Papi Does It AGAIN!!!
Monday, July 31st, 2006He is unbelieveable! I mean, how many superlatives can you throw around… how often can you throw them around… before they start to sound trite?
People with ballots for post-season awards can cast their MVP ballot today… because assuredly there is no player in the American League who has carried his team on his back [...]
Schilling Bedeviled By Halos, Sox Fall
Sunday, July 30th, 2006Curt Schilling just didn’t have it tonight… to be more accurate, he didn’t have ANYTHING tonight. He gave up one run in the first, two runs in the second and three more in the third on solo home runs by Orlando Cabrera, Vladimir Guerrero and Juan Rivera… and as a result he lost his [...]
Sutter, Negro Leaguers Inducted Into MLB Hall Of Fame
Sunday, July 30th, 2006Baseball forgot Buck O’Neil, but he’s never let it eat away at his soul. He always believed the measure of a man would come when things didn’t go right, when it wasn’t easy to smile and keep going.
Yankees Get Abreu, Lidle For Four Prospects
Sunday, July 30th, 2006The NY Yankees acquired offensive and pitching help today by acquiring right fielder Bobby Abreu and pitcher Cory Lidle from the Philadelphia Phillies in return for four prospects… and because they were willing to eat the big contracts fo the two players they did so without having to trade either of their top two prospects [...]
Trade Front: Rumors Abound… Have Sox Put Crisp On Market?
Sunday, July 30th, 2006ESPN’s Buster Olney has reported that the Red Sox offered Coco Crisp to the White Sox for Mark Buehrle… and that the White Sox turned them down.
The deal seems to make sense for the White Sox as they have a surplus of pitching (phenom Brandon McCarthy is pitching out of the bullpen and itching [...]
Ortiz Beats Shift; Red Sox Beat Angels
Saturday, July 29th, 2006In the bottom of the 11th inning with two outs, David Ortiz came to the plate with runners at first and second bases and two outs… and as has become typical of opposing team the Angels went into “the Ortiz shift” — placing the second baseman in short right field (like a short fielder in [...]
This Day in Baseball History: July 29
Saturday, July 29th, 2006In 1908, Rube Waddell fanned sixteen Philadelphia Athletics as the Browns defeat the A’s, 5-4. During the off season, a frustrated Connie Mack traded his talented but free-spirit hurler from Philly to St. Louis.
In 1911, at Boston’s Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds, Joe Wood of the Red Sox whiffed twelve Browns en route to a 5-0 [...]
Angels 7th Inning Spells Doom For Sox, Lester Loses First
Saturday, July 29th, 2006By the time Sweet Caroline was playing over the loud speakers at Fenway Park, the Red Sox were down to their last six outs and the normally raucous Fenway crowd had thinned noticeably. Those who remained hoped for another late-inning rally by the resilient home team, but on this night there would be no [...]
Wells Set To Return To Red Sox Rotation
Friday, July 28th, 2006David Wells will return to the Red Sox rotation on Monday night with a start against the Cleveland Indians.
Manager Terry Francona confirmed the speculation today.
Wells hasn’t pitched since sustaining a bruise below his right knee when he was hit by a line drive on May 26 against Tampa Bay… but he did well enough in [...]
The First BIG Trade: Lee To Texas
Friday, July 28th, 2006The first big trade of Trading Season has been completed… the Milwaukee Brewers tried to sign All-Star OF Carlos Lee to a contract extension and then, failing that, traded him to the Texas Rangers. Milwaukee reportedly offered a four-year extension worth $48 million during talks Thursday with Lee’s agent, Adam Katz.
Milwaukee GM Doug [...]
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