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smokeyboy found this 3 years ago on www.boston.com
| | The Red Sox had attempted only one stolen base in the last 13 games against the Yankees.
We understand that Jacoby Ellsbury isn’t with the team to provide that dimension, but the Sox have become statues, unable to make anything happen. In Saturday night’s 7-6 loss to the Tigers, Dontrelle Willis walked seven and was timed at 2.18 seconds to the plate on a couple of pitches,...
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Victor Martinez busts out
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smokeyboy found this 3 years ago on www.bostonherald.com
| | CC Sabathia has been friends with Red Sox catcher Victor Martinez for 11 years, since they were teammates in the minors, and he never has known Martinez to lack confidence at the plate.
“He never really struggles,” Sabathia, the Yankees’ ace lefty, said yesterday. “I know he’s struggled lately, but it’s early. He’s going to hit. He always...
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Pedroia sits out with sore knee
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smokeyboy found this 3 years ago on sports.espn.go.com
| | Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia missed Sunday's series finale with Detroit due to a minor knee injury, but said he'll be back in the lineup Monday in New York.
"I'm playing tomorrow," he said after the 5-1 loss to Detroit. "I wanted to be out there today, but Tito [manager Terry Francona] had different ideas."
Francona scratched Pedroia from the...
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Starting pitching has Red Sox primed...
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smokeyboy found this 3 years ago on mlb.mlb.com
| | Entering their third rivalry series of the season, which starts on Monday night at Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox still haven't gone on the extended run they've been striving for. But there's one subtle sign that says it might be on the way.
Finally, the Red Sox are producing one solid start after another, save for John Lackey's mediocre start (seven innings, nine hits, five runs)...
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Stumbling in mediocrity
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smokeyboy found this 3 years ago on www.bostonherald.com
| | Sure, the Red Sox have been playing better lately. That still doesn’t mean they deserve to be called a good team.
We’re into the middle of May now, and the Red Sox still are a .500 team.
Faced with an opportunity to head to Yankee Stadium with a series win here yesterday, the Red Sox offense was as lackluster as starter John Lackey, managing one run and seven hits in a...
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It’s another Detroit breakdown for...
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smokeyboy found this 3 years ago on www.boston.com
| | Baseball players like to say that one of the best things about their sport is that there is almost always a game the next day, an opportunity to atone for mistakes and start over again fresh.
But the Red Sox yesterday played like a team still recovering from a 12-inning loss against the Detroit Tigers the night before.
There was a collective lack of energy and...
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No arguing it’s been one-sided lately
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smokeyboy found this 3 years ago on www.boston.com
| | The rivalry between the Red Sox and the Yankees, while historic, hasn’t been particularly compelling lately.
The Red Sox have lost 13 of their last 16 games against the Yankees, including four of six this season. The Yankees have outscored the Sox, 43-29, this season.
“They’ve been whipping our butts,’’ said David Ortiz. “We need to change...
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Portice taking to the bullpen
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smokeyboy found this 3 years ago on www.boston.com
| | Eammon Portice will turn 25 next month, a little old for a prospect, and the Red Sox are trying to determine where the righthander best fits into their plans. The answer appears to be the bullpen.
Portice was used almost exclusively as a starter for three seasons after the Sox took him in the 12th round of the 2007 draft out of High Point University in North Carolina.
He led the...
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Mixing it up works for Papelbon
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smokeyboy found this 3 years ago on www.capecodonline.com
| | Jonathan Papelbon earned the save in the Red Sox 7-6 victory over the Blue Jays on Monday night, getting the final three outs on three different pitches.
Fastball, slider, splitter, game over.
For a closer who, when criticized at all last season, was questioned for his reliance on his fastball, he's certainly diversified his repertoire thus far this season.
“He's...
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Game 35: Red Sox Nipped By Blue Jays,...
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WWW.SOX1FAN.COM found this 3 years ago on www.sox1fan.com
| | When you have a team with this much talent, you have to wonder why they are struggling to stay above the .500 mark (the Red Sox currently have a record of 18-17) and, frankly, the only thing I have been able to come up with is that there is a pervasive sense of entitlement and unhappiness within the Red Sox clubhouse.
There is no arguing the fact that Wakefield pitched well yesterday. I...
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