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September 13, 2009 - September 19, 2009 Archives
11:10 PM Sat, Sep 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi  Email
This is the way to lock up a postseason spot. At the time of the year when they need it most, the Red sox are dominating lesser opponents, just as a playoff team should. The Orioles put up a fight......
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5:57 PM Sat, Sep 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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Dustin Pedroia raced around the bases in the third inning Friday night, trying to motor home from first base on a double by Victor Martinez, with none out. As Pedroia neared third, third base coach DeMarlo Hale gave him the......
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5:55 PM Sat, Sep 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
Jason Bay was a late scratch from the lineup this afternoon, leaving the order due to continued problems with a lingering sickness. Bay came out of Friday's game in the middle innings due to flu-like symptoms, having already hit a......
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11:48 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
With two more hits tonight, Jacoby Ellsbury ran his total on the season to 171. He drove in his 52nd run of the season. He made a full-speed, running catch at the wall that surely saved a run. His next......
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11:25 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
Jason Bay is the kind of employee any boss would love. He does his job until he literally can't do it anymore. Bay came out of tonight's game in the fifth inning with what the team is calling flu-like symptoms,......
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9:47 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
As a visitor in a Baltimore stadium filled with cheering Red Sox fans, Clay Buchholz looked perfectly at home on the mound. The last time he was here, Buchholz looked anything but comfortable. It was August 2, just after the......
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7:53 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
With a third inning single, Dustin Pedroia extended his hitting streak to 10 games. One batter later, Victor Martinez one-upped him, crushing a double to the warning track to extend his own streak to 17 games, tying his career high.......
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7:23 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
Kevin Youkilis was back on the field today, manning third base and menacing opposing pitchers from his customary fourth spot in the lineup four days after visiting the hospital for what turned out to be back spasms. Youkilis' problem initially......
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7:16 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
The beneficiary of Tim Wakefield's return to the mound, however intermittently, is staff ace Josh Beckett. With Wakefield scheduled to pitch Monday, Beckett will be pushed back a day to throw Wednesday against Kansas City. The upside? Beckett gets to......
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5:50 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
Ailing Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield is on track to make a spot start Monday after throwing a successful side session today. "Everything went fine," Wakefield said. He'll be re-evaluated tomorrow, and have the strength in his weakened left leg......
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11:57 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ When a prospect is told he's getting a September callup to the big leagues, it usually means he did a lot of things right during the minor-league season and the parent club believes he can help out......
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9:46 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
According to the preliminary schedule released by Major League Baseball this week, the Red Sox are scheduled to open and close the 2010 season at Fenway Park, hosting the New York Yankees in both cases. But Rob Bradford of WEEI......
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7:49 AM Fri, Sep 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
AP photo / Charles Krupa U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Brian Zimmerman, of Rhode Island, looks in at home before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch as service men and women injured in war were honored prior to Thursday......
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7:58 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Journal Sports Writer BOSTON _ The human element in baseball is one reason the game is great. The American Pastime is revered for its success, but is built on failure. The greatest hitter who ever lived only......
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5:36 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
For one week, the Red Sox plan to go with a six-man starting rotation. With Tim Wakefield feeling better and scheduled to make a start on Monday, the Sox will simply give everyone else an extra day of rest.......
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5:25 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Victor Martinez is back, but Kevin Youkilis remains out for the Red Sox. Vlad Guerrero, who was hit in the ribs with a pitch Wednesday, is out for the Angels. Those are the changes for Thursday night's Red Sox......
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5:18 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Maybe it is because his team is on a seven-game winning streak. Maybe it is because his team has won 10 games in a row at Fenway Park. Whatever the reason, Red Sox manager Terry Francona was in a......
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5:01 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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BOSTON _ Kevin Youkilis will not start Thursday for the Red Sox in the series finale against the Angels, but it likely will be the last game he misses. ``We're not going to play him tonight, at least not......
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3:56 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Steve Perry, the former lead singer of the rock band Journey, is a big San Francisco Giants fan, and when the Giants play at Dodger Stadium he's always there, wearing his Giants cap and rooting for them to beat their......
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3:46 PM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Los Angeles Angels closer Brian Fuentes, who appeared to have thrown a game-ending strike three to the Red Sox' Nick Green with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth inning of a 8-7 game, suggested afterward that home-plate......
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9:19 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Dad simply wanted a souvenir - not a national television appearance. Steve Monforto won over many hearts after his 3-year-old daughter tossed a foul ball he caught at a Phillies game back onto the field. Stunned......
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12:41 AM Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON -- Back in spring training, Jed Lowrie replaced Julio Lugo. Then the season started and Nick Green replaced Lowrie. Then Lugo replaced Green. Then Green replaced Lugo. Then Lowrie replaced Green. Then Green replaced Lowrie. Finally, Alex Gonzalez replaced......
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8:09 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON -- It was back to somewhat normalcy for Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka on Wednesday. After the right-hander was solid in his first big-league start in three months on Tuesday against the Angels, Dice-K was going through his normal......
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6:26 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON -- Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield had a closed-door meeting with manager Terry Francona, GM Theo Epstein, pitching coach John Farrell and team doctor Tom Gill to determine the next step for the ailing knuckler. Wakefield will throw a......
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4:28 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Kevin Youkilis (back) and Victor Martinez (away for family reasons) remain out Wednesday for the Red Sox. That means a bit of an unusual lineup against Angels' lefty Joe Saunders, one that features Jason Bay hitting out of the......
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3:22 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Fox Sports baseball analyst Tim McCarver is a guy who takes a lot of heat -- particularly here in Boston, where many people seem to think he has an anti-Red Sox agenda. While I've never felt that way, I believe......
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9:16 AM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
NEW YORK (AP) - The Yankees are cutting the prices of some of their most expensive season tickets for 2010. The price of the best field-level seats will drop from $325 to $250 or $235 as part of season plans,......
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11:08 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
With a monster line drive over the centerfield wall tonight, David Ortiz passed Frank Thomas to take over the all-time lead for home runs from the designated hitter's position. Ortiz' 270th home run, his 24th of the season, gave him......
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10:57 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
NEW YORK (AP) - Jorge Posada and Toronto reliever Jesse Carlson got into a fight near home plate, leading to a frenzied, bench-clearing brawl between the Yankees and Blue Jays in the eighth inning. Toronto's Edwin Encarnacion and All-Star second......
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10:04 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
Daisuke Matsuzaka walked off the mound at Fenway looking almost bashful, which was odd considering what he had just done. Pitching for the first time in three months, Matsuzaka had just shut down a lineup chock full of .300 hitters.......
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7:24 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ Legendary Boston Bruins broadcaster Fred Cusick passed away on Tuesday. He was 90. To honor Cusick's career with the Bruins, the Red Sox held a moment of silence prior to their game against the Angels at Fenway......
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4:57 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Journal Sports Writer BOSTON _ The last thing Tim Wakefield wants is a repeat of 2007. Prior to the Red Sox hosting the Rockies in Game One of the World Series that season at Fenway Park, the......
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4:28 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ Red Sox manager Terry Francona has finalized his starting rotation for the end of the week. Clay Buchholz will start on Friday in Baltimore followed by Jon Lester on Saturday. Lester will start on an extra day......
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4:19 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Red Sox outfield prospect Zach Daeges will have surgery Friday to remove a problematic bone in his ankle, with the expectation that Daeges will be fully healthy in time for Spring Training 2010. Daeges, 25, came into the season as......
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4:11 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis is not in the lineup tonight due to back spasms. He was examined at Massachusetts General Hospital on Monday and is okay, according to manager Terry Francona. "He had a tough......
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2:47 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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BOSTON Ellsbury, cf Pedroia, 2b Drew, rf Bay, lf Ortiz, dh Lowell, 3b Kotchman, 1b Varitek, c Gonzalez, ss Matsuzaka, sp LOS ANGELES Figgins, 3b Izturis, 2b Abreu, rf Guerrero, dh Hunter, cf Morales, 1b Rivera, lf Aybar, ss......
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1:24 PM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Yankees will open and close the 2010 season against the Red Sox at Fenway Park, just the fifth time in 50 years the rivals both start and finish against each other. Most openers are set......
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9:00 AM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Beginning at noon, fans can register on redsox.com for the opportunity to buy tickets for playoff games at Fenway Park -- even though the team is a ways away from guaranteeing that any games will be played in Boston at......
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10:43 AM Mon, Sep 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
The disastrous 2009 Mets season will officially end without a playoff berth, and the man who made it happen was none other than Pedro Martinez, a man who symbolizes the bad judgment of this cash-rich, common-sense-poor organization. The Mets, of......
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9:09 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
With what was essentially a long pop up in the eighth inning, Jason Bay laid claim to a great honor: shortest Red Sox home run of the year. With what appeared to be a 302-foot home run just past......
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8:01 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
A September weekend like this can make you feel pretty good about your pitching staff. The Red Sox rode their surging top three starters to a weekend sweep of Tampa Bay, a knockout blow to Tampa that should keep the......
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6:00 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ Josh Reddick doesn't have to do too much more to impress the Red Sox. The 22-year-old outfield prospect is getting an opportunity to showcase his skills a bit more this month as a September callup. He started......
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4:27 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ Prior to Clay Buchholz's solid performance against the Rays on Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park, a report surfaced out of Toronto that he was one of six pitching prospects that the organization offered to the Blue Jays......
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2:44 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Journal Sports Writer BOSTON _ Can't get much cleaner than this one. The Boston Red Sox effectively and efficiently produced in every aspect of the game for a 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in the......
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2:30 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _Dustin Pedroia just gave the Red Sox a 3-1 advantage in the bottom of the eighth inning when he hit a two-run homer off Rays starter Matt Garza. It was the first time the 5-foot-7, 170-pounder has hit......
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1:47 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ The Red Sox finally figured out Rays starter Matt Garza. In the midst of a pitchers' duel and the game knotted at zero to start the bottom of the sixth inning, the Red Sox' Dustin Pedroia hit......
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1:28 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ Umpires are always the bad guys. It seems like players, managers and fans are always giving the men in black a hard time for not making the right call. Truth be told, umpires are very well respected......
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1:13 PM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Journal Sports Writer BOSTON _ It was a tough season for Pawtucket Red Sox manager Ron Johnson. The PawSox ended their season with a 61-82 and lost 46 of their last 65 games to finish 21 games......
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11:19 AM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ Because of the quick turnaround, Red Sox manager Terry Francona thought it best to stay overnight at Fenway Park after the club's 9-1 rain-shortened victory over the Rays Friday night. Even though the teams only played five......
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11:00 AM Sun, Sep 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
TAMPA Bartlett, ss Crawford, lf Longoria, 3b Zobrist, cf Burrell, dh Iwamura, 2b Zaun, c Gross, rf Richard, 1b Garza, sp BOSTON Ellsbury, cf Pedroia, 2b Martinez, c Youkilis, 3b Bay, dh Kotchman, 1b Baldelli, rf Reddick, lf Green, ss......
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