the joy of sox

Updated! Three shutout innings this afternoon, two hits, one walk, three strikeouts. Very good control with all of his pitches, though he hu...

Mike Petraglia, Redsox.com : [Jon Lester] pitched a perfect first inning in a Spring Training B-game at Hammond Stadium against the Minnesot...

Curt Schilling pitched 3.1 innings Sunday afternoon, allowing one run (a Michael Cuddyer HR) on two hits with a walk and a strikeout. He thr...

Globe : Early morning at the Sox complex was quiet. Julio Lugo displayed a new black T-Shirt which starts off with "Manny being Manny...

Fast on the heels of Michael Silverman's article on Manny Ramirez's workouts, Rob Bradford has posted an even more amazing article ...

2007 starter Jonathan Papelbon made his first spring appearance out of the bullpen. He pitched the 3rd and 4th innings against the Phillies...

Josh Beckett pitched two innings against Northeastern on Thursday, striking out five. Of his 21 pitches, 18 were strikes. He threw a first-...

Rob Bradford's blog is a great source of essential camp information. (Sometimes, after getting an emailed question from a reader, Bradf...

One recent thread at SoSH concerns the media and the frustration many fans feel when they find more attention paid to Manny's hair colo...

MLB.com has audio only -- and I'm at work. If you watched or listened to his outing this evening, and felt like leaving your observatio...

From Tuesday's New York Times: On Baseball As Season Approaches, Some Topics Should Be Off Limits By Murray Chass Things I don't wan...

For this afternoon's game against Roy Halladay and the Blue Jays, the only players from the major league roster will be Alex Cora, Dusti...

Watching NESN on MLBtv. Play-by-play and observations for as many innings as I can. Twins 1st against Curt Schilling: I tuned in with an 0-...

MLB has instituted a number of rule changes for this season. One of them is Rule 8.04, which now reads: When the bases are unoccupied, the...

Curt Schilling, on his comment about not playing for the Yankees: People made a big deal out of that when I said it. But when Mariano River...

Against the Twins tonight : Julio Lugo SS Kevin Youkilis 1B David Ortiz DH Jason Varitek C Mike Lowell 3B Wily Mo Pena...

Clay Luraschi , Topps spokesman: Somewhere in between the final proofing and its printing, someone at our company - and we won't name na...

The Deadball Era Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research ( SABR ) has published its second book of biographies of baseball...

Manny Ramirez arrived at the Red Sox camp this morning. A few hours later, he stepped into the batter's box against Daisuke Matsuzaka. ...

Thursday's Herald : Ortiz arrived with a tiny terrier puppy named Mikey, who peacefully watched proceedings from the shade of a golf car...