Pitchers Andrew Miller and Alfredo Aceves held Kansas City to just four hits in a 7-1 victory, Boston's second straight in Kansas City. Miller pitched 5.1 innings and allowed three hits and one run. Alfredo Aceves allowed just one hit in 3.2 innings of work. Jarrod Saltalamacchia homered in the fifth to give Boston a 5-1 lead.
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U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton declared a mistrial Thursday in Roger Clemens' perjury trial. A hearing was set for September 2 to determine if there will be a new trial. The judge declared a mistrial after prosecutors presented inadmissable evidence to the jurors. Specifically, jurors heard the text of Laura Pettitte's affidavit to Congress after Judge Walton ruled against allowing it into the trial. Walton said this evidence made a fair trial for Clemens with this jury "very difficult if not impossible." Clemens is accused of lying to Congress about his alleged steroid use. [Globe]
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Baltimore's two-game winning streak turned out to be no match for Jon Lester's career-long winning streak against the Orioles last night. Lester improved to 14-0 in 17 career starts against the Orioles with eight strong innings in a 6-2 win. Lester (3-1) yielded two runs on four hits, walked three and struck out five.
Roger Clemens pleaded not guilty to six counts related to his testimony at a congressional hearing in February 2008. Clemens allegedly lied to Congress 15 different times under oath, and faces "three counts of making false statements, two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of Congress." Clemens denied taking steroids or HGH. Clemens was indicted on August 19.
Bostonist was tempted to write just those three words this morning because what can anyone say about Friday night's, uhhh, performance, we guess, by the Red Sox that doesn't involve profanity? Probably nothing.
Roger Clemens has been indicted on perjury charges. The New York Times first reported the indictment. He faces up to 30 years in jail.
The New York Times is reporting that Roger Clemens will be indicted for perjury because he allegedly made false statements to Congress while he testified about using performance-enhancing drugs in 2008.
The Red Sox rotation is going through a little upheaval right now. But not Josh Beckett. This guy's job isn't going anywhere.
There's a new reason for us to hate Roger Clemens. Indirectly. Baseball legends Clemens, Reggie Jackson, Joe Morgan and Pete Rose were treated to plane rides, strippers and hookers, among other things, from a "friend" named Kenneth Jowdy. Unfortunately, Jowdy paid for the plane rides, strippers and hookers using money 19 current or former NHLers invested with him in a golf resort that was never built. Oops! Five of the NHL veterans, who are now suing Jowdy, played for the Bruins. Sergei Gonchar, Glen Murray, Bryan Berard, Dmitri Khristich and Jozef Stumpel all spent time in Boston and lost between $250,000 and $500,000. Morgan, already not popular with the Nation, denies involvement.
Unfortunately, when a knuckleballer is your most reliable starter, there are going to be days of disappointment. Last night was one of those nights.
Do you have a question for the red-ass Rocket, former Red Sox and more recent Red Sox nemesis and alleged PED poster boy Roger Clemens? Mosey over to our colleagues at Houstonist and leave your question in the comments. Clemens promises that he'll get back to you. This is not a joke (we think).
Some thought the road to the Celtics' 17th title was going to be a cake walk. But if the sports fans in Boston know anything, they know that it’s never that easy. The Celtics dropped another game last night to the Atlanta Hawks 97-92, tying the series at two games a piece.
The Boston Phoenix's annual "Unsexiest Men" issue is one of their big events. Ever since they picked Gilbert Gottfried for the top of the list three years ago, they've earned national mentions for their audacity to call out guys for their ugly mugs. But the issue came out one week ago, and it was unsatisfying.
It looks like it's going to be an easy season for Red Sox beat writers. It looks like all they'll have to do is set up a microphone within half a mile of Jonathan Papelbon, and he'll come a-runnin' with enough material to fill a dozen Notes columns. More, if they can be padded out with 40-year-old rock lyrics (hi, Dan!).
The All-Star Break couldn't have come at a better time for the Celtics. It's a few extra days of rest for KG, of course, but after last night, almost everyone over 6'8" is in agony this morning and needs some time off. Brian Scalabrine fled the court with a groin pull very early, then Glen Davis went down VERY hard in the second half. He was in so much visible pain that they didn't immediately kick it to the dancing idiots on the Jumbotron. What happened to him is being called a "strained left quadriceps".
Look outside the window. Grimace. Then realize that somewhere, in a magical land known as Florida, spring is only one day away. Pitchers and Catchers Day is almost here, which means that spring is creeping closer to our frozen city. Ballplayers will be ready to welcome in the season when they finally get back to Fenway. The journey just happens to take them to Florida, Japan, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Toronto before spring finally reaches us. Why do we live in New England again?
It was the rarest of rare occasions: a Beanpot final that didn't involve BU. Instead it was Boston College and Harvard, with the Eagles leading by two midway through the third period. BC almost blew it before taking control in overtime and winning on a Nick Petrecki goal. So two overtime wins for Boston College. And a very relieved Jerry York. BU beat Northeastern in the consolation game.
Tim Duncan and the city of Boston have had an interesting relationship over the years. It looked like the big guy would be coming here as a reward for the dismal 1997 Celtics season; Rick Pitino [make evil eye sign, spit on ground] even took the C's coaching job assuming that he'd get to coach Tim. As we all know, the Spurs' tank-job paid off, Duncan went to San Antonio, and Pitino stayed. Just to rub salt in the wounds, Duncan and the Spurs came to Boston every year, and beat the Celtics here every year.
The good news for the Celtics is that the Timberwolf portion of their schedule is in the history books. After surviving a 1-point game against Minnesota at home a couple of weeks ago, the C's went to the Twin Cities and pulled out a 2-point win.
The Chargers sputtered for a while yesterday, but finally turned it on enough to beat Tennessee and ensure that the Jacksonville Jaguars will be the next team to come into Foxboro and try to spoil the Pats' Date With Destiny.
There are plenty of reasons to like Doc Rivers right now. Twenty-eight reasons, actually. But we wish we could kindly remind Rivers and the Celtics that you have to focus on winning the little games in order for the big games to mean anything.
Maybe some voters in Iowa had a tough decision to make; not so the AP NFL Coach of the Year voters, who swept Bill Belichick into the award with 29 out of 50 possible first-place votes. The other 21, we're sure, were dismayed by Spygate (why else vote against a guy whose team didn't lose?), figuring that any coach who had footage of 20 minutes of Jetball had an unfair advantage. Bill, we're sure, took the award, nodded grimly, and went back to work.
One of the most remarkable things about the Celtics' remarkable turnaround is that NBA players actually want to come here. You may remember the lure of playing in Boston almost got Reggie Miller off his couch, and now there's talk that future Hall-of-Famer Gary Payton called his agent the other night and said he'd like to come to Boston.
Roger Clemens is an unhappy man today. At least, his lawyer is. Attorney Rusty Hardin responded to Roger's prominence in the Mitchell Report by saying, "He is left with no meaningful way to combat what he strongly contends are false allegations." We remember something in the report about Mitchell requesting an interview with Clemens and being turned down. Perhaps that was a mistake.
Unofficial leaked lists started hitting the Internet late this morning. Fearful and optimistic at the same time, we started scanning them to see who was allegedly going to be on the MLB Steroid Commission's "Naughty" list.
Well...that was a little scarier than it had to be, wasn't it? While Curt Schilling was completely dominating and mastering the Angels lineup, the Red Sox lineup took their sweet time getting around to dominating the game. So for a game that ended 9-1, there was an awful lot of fingernail chewing and knuckle whitening. The Sox did take the lead, insurmountable as it turned out, in the fourth, when Papi and Manny went deep...
In the bid to make 2007 the first season when all four LDS's were sweeps, the National League took care of business yesterday. The Rockies bid adieu to Philly, while the Diamondbacks went to Wrigley and broke Cub fans' hearts for the 99th straight season. Which, if you're a Red Sox fan, at least means that when we win the World Series, at least we won't do it on the back of long-suffering Philly or...
No lead is safe against the Yankees. In case 100 years of bitter history hadn't taught you that, the fiasco on Friday night illustrated the need to jump on them, as soon as possible, and stay there. These guys have more lives than horror-movie villains. The Sox apparently remembered that lesson sometime between Friday night and Saturday afternoon, as they used a Josh Beckett masterpiece and a barrage of timely hitting to rout the Yanks,...