CC Sabathia (18-7) beat the Red Sox for the first time in 2011 in a 5-2 decision on Tuesday. The Yankees now trail the Sox by .5 in the East. The Sox had plenty of chances to score with 10 hits off Sabathia during his six innings. They left, however, 16 runners on base on the night.
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A suddenly depleted Red Sox lineup, without David Ortiz and Kevin Youkilis took on Kansas City. Fortunately, they have Dustin Pedroia to bat clean up. Pedroia finished with three hits and three RBI in a 4-3 victory. His RBI single in the fifth inning was the winning hit. Josh Beckett (10-5) threw seven strong innings, allowing seven hits and and three runs. Daniel Bard pitched a scoreless eighth. Jonathan Paplebon earned his 29th save. Jason Varitek also had an RBI.
The Red Sox lost their first series since June thanks to a 5-3 loss in Seattle on Sunday to the Mariners. The Sox dropped two games and split their road trip 3-3. The Sox won or tied 11 straight series while posting a 26-10 record. Seattle struck for three runs in the third inning, took a 3-0 lead, and never looked back. That was the only bad inning of the eight Tim Wakefield (6-5) pitched. His complete game effort included five runs, four earned, on nine hits. Seattle's Charlie Furbush threw seven innings and limited the Red Sox to one run on four hits. Kevin Youkilis homered in the eighth inning with Dustin Pedroia to make the score 5-3. Adrian Gonzalez had two hits. Jed Lowrie had an RBI on a sacrifice fly in the fourth.
Despite beginning the 2011 season with six straight losses, the Boston Red Sox reached the All-Star break with the best record in the American League, 55-35, after a six-game winning streak to end the first half. On Sunday, the Red Sox completed a four-game sweep over the Orioles with an 8-6 victory.
John Lackey (6-8) pitched his best game of 2011, going 6.2 innings without allowing a run as the Red Sox blanked the Orioles, 4-0. Lackey's strong outing was crucial as the Red Sox offense mustered a pedestrian four runs after scoring 20 runs in two games. He allowed just three hits and one walk against seven strikeouts. His ERA dropped to 6.84 from 7.47. The Sox have won five straight games and are 9-1 in the last 10 games.
The Red Sox scored eight runs in the first inning on Friday and routed the Orioles by a 10-3 score, the team's second straight one-sided victory over Baltimore. Boston has outscored Baltimore 20-7 in the first two games of the four-game series. After being pounded for 20 runs in 16 innings, both benches emptied twice during an eighth-inning David Ortiz at-bat as Kevin Gregg repeatedly threw inside on Ortiz. He headed towards the mound after two tight pitches causing both benches to empty. Gregg got Ortiz to pop out, yelled at him and had to fight off a few haymakers as Ortiz charged the mound. After the field was cleared, Gregg, Ortiz, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, and Baltimore reliever Jim Johnson were ejected.
Adrian Gonzalez returns to the lineup tonight for the Red Sox against the Orioles. Gonzalez got a well-deserved game off against Toronto on Wednesday, a game won by the Sox by a 6-4 score. They should beat the Blue Jays without him.
Josh Beckett (7-3) proved why he's headed to Phoenix next week for the 2011 All-Star Game with an overpowering, eight-inning effort on Sunday in Houston, won by Boston, 2-1. Beckett, named to the A.L. All-Star team before yesterday's game, pitched eight innings and allowed one run on five hits. He had a season-best 11 strikeouts and no walks. Jonathan Paplebon had his 17th save.
Two of the best teams in baseball, the Red Sox and the Phillies, meet today to begin a three-game series that some consider a World Series preview. Some members of the Red Sox, at least, aren't even thinking about October. “I don’t lose any sleep thinking about the Phillies,’’ Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis said.
San Diego's Anthony Rizzo, one of the Red Sox (44-29) prospects traded to the Padres for first baseman Adrian Gonzalez in the offseason, drove in the eventual winning run in a 5-4 decision over the Sox. The win ends a six-game losing streak for San Diego and is just Boston's fourth loss this month. Rizzo plated the run on a ground-out to Gonzalez. Gonzalez tied the game at 4-4 with an RBI-single, his MLB-best 68th RBI, in the sixth inning. Kevin Youkilis had four hits and Jacoby Ellsbury, Marco Scutaro, and Josh Reddick each had two hits. Alfredo Aceves started in place of Josh Beckett and finished with a no decision. Aceves allowed four runs on four hits and six walks. He walked five consecutive batters in the second inning. Dan Wheeler took the loss after allowing a run on two hits in 1.1 innings.
A weekend dedicated to honoring the Bruins' first Stanley Cup in 39 years ended with the Boston Red Sox resounding 12-3 rout over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday. The Sox joined in the city-wide celebration by welcoming the Bruins, the Stanley Cup and the duck boats to Fenway Park for a pre-game homage to the champs.
Josh Beckett completely dominated the Tampa Bay Rays last night allowing one hit in a stellar, nine-inning shutout performance, won by the Red Sox, 3-0, for the club's first win against the Rays this season. Too bad Bostonist was, uhhh, too occupied with something else to watch. Sorry, Josh. Really. Beckett (6-2) allowed a single to Ross Brignac wth two outs in the third. He retired each of the next 19 batters he faced. He had six strikeouts on an economical 97 pitches. Beckett's ERA is now 1.86.
Tim Wakefield gave the Red Sox (25-21) more than could have been expected by allowing one run and four hits in 6.2 innings in Sunday's 5-1 win over the Cubs. Boston won two out of three from Chicago and is now on an 8-1 streak.
The middle of the Red Sox lineup led the way as the Chicago Cubs were rudely welcomed back to Fenway Park after 93 years and received a 15-5 beating on the first day of inter-league play. Adrian Gonzalez, Kevin Youkilis, and David Ortiz combined to bat 9-16 with seven RBI for Boston, now 24-20 and a half game out of first place. The Sox nine produced 19 hits.
After 40 games, the Red Sox reached the .500 mark, 20-20, by completing a sweep of the Yankees with a 7-5 Sunday night victory.
All of a sudden, the 2011 Boston Red Sox have found themselves to be capable of winning baseball games. After an 11th-inning, RBI double from Adrian Gonzalez powered the Sox to a 4-2 win over the L.A. Angels, the team has now won five of their last six games.
Milan Lucic's homecoming game exceeded expectations as he scored the game-winning goal in a 3-1 decision over Vancouver. The Canucks led 1-0 before goals by Nathan Horton, Lucic and Patrice Bergeron turned the game in the Bruins favor. Tim Thomas had 27 saves.
The Red Sox gave all of us some good news during the first day of spring training workouts. Larry Lucchino said Fenway Park has another 40-50 years left after 10 years of improvements. Bringing newly-acquired Liverpool in for a match will probably trim 10 years off of that. The ownership trio of John Henry, Tom Werner and Lucchino got a standing ovation from the players.
Brad Pitt honored the Hub with his presence on Tuesday to film scenes for , the baseball movie based on a book by the same name. Pitt was in and around Fenway Park playing Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s GM, who brought a more statistical approach to picking players to his job. Kevin Youkilis and former Sox player Scott Hatteberg are prominently mentioned in the book. The Globe reported last week that Pitt would be filming a scene with an actor playing Sox owner John Henry. [Inside Track]
"It really stinks...It was a freak accident. I don't know how it happened or the reason behind it. It just happened." That's Kevin Youkilis, who as it happened was talking about the freak thumb injury that he just can't play through anymore, and which will shelve him for the rest of the season. Though he could be talking about the mummy curse or Tiki idol or whatever bad mojo landed on this team to the point that we're wondering what the record for man-games lost in a season is and how we'd even figure that out. Statheads, where are you when we need you?
Kevin Youkilis is out for the season. His torn thumb muscle will require season-ending surgery on Friday. Youkilis went on the 15-day disabled list on Tuesday after injuring his right thumb on Monday. [WCVB]
Felix Doubront? Niuman Romero? Mitchell Friedman*?! These are now the 2010 Red Sox, and 25-year-old Niuman Romero became the latest man on the spot when Kevin Youkilis left last night's game early with ankle pain. (He's OK! Really! He says so.) That meant the rookie had to bat in Youk's cleanup spot for the rest of the game, which meant Tampa Bay could and would walk David Ortiz with abandon, challenging the kid to deliver the big hit.
Bostonist finds itself on John Kerry's e-mail list. Usually, when Senator Kerry "writes" to us it's for money, and we delete it. Today, Kerry's missive asked us to vote Kevin Youkilis into the All-Star game in Anaheim. Here's a sample:
Dear Red Sox:
You understand, right? You've lived here and worked here far too long to be surprised about how fickle Boston is. And you have to understand how easy and how much fun making "fun prevention" jokes was. So you had to know that once you started playing up to your potential and looking like a team that just might compete this summer, we'd come around. Even if a small but loud part of us was hoping for a stinker of a year that would clear the decks of the bandwagon and let the little guy have a chance at tickets next year. We'll take this too.
And so does Youk. But we'll get to him.
The Bruins were down 2-0. In the long-ago regular season, that meant you could grab the shovel out of the closet and start digging right then and there. But the playoff Bruins are a completely different entity, and when they started the third period in a two-goal hole, they nodded grimly and went to work.
Yes, the Bruins managed to achieve this modest goal yesterday, treating their fans to an actual win. A win that really matters, even, since the 2-1 decision over the Rangers pushed New York down to five points out of the playoffs and helped the B's keep a one-point lead over the hot Thrashers for that final spot.
Another sizable half-court lead....another third quarter stinkbomb. Such are the ways of the Celtics in this young 2010. In this case, it was another total offensive breakdown and a pretty intense lack of defense that turned a 55-43 halftime lead into a 93-85 final score.
Boston team's lost two games on Friday that both could have been won. Each team led early and then fell behind before losing in the end. Philadelphia stopped the Celtics' 11-game winning streak with a 98-97 decision. The Bruins lost to the Chicago Blackhawks, 5-4, in a shootout.
"Whatever the hex is, I guess somebody un-hexed it," said the Angels' Chone Figgins. We're not sure what that hex may be, or if it's really gone, but last night, the Angels looked like hex-free division winners. And the Red Sox looked like a team that staggered into the playoffs, mustering no offense and succumbing meekly to Anaheimorwhatever 5-0.