Blogged on Jul 8, 2008After an awful 3-7 road trip, the Boston Red Sox happily returned home to Fenway Park Monday night and captured a 1-0 victory over the surging Minnesota Twins. The win improves Boston’s home record to 32-10 on the season, the best in the American League.
Manny Ramirez broke a scoreless tie with an RBI single in […]
Blogged on Jul 8, 2008Right-handed hitters are only batting .170 against Sox pitcher Justin Masterson. Mike Timlin, Hideki Okajima, Craig Hansen, and Manny Delcarmen are struggling in the pen. The Sox have 6 healthy starting pitchers.
At this point, moving Justin Masterson to the pen is the next natural step. Four games behind the Rays, the Sox can’t afford to […]
Blogged on Jul 8, 2008On Sunday in Orlando, Michael Beasley made the case for why he should have been picked number one in the NBA draft. Beasley looked confident on the floor; racking up 29 points and 9 rebounds in just 23 minutes of play.
“It’s just basketball, man. Played it in college, high school and middle school,” Beasley said […]
Blogged on Jul 8, 2008Hiroki Kuroda’s first year in the MLB has been a rollercoaster ride. His solid perfomances were generally bookended by abysmal ones. Kuroda’s June started and ended with 6-run, 2.2 inning outings… with a 4-hit complete-game shutout in between.
Kuroda did not seem to be fazed by giving up the hit, his focus was on the score […]
Blogged on Jul 8, 2008Thanks to MVP caliber play from Matt Reis and Shalrie Joseph, the New England Revolution have the top spot in the MLS with 33 points. Six points ahead of the Columbus Crew, the Revolution seem to be heading towards the playoffs again.
Despite a goal from David Beckham, the Revs won their Fourth of July contest […]
Blogged on Jul 7, 2008After the first two games of this weekend’s Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees series, things were looking great for the Boston Red Sox. They’d captured victories on both Thursday night and Friday afternoon against the Bronx Bombers and it finally looked liked their bats were going to come around after an awful series […]
Blogged on Jul 7, 2008Are the Boston Red Sox considering signing Barry Bonds? Depends on who you ask. Some say Bonds already had a secret tryout for the team in response to losing slugger David Ortiz to injury. While the move would certainly make baseball sense for the Sox, many are speculating that the fan backlash may be too […]
Blogged on Jul 7, 2008The rosters for the 2008 All-Star Game have been released. The Red Sox, Yankees, and Cubs are well represented among the starters. Both the Angels and the Cubs each send two starting pitchers and their closer. The Last man ballot, as well as the managers’ choices for starting pitchers are not available yet.
Blogged on Jul 7, 2008Arthur Rhodes woke up with a sore arm. Brandon Morrow pitched four out of the last five days. Carlos Silva threw a side session on Sunday. R.A. Dickey threw over 100 pitches in his last start. With no one left in the bullpen, who would the Mariners pitch in the 15th inning of a 1-1 […]
Blogged on Jul 7, 2008John McEnroe called Rafael Nadal’s victory over Roger Federer on Sunday the greatest match he had ever seen. Nadal became the first person to win the French Open-Wimbledon double since Bjorn Borg in 1980. The 4 hour 48 minute marathon included three rain delays, and ended just before dusk.
Nadal won his first ever match on […]
