Fourteen games remain in 2011 regular season and the Red Sox lead the Tampa Bay Rays, in town for four games, by four in the A.L. Wild Card race after a 5-4 loss to Toronto last night. If you thought Tuesday's rout of the Blue Jays ended their September skid, well think again. Yesterday, the Bruins finally signed Brad Marchand, the pesky rookie who developed into legit goal-scoring in the team's Cup-winning playoff run, to a two-year, $5 million contract.
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Back-to-back home runs from Asdrubal Cabrera and Travis Hafner in the sixth put Cleveland ahead for good en route to a 9-6 victory over the Red Sox (66-41) last night. After a series of good starts, John Lackey reverted to his bad form with 6.2 innings of work in which he allowed five runs on eight hits. Daniel Bard (1-5) was ineffective, got just one out, and allowed three runs, two hits and a home run. Bard hadn't allowed a run in 26.1 innings, the longest such streak in baseball in 2011.
Nathan Horton's second overtime goal in three games enabled the Boston Bruins to eliminate the Montreal Canadiens by a 4-3 score in game seven. Boston faces the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Allowing 60 points in the first half is usually a good way to lose a game and last night was no different as the Clippers cruised to a 60-43 lead at the half and escaped with a 108-103 win at the TD Garden. Even 61 points in the second half wasn't enough as the Celtics fell to 27-6 at the Garden. Gary Tanguay said on CSN that every home loss has been to a western conference team.
Let's try be positive. After four games in 2010, the Red Sox starters haven't lost a game. Joe West is happy tonight. We tried.
For the third consecutive game, the Sox bullpen failed to hold a lead, and the club lost a 4-3 decision. Daniel Bard allowed a two-run single to Rick Ankiel, who advanced to second on the throw, in the 8th inning to put the Royals ahead for good at 4-3. Ankiel killed the Sox with a 4-4, three RBI effort.
Tim Wakefield began his 16th season with the Boston Red Sox on the mound in Kansas City. He shut the Royals out through five innings and completed seven innings of work by allowing two runs on six hits with six strikeouts. Wakefield checked almost every Royals batter except Ankiel and his 3-3 effort against the knuckleballer.
Well, not us as in Bostonist and its beloved readers. But the Angels hate coming here once the first fall wind blows. They can barely win a playoff game here to save their lives, and lost their second straight at Fenway with a sour taste in their mouths.
Bostonist has obtained a picture of the 2009 Red Sox just before they embarked on their make-or-break week playing their top AL East rivals. If it looks like Sonny Corleone seconds before he was perforated by Barzini's men, it's not a coincidence.
Yahoo! Sports reports the Red Sox offered pitchers Clay Buchholz and Michael Bowden and outfielder Ryan Westmoreland to Toronto for Roy Halladay. According the the report, the Sox offered "at least" those three prospects. Gordon Edes of Yahoo! Sports said Daniel Bard and Casey Kelly are "off-limits" to trades. The Globe reported the Yahoo! report. According to ESPN's TV bottom ticker thingie - technical term - Peter Gammons says this deal is unlikely as the Sox want to keep Westmoreland.
Baseball can be an exciting, intense and creative enterprise. You wouldn't notice that after Saturday's run-filled spectacle that featured 10 pitchers, 14 walks, four errors, 24 runs and one torrential downpour en route to a 15-9 Red Sox win. Boston's powerful offense was on display, too. The Sox scored runs in the first four innings, including three, each, in the first two innings to build a 9-0 lead. Boston had three runs in four different innings.
A day after beating the Phillies 11-6, the Red Sox found themselves on the wrong end of that same score yesterday. That doesn't happen every weekend.
Unfortunately, when a knuckleballer is your most reliable starter, there are going to be days of disappointment. Last night was one of those nights.
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