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Sports Redux: Bruins Come Alive!
Matt Slocum / Associated Press Offensive struggles? What offensive struggles? The Bruins put more goals on the board last night than they did in the entire month of February - well, that's how it seems - exploding for a 5-1 win in Philadelphia that showed they still have a little spunk in them. The big winner of the day was Patrice Bergeron, moved onto the first line after Marc Savard's injury (which they now...
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Sports Redux: Start Spreadin' The News, We've Lost Jason Bay
Keith Allison, Flickr, Used under Creative Commons license. Well, he's gone. After the Red Sox spent the offseason thus far making it clear that resigning Jason Bay was Priority Number...let's say Number 46...Bay took his act south, as we noted yesterday, reportedly signing with the Mets for 4 years and 66 million clams. So we'll miss our favorite dour Canadian outfielder, who should fit right in in New York, except for being quiet, Canadian,...
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Bay To Sign With Mets
According to Boston.com, WFAN is reporting Jason Bay will sign a 4-year, $66 million contract with the New York Mets. Bay reportedly still must pass a physical to seal the deal. More details to follow...[Boston.com]
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Sports Redux: The Night Chicago Cried
Was it really less than a year ago that the Celtics had their hands more than full with the Chicago Bulls? Was it really just this past spring that the Bulls looked more athletic, faster, maybe even hungrier than the old-looking C's? What happened? Well, the Celtics are back to full strength (with apologies to Glen Davis), and the Bulls are...struggling, is the polite way to put it. And it showed last night, as the...
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Sports Redux: Catching Up With Old Friends
Brian Babineau / NHLI Phil Kessel's played two games in the Garden since became an ex-employee there. We wonder if he's wistful, since his Leafs were smacked around both times. Last night, he watched his old teammate build a 3-0 lead and hang on for a 5-2 win. Goals by Mark Stuart, Derek Morris and David Krejci built the lead, then after Tuukka Rask let in two, Mark Recchi took over and scored the...
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Sports Redux: Meetin' Time
Photo by flickr user tauntingpanda Focusing on the future has rarely been as favorable an idea as it did on Monday. Don't get us wrong, we picked apart every single little thing that unfolded during that debacle with the Dolphins on Sunday, but we're still unsettled trying to adjust our thinking about our football team. Why not instead look ahead? Sports fans' eyes are turned to Indianapolis, where the MLB winter meetings are heating...
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Sports Redux: B's Hang On, Get 2 (Two!) Points
The Bruins won! Sure, they gave up a 2-0 first-period lead, and they allowed Atlanta to tie the game again, 3-3, in the final minute. But Patrice Bergeron beat Ondrej Pavelec in the shootout to give the B's their first win in like forever. They got that 2-0 lead on goals by Marco Sturm and Michael Ryder. Tuukka Rask, filling in once again for the slightly-injured Tim Thomas, countered by letting two Thrasher shots by...
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Sports Redux: Don't Look Now, C's Lose
Atlanta's coach Mike Woodson viewed this game as a measuring stick for his squad. The Hawks measured up well with the Celtics and won, 97-86. Atlanta led 72-70 after three quarters and outscored the veteran C's crew 25-16 in the fourth.
Former Celtics player Joe Johnson led the Hawks with 24 points. Jamal Crawford added 18 points. Paul Pierce led Boston with 24. Pierce went to the floor once, came up limping, went to see the trainer, and returned with a brace thing on his leg.
Boston dropped to 8-2 with their second home loss of the season. Comcast Sportsnet said the second home loss of 2008-09 took place on January 7. If you're wondering how the rag-tag Hawks won, check the box score and look for "Rebounds." Or, go with Kevin Garnett, who said Atlanta simply "beat us."
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Sports Redux: A Winning Streak!
Have the Bruins turned the proverbial corner?
After a solid month of alternating ups and downs, followed by a couple of weeks of unqualified downs, the B's finally notched their first honest-to-goodness winning streak of the season, beating the staggering Penguins 3-0 last night at the Garden
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Sports Redux: A Fair Point
Charles Krupa / Associated Press It's one point. A shootout loss. One goal. The Bruins will gratefully take it right now. With the offense struggling to even find the goal, let alone put the puck in it, and with swine flu racing towards the team, it's time to think about baby steps. Sure it took two games, two periods, and 19 minutes for the B's to find the net, but Patrice Bergeron did, just...
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Sports Redux: No Surprises
Sox beat Orioles, Bruins trade Kessel
The Red Sox beat the Orioles again. That's 14-2 in 2009. Clay Buchholz pitched well enough to keep the Orioles AAAA lineup in check. He threw for six innings and allowed just one run. Jacoby Ellsbury, Casey Kotchman and Jason Bay (home run) each drove in one run. Bay left the game early with flu-like symptoms, and should be available today.
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Sports Redux: This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.
On the outside looking in. After losing two out of three in Texas, the Red Sox are out of the playoff picture for the moment. It's a troubling time. Out batting is ineffective, our pitching (beyond Beckett and Lester) is shaky, and by our unofficial count, the Sox are 2-75 on the road this season. Not counting Baltimore. We still have no idea what Junichi Tazawa is going to give us on any given day,...
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Sports Redux: Beckett Puts Tigers In Tank
Wow, that dismal weekend in New York seems like a long time ago, doesn't it?
Back at home and spurred on by Kevin Youkilis' charge on Tuesday (OK, that wasn't a total success, but what's done is done), the Sox continued pounding the Tigers, 8-2. Most of those runs were admittedly superfluous, as Josh Beckett had another Josh Beckett game, allowing only three hits (well, two of them were solo HRs) over seven innings to pick up his league-high 14th win.
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Sports Redux: Something Happens And We're Head Over Heels
Runs = wins. It's not a 100% certainty, but since the Sox learned last week to their sorrow that "no runs = no wins", it was worth a try. And back at friendly Fenway, with the Tigers in town - they lead the AL Central, to be sure, but kind of mostly because somebody has to - they scored early and often enough. We'll take it. They got out to a quick 2-0 lead...
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Sports Redux: A Loss For A Higher Purpose?
Maybe someday in the future - not even the distant future - we'll look back at yesterday's Red Sox loss as something good. No, wait, really. Maybe Roy Halladay's dazzling performance and total shutdown of the Sox' offense will cause some team - some National League team - to pull the trigger and trade for the Jays' ace. If he's out of the AL East and the Red Sox never have to see him again, isn't that worth a late-July loss?
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Sports Redux: Confidence Game For Buchholz
Clay Buchholz told NESN that he's in a game where confidence is key. He's got it now and has to keep it to be successful in the MLB. Buchholz solidified his self-confidence and the organization's confidence in him on Friday by pitching 5.2 innings and giving up just one run on four hits as the Red Sox beat the Blue Jays, 4-1. And now, he goes back to Pawtucket. So watch out all you AAA punks.
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Sports Redux: The NHL Reveals Its Big Secret
The NHL had announced a "major announcement" would be announced at a press conference yesterday at Fenway Park. What would it be? That the Pengins won the Stanley Cup? That Ovechkin had been named the MVP? That Charlton Heston saw the Statue of Liberty at the end and realized he'd been on the Earth of the future all along?
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Sports Redux: In Beckett We Trust
Wakefield's been pitching out of his mind. Penny and Lester have been good, for the most part, but not great. Smoltz is still a giant question mark. Dice-K seems to have been rightly sent on the "Julio Lugo Not-Really-Injured Tour Of The World". The one constant, with apologies to Terence Mann, is Josh Beckett. Throw out his uncharacteristically bad April, and Beckett has been everything the Sox demand of their ace. Last night he...
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Pedroia, Bay, Wakefield Make All-Star Team
Dustin Pedroia and Jason Bay were the top vote-getters at their positions and will start for the American League in the MLB All-Star Game on July 14 in St. Louis. Tim Wakefield (10-3) was also named to the squad, becoming the second oldest All-Star ever according to TBS. Josh Beckett, Kevin Youkilis and Jonathan Paplebon were also picked by Tampa Bay's Joe Maddon, A.L. Manager. The complete All-Star rosters are now available at MLB.com.
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Bite Size News, July 2: Lightning Strikes Edition
Dang, the weather has been shitty lately. [Boston Metro]
FYI, boating and lightning don't mix. [Cape Cod Times]
Churches and lightning don't mix either. [Milford Daily News]
Jason Bay and his wife are becoming US citizens today. [WEEI]
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Sports Redux: A Triumphant Return to Washington
The last time the Red Sox played in Washington, D.C., Rogelio Moret got a complete game win on home runs by Joe Lahoud and Rico Petrocelli. A 32-year-old Carl Yastrzemski batted third and went 0-for-3. In other words, it was a long time ago.
Back in the nation's capital, the Sox took a little time to assert themselves, but that's what they did, unloading on the hapless Nationals bullpen to run away with an 11-3 drubbing of the worst team in baseball.
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Sports Redux: 18 and a Half Million
By our unofficial calculations, 18.5 million people have gone to games at Fenway since the last time you could actually show up, cash in hand, and get a seat. That's more than the population of Chile or Greece. The Sox notched their 500th sellout in a row last night. And the fans, who came to celebrate that nice round number, got two for one, as Brad Penny got his 100th career win, beating Florida 6-1.
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Sports Redux: Another Long Night In Philly
Hopefully, the Red Sox weren't planning on going out dancing after their first two games in Philadelphia. Extra innings on Friday, and an hour-and-a-half rain delay Saturday. At least Pat's is open 24/7 for a late night cheesesteak.
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Sports Redux: Pitching=October
It's June. June 13. The game last night was the 61st game of 2009. But, it really could have been played in October. The last two World Series champions battled in a game the Red Sox won 5-2 in 13 innings in a game that was filled with great pitching, timely hitting and error-free defense. Bostonist is making no predictions but Boston and Philadelphia, well, hey, you saw the game. Admit it. You thought it, too. The Herald did it, too.
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Sports Redux: As Cold And As Empty As Canada
"This is a nice spring/summer day sometimes where I'm from, so, you know, I enjoy this," said Jason Bay. Bay, as you probably know is from Trail, British Columbia, a collection of 7,000 hardy souls in the middle of a frigid, less-than-hospitable environment*. So the Bronx must have made him feel right at home last night. Bay smacked a 3-run homer in the first off Joba Chamberlain (no doubt distracted by the news that...
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Sports Redux: Mr. Clutch
David Ortiz, take a load off. Relax. Red Sox Nation needn't always turn its hopeful eyes to you anymore. There is a new Mr. Clutch in town - his name is Jason Bay. Bay, the man all those fans of our former left fielder said would never be able to properly fill a dreadlocked-shaped hole in the batting lineup, came up with another huge home run on Monday night. This time it was a three-run...
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Sports Redux: Sox' Late Shift Eligible For Bonus Pay
The Red Sox and the Yankees are constitutionally forbidden from playing a game in less than four hours. That's the only explanation, right? Luckily for us, the Sox only really started getting their act together as the clock crept towards midnight, as a pair of clutch home runs gave them a 5-4 win and a 1-0 advantage in the 133 games these two old foes are slated to play against each other this year.
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Sports Redux: Bay to Go
Two outs, bottom of nine, bases loaded, winning run on base. It's the setup Red Sox fans always want for their home team. It's the situation on which whatever man up at bat has delivered for us time and time again. Only problem? We're the visitors. We're cheering for the guy on the mound - Jonathan Papelbon - hoping that this is the time in which the mighty Casey (Howie Kendrick) would strike out....
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Sports Redux: You Can't Win Them All
Well, that was a letdown. The Red Sox' pursuit of a perfect 162-0 season came to a crashing halt last night at the hands of Scott Kazmir. The Sox could only get to Kazmir once, on a Youkilis RBI single, while the Rays didn't have a lot of trouble figuring out Jon Lester. Their first run, in the third, was unearned, but they hit Lester for four runs in the fifth, the big blow...
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Sports Redux: Out With A Whimper
So much for that. After the rousing Game Five comeback and the solid Game Six win, you can understand why we thought the experience and the mental toughness of the Sox would win out over the youth and the big dreams of the Rays. And, if the Sox had brought their bats to Tropicana Field last night, the story may well have ended the way we wanted it to. But they didn't, and it just...ended....
