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October 11, 2009 - October 17, 2009 Archives
1:11 PM Fri, Oct 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver  Email
Ronan Tynan won't be belting out "God Bless America'' during the seventh-inning stretch of tonight's Yanks-Angels playoff game at Yankee Stadium. It seems the Irish tenor made an anti-Semitic "joke'' to a Jewish doctor who was looking at an apartment......
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3:56 PM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Sean McAdam of the Boston Herald reports that, according to multiple baseball executives and scouts, the Red Sox are likely to pursue starting pitcher Rich Harden, a pitcher with great ability who has had a ton of injury problems in......
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2:56 PM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports reports that Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, the former Boston real-estate mogul who made an unsuccessful bid to purchase the Red Sox earlier this decade, is in divorce proceedings with his wife, Jamie, the team's CEO,......
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1:46 PM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
So you're a Red Sox and Patriots fan and you think your life is falling apart after Sunday's debacles? Well, it could be worse. You could be Stephen Krupin of Arlington, Va. Krupin shares Washington Nationals season tickets. He went......
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9:41 AM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
TOKYO (AP) -- The Boston Red Sox are among several major league teams lining up to woo Japanese high school pitcher Yusei Kikuchi. The 18-year-old lefthander, who throws a fastball that has been clocked as high as 96 mph, is......
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9:15 AM Thu, Oct 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Pedro Martinez had been scheduled to make his first postseason start in five years last weekend. But Martinez's start was postponed due to bad weather in Denver, and then the Phillies decided to pass over him entirely because of concerns......
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9:26 AM Wed, Oct 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Today is a sunny and pleasant day down in The Bronx, and it's a shame that the Yankees and the Angels can't just go ahead and get on with their American League Championship Series. Because Friday night, when the series......
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8:08 AM Wed, Oct 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Here is a gallery of photos from Rocco Baldelli's 2009 season, from the news conference to announce his signing, to the Fenway home debut, to the rehab stints in Pawtucket and everything in between. Images: are from Journal and AP......
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2:38 PM Tue, Oct 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Bean Stringfellow, the agent for Red Sox relief pitcher Billy Wagner, says that his client has given him no indication that he wants to retire and says that comments made by Wagner and reported in the New York Post were......
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2:13 PM Tue, Oct 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire woman charged with second-degree murder in a fatal crash that followed an argument over the Yankees and Red Sox says her statements to police were coerced and can't be used as evidence. Forty-four-year-old......
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10:13 AM Tue, Oct 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
In a rather terse interview with The New York Post, Red Sox reliever Billy Wagner indicated that he's thinking retirement. Of course, in the wake of Sunday's late-inning debacle against the Angels, who knows what is going through Wagner's mind?......
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7:28 PM Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ From a personal standpoint, Jed Lowrie can take a deep breath that the season is over. From a team standpoint, he's clearly disappointed the Red Sox' season ended on Sunday after being swept by the Angels in......
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7:08 PM Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ It's becoming the norm during the offseason for members of Terry Francona's coaching staff become candidates for vacant managerial jobs with other clubs. The Red Sox' season just ended on Sunday afternoon and already bench coach Brad......
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6:56 PM Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mark Divver Email
By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer A botched call in the corner. A phantom foul ball at home plate. Big misses on the bases. Umpires are getting an awful lot of attention in these playoffs, and that's never a good......
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6:48 PM Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
By Joe McDonald Journal Sports Writer BOSTON _While the Yankees and Angels have a date to find out who will reign supreme in the American League in 2009, the Red Sox packed their bags Monday and are already focusing on......
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5:57 PM Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
The forgotten man in these playoffs was once the talk of the town, and of two countries' baseball worlds: Daisuke Matsuzaka. Matsuzaka never got a chance to pitch in the postseason, and if the Red Sox had gone to Game......
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5:27 PM Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
Lost in the tragic nature of the Red Sox season-ending collapse Sunday was the excellent job Clay Buchholz did on the mound, despite the nervousness he felt making his first postseason start under such harrying circumstances. Buchholz gave up two......
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1:31 PM Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
Jason Varitek, the captain of the Red Sox and, until the arrival of Victor Martinez, their No. 1 catcher, didn't play at all in Boston's dismal ALDS sweep at the hands of the Halos from Anaheim. Which shouldn't be......
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1:13 PM Mon, Oct 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
DENVER -- I didn't go from Invesco Field to Coors Field after Sunday's Patriots game, although, even after detailing the demise of the Pats at the hands of wunderkind coach Josh McDaniels' Broncos, I still could have arrived in......
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6:11 PM Sun, Oct 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
By Joe McDonald Journal Sports Writer BOSTON _ Jason Bay said he wanted to go home and relax for a night before thinking about his future with the Boston Red Sox. The left fielder will become a free agent this......
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5:31 PM Sun, Oct 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON -- When the Angels' Erick Aybar slapped a single up the middle to start a two-out, ninth-inning rally against the Red Sox and closer Jonathan Papelbon, the ball barely skipped past shortstop Alex Gonzalez and second baseman Dustin......
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5:03 PM Sun, Oct 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield will have surgery this week on his back to repair a herniated disk. The veteran knuckleballer was kept off the ALDS roster due to the pain and discomfort in his back and......
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3:56 PM Sun, Oct 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON -- The Red Sox season is over . . . in an almost unheard-of fashion. After getting the first two outs in the ninth inning, Jonathan Papelbon -- who was one strike away from victory on no fewer than......
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1:10 PM Sun, Oct 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ Jacoby Ellsbury's catch woke up the slumbering crowd at Fenway Park with a dramatic diving catch in the top of the third inning. With one out, the Angels' Bobby Abreu lifted a broken bat fly ball to......
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12:16 PM Sun, Oct 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ Fenway Park is strangely quiet here in the top of the first inning. Red Sox and their fans know what is at stake. It just seems weird, like a church-like atmosphere. Once the Sox come to bat......
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11:59 AM Sun, Oct 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ Former Red Sox slugger Dave Henderson threw out the ceremonial first pitch this afternoon. Henderson, who played two seasons in Boston in 1986 and 1987, is best remembered for his dramataic home run in Game Five of......
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11:00 AM Sun, Oct 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Joe McDonald Email
BOSTON _ If Red Sox Game Three Starter Clay Buchholz struggles early today, there's a strong possibility you could see Daisuke Matsuzaka on the mound. The Japanese right-hander has been in the bullpen for this series. Manager Terry Francona......
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10:49 AM Sun, Oct 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Dan Barbarisi Email
The sun is baking the field here at Fenway Park, and fans are filing in for today's pivotal 12:07 p.m. game, perhaps the last of the Red Sox season. The Sox turn to Clay Buchholz to keep them alive, while......
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