Baltimore Orioles

Red Sox on Fire as Limping Rays Come to Fenway

The Red Sox are as hot as they have been all season, winning five of six games this week, and the rest of the regulars are about to get healthy.  Josh Beckett, Mike Lowell, and Kevin Youkilis (Youk missed another three games with his back) returned in this week’s Texas series and J. D. Drew is [...]

Red Sox Look for September Surge

September is finally upon us and the division race has never been closer. The Red Sox were finally able to gain some ground on those pesky Tampa Bay Rays and continue to further themselves from the New York Yankees. The Chicago White Sox and the Baltimore Orioles were both targets of the Red Sox advance [...]

Despite Wins, Red Sox Lose Ground on Rays

The Red Sox continue to play good baseball, winning both series this week over the Yankees and White Sox, to extend their series win streak to four.  However, the Rays continue to find ways to win, gutting out victory after victory (in front of an embarrassing 10,000 fans) and extended their division lead to 5.5 over the [...]

Red Sox-Yankees Showdown Looms after Successful Week

For the first time since the All-Star Break, the Red Sox showed conisistency in winning two series within one calendar week (Yes, they beat the A’s and Royals back-to-back in the beginning of August, but that spanned two weeks). The Red Sox took care of business against the bottom two teams in the AL East (Baltimore and Toronto) with a tough [...]

Clay Buchholz Sent to Minors After Loss

Troubled Righty Headed to Portland
The Red Sox took two of three games on the road against the Orioles. The two wins were courtesy of the team’s two best starters: Jon Lester and Daisuke Matsuzaka. The one loss was because of the team’s worst starter: Clay Buchholz. His latest rough outing (2.1 IP, 3 H, 5 [...]

Red Sox-Orioles Three-Ball Walk: Coco Crisp Video

Home Plate Ump Andy Fletcher Needs to Read the MLB Rulebook
Coco Crisp does not know how many balls it takes to walk. Neither does home plate umpire Andy Fletcher…
See what I mean:

NOTE: The video may be removed from YouTube, but until it is, enjoy.

View from the Monster 7-14

As the Red Sox hit the break, all is right with the Nation once again. The Sox had a great 5-1 week (3-0 versus Minnesota and 2-1 against Baltimore), which coupled with the Rays 0-7 week, turned the 5.5 game deficit into a half-game lead. As quickly as the Sox dropped back, they [...]

Lowell Slam Trounces Orioles 9-2

The Red Sox continued their dominant play at home with a convincing 9-2 win to slap an exclamation point on the series and the homestand. Mike Lowell hit a grand slam, and J.D. Drew and Kevin Youkilis each hit two-run shots to help Jon Lester improve to 5-3.
Lester went seven strong innings and allowed two [...]

Varitek, Lowell Carry Sox Over Orioles

Bartolo Colon reached an important milestone on his way to 300…and I don’t mean his weight. Bartolo Colon registered his 150th win (exactly half-way to 300) in a 6-3 triumph over the Orioles. Colon pitched well yet again, allowing one run in six innings with seven strikeouts.
Colon was really helped by the Sox bats, especially [...]

Drew Stays Hot, Sox Bullpen Blows It

The Red Sox played host to a team they should be very familiar with in the Baltimore Orioles. They played the O’s during the most recent road trip (taking two out of three) and again find themselves facing the division foe. The bullpen, however, played like they’ve never seen the Orioles, blowing a 6-4 Red [...]

Ortiz Out With Wrist Injury, Sox Lose

Red Sox slugger David Ortiz has been a fixture in the No. 3 spot for much of his Red Sox career. Now, the Sox must move on without Ortiz for at least a month and perhaps the entire season after Sox doctors diagnosed Big Papi with a partially torn tendon in his left wrist, sending him to [...]

Manny Hits No. 501 in Sox Win

A day after blasting his historic 500th home run, Manny Ramirez didn’t waste any time in going for the next milestone. He launched his 501st home run, a two-run shot, as the Red Sox took their third straight from the Orioles, 9-4.
Bartolo Colon (3-0) earned the win with a decent outing, going six innings and allowing [...]

Lowell Delivers in Extras for Red Sox

The Red Sox bats really took a long time to wake up, but with the help of some timely hitting and three Baltimore Orioles, the Sox “busted out” with five runs in a 5-2 victory in 13 innings. Manny Ramirez reached in the 13th on an error and made his way to 2nd base. Mike [...]

Orioles Sweep Sox in Baltimore

The Red Sox were out-pitched, out-hit, and out-classed by the Baltimore Orioles in a brief two-game series. Could the guard in the AL East be changing? Probably not, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves. In Game 1, Jeremy Guthrie calmed down after allowing three runs in the first inning to hold the Red Sox [...]

AL East Fantasy Preview: Baltimore Orioles

Baltimore has taken a bold step in the direction of the franchise and have decided to rebuild their team. Baltimore traded two of its biggest names in SS Miguel Tejada and ace pitcher Erik Bedard. Bedard stayed in the AL by being traded to Seattle and Tejada made the jump to the NL with the Houston [...]