the joy of sox

Talk about posts that write themselves! What follows is most of an email I received from Pete : ***** I'm not a big number cruncher but ...

No Red Sox baseball for almost 99 hours -- from the end of today's game at 4:17 to 7:00 on Thursday night when the Blue Jays visit Fenwa...

Swept at Detroit for the first time since June 1992. Dice (5-10-6-1-4, 90) was hit hard early (3 HRs), but the Red Sox rallied. Trailing 6-2...

Kason Gabbard (5.79, 78 ERA+) / Jeremy Bonderman (3.58, 123 ERA+)

Jeff Bailey learned he was heading to the major leagues (after 11 years in the minors) from Pawtucket manager Ron Johnson at a truck stop ...

Several players on the 1977 New York Yankees watched the new mini-series "The Bronx Is Burning" and then talked about the 1978 te...

Sexy Lips was almost out of trouble. Down 4-1 in the fifth, with two on and no one out, he struck out Magglio Ordonez and got Carlos Guillen...

Jacoby Ellsbury was optioned back to Pawtucket after last night's game. While in Boston, he went 6-for-16 (.375) with two walks. Godon E...

Devil Rays - 002 001 100 - 4 11 0 Red Sox - 634 002 00x - 15 21 0 Lowell: 5-for-6, HR, 5 RBI, 3 RS Crisp: Grand Slam, double, 5 RBI Ort...

Who will pitch through the weekend -- and into the "second half"? T 0705 - Beckett v Devil Rays F 0706 - Tavarez at Tigers S 0707...

David Laurila interviews Aaron Bates, the Red Sox's selection in the third round of the 2006 draft. Bates ... has Youkilis-like plate d...

Meanwhile:

Wakefield turned in another good start (6.1-7-4-2-2, 90). Three of those his four runs allowed came in the seventh on hits off Javier Lopez...

He'll never grab my heart the way Pedro did, but I'm really starting to enjoying watching Dice pitch. IP H ER BB K PIT-...

I have been more than a little remiss in posting any news (outside of game posts and New York tabloids) for a little while. Over the past fe...

It was a night for three of the lesser lights on the Red Sox roster. Gabbard: 5.2-3-3-4-5, 99 Eric Hinske: 2-for-4, with a 3-run triple that...

The Daily News raises the white flag.

At 5 PM on Sunday, July 8, after the afternoon game against Detroit, NESN will be showing something that is loooooong overdue: " The B...

David Ortiz had his first chance at a walk-off hit this season -- but popped up Eric Gagne's 1-1 pitch to first with Dustin Pedroia on b...