Blogged on Jul 14, 2008Last weekend the Boston Red Sox trailed the Tampa Bay Rays by 5 games in the AL East standings. After Sunday’s 2-1 victory of the Baltimore Orioles, the Sox find themselves with half a game lead over the Rays heading into the 2008 All-Star break.
Dice-K Matsuzaka pitched six scoreless innings, allowing four hits and five […]
Blogged on Jul 3, 2008The hits just keep on coming, unfortunately just not for the Boston Red Sox. The Tampa Bay Rays finished off a three-game sweep over the reigning World Series Champions with a 7-6 victory Wednesday night at Tropicana Field and in doing so increased their AL East lead to 3 ½ games over the struggling Sox.
“It’s […]
Blogged on Jul 2, 2008For a long time, ‘the Tampa Bay Rays win’ was a phrase that you expected to only hear 60 maybe 70 times a year. Well, the Tampa Bay Rays won again last night beating the Boston Red Sox 3-1 and are on a pace to win a franchise record 100 games. The team that for […]
Blogged on Jul 1, 2008The Boston Red Sox did all that they could to try and pull out a victory Monday night, but the Tampa Bay Rays were able to hang on and capture a 5-4 victory in the first game of three in a series which features the top two teams in the AL East.
Tampa led the game […]
Blogged on Jun 30, 2008This weekend was a tough one for the Red Sox, losing consecutive one-run games to the Houston Astros. On Saturday night the teams had a combined 27 hits for 21 runs, including a wild third inning with 9 two-out runs. Despite the messy start, Sox starter Jon Lester was lined up for the win after […]
Blogged on Jun 6, 2008Right now, the Boston Red Sox have the mentality that before every game they must prepare themselves for battle, and occasionally they even end up fighting. Thursday night benches cleared and tempers flared, yet again, in Boston’s 7-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park. The win was the Red Sox 13th consecutive […]
Blogged on Jun 5, 2008The Boston Red Sox rattled off their 12th straight win at Fenway Park Wednesday night, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 5-1 in front of a sold out crowd of 37,474 fans. Josh Beckett led the way hurling 6 strong innings in which he allowed only 1 run on 7 hits while striking out 5 Rays […]
Blogged on Jun 4, 2008Justin Masterson pitched six solid innings and picked up his 2nd victory on the season as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 7-4 in a match up featuring the top two teams in the American League. The win was Boston’s 11th consecutive victory at Fenway Park, an impressive streak that started on […]
Blogged on May 2, 2008The list of Sox players sidelined with the flu and minor injuries has thankfully gotten slimmer. After losing 3 out of 5 scheduled starting pitchers, 5 days from the captain, and over 15 starts by position players, the Sox have started to shape up.
Continuing the recent trend of great outings by Sox starters, Tim Wakefield […]
Blogged on Apr 1, 2008A week ago the inaugural game for the 2008 season was played in Tokyo, Japan between the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics. While the two teams enjoyed the trip and media hype, the rest of Major League Baseball could only watch and wait for their first regular season games. Well after yesterday, the wait […]
