed into” a 4-2 win behind a great starting effort from Andrew Miller.  3 of the 4 runs scored by the Red Sox were unearned.  They scored their 1st unearned run in the 4th [...]

The Red Sox dropped a 5-4 roller coaster ride game to the Padres on Tuesday despite out-hitting San Diego 13-7.  The Red Sox had 10 hits and 4 walks against starter Mat Latos but managed to score only 4 ER in his 5+ innings of work.  After taking a 1-0 1st inning lead, the Padres [...]

The Red Sox jumped all over Freddy Garcia with a 3-run 1st en route to a 6-4 win over the Yankees in the Bronx.  Jacoby Ellsbury set the tone with a lead-off home run and the Red Sox added 2 more runs on an Adrian Gonzalez triple and a Kevin Youokilis sacrifice fly as the [...]

It wasn’t pretty, but the Red Sox got back on track with a 3-game weekend sweep over the A’s at Fenway Park. On Saturday, the Red Sox bailed out Jonathan Papelbon who blew a 4-run lead in the 9th inning.  J.D. Drew’s single in the bottom of the 14th inning allowed the Red Sox to [...]

Daniel Bard wasted Josh Beckett’s gem by allowing back-to-back home runs to Brian Boesch and Miguel Cabrera in the 8th inning which tied the game at 3.  But the Red Sox rallied for the 4-3 walk-win on another clutch hit by Carl Crawford who is getting used to knocking in or scoring the winning run [...]

The Red Sox defeated the Tigers 1-0 in a pitcher’s duel in a cold, wet and windy game at Fenway Park on Wednesday night.  Clay Buchholz held the Tigers to 4 hits in his 7 scoreless innings, while Phil Coke held the Red Sox to just 3 hits in his 7 scoreless innings.  The Red [...]

The Red Sox took it to the Yankees with solid pitching and clutch hitting during the weekend sweep in the Bronx. The Red Sox blanked the Yankees on Saturday 6-0.  Josh Beckett continued his phenomenal pitching this season, tossing 6 scoreless innings and giving up just 4 hits and 2 walks in his outing.  He [...]