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The Red Sox and Mariners split the day-night double-header at Fenway Park on Wednesday.
Playoff Watch –
Yankees 6-3 loss to Blue Jays — 5.5 games lead over Red Sox.
Rays 12-3 loss to Angels — 5.5 games lead over Red Sox.
Red Sox 5, Mariners 3
The Good — Josh Beckett – 6 1/3 innings – 3 ER on [...]

That was a tough loss on Tuesday night.  We had double the hits that the A’s did, yet still lost 5-4 in 10 innings.  So painful…
That “phantom” balk call in the 10th inning on Ramon Ramirez clearly set up the game-winning single by Kevin Kouzmanoff.  If the balk doesn’t move Daric Barton over to 2nd [...]

The Red Sox recovered from a rough 4-game series against the Rangers at Fenway Park over the weekend to pull off a nice 2-1 win over the A’s in Oakland.
The Good — Daisuke Matsuzaka – 6 2/3 quality innings allowing just 2 hits and 2 walks while making only 89 pitches.  The lone A’s run [...]

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 Tim [...]

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 the bump [...]

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 [...]

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 inning homer [...]

The Red Sox defeated the Orioles 3-2 at Fenway Park on Friday night.
The Good – Tim Wakefield – what a great start for the struggling righty.  He pitched 8 strong innings, scattering 7 hits and giving up just 2 earned runs.  Great job, Tim!
The Good – Jonathan Papelbon pitched a perfect 9th inning with 2 [...]

It hasn’t been pretty for the Red Sox on their west coast road trip so far. The Red Sox fell to the Giants 5-4.
The Good – Kevin Youkilis – 2 for 4 with 3 RBI’s and 2 runs scored.  He hit his 15th HR of the season, a 3-run shot that gave the Red Sox [...]

The Red Sox defeated the Dodgers for a 2nd straight day – 5-4 – on a walk-off single from Dustin Pedroia with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th inning off Dodgers closer Jonathan Broxton.  The win ran the Red Sox winning streak to 5 games and they kept pace with the Rays and [...]