Another odd play

How does this stuff happen?
Last month when the Red Sox were playing the Yankees in Yankee Stadium, Kevin Youkilis hit a ball to left that missed being a homerun by inches. How did it miss? It deflected off Johnny Damon’s glove and sat on the top of the narrow outfield wall for a [...]

Papelbon gets his 30th save of the season

Last night’s win over Seattle gave Jonathan Papelbon his 30th save this season. By reaching that mark he has become the ONLY Red Sox pitcher in history to get 30 or more in 3 straight seasons. The 30-30-30 group is now being called ‘The Papelbon Club.’ Here is what Jonathan had to [...]

David Ortiz inches closer to returning

While Jon Lester was baffling the easily-baffleable Seattle Mariners, David Ortiz was taking another step towards full recovery from his injury. Instead of playing in Triple-A Pawtucket (where he bought the team goat tacos and other gross sounding food), he was taking his swings with the Double-A Portland Sea Dogs. Big Papi went [...]

Red Sox sign Casey Kelly

The Sox have announced that they have officially signed 1st round draft choice Casey Kelly. Kelly, taken as the 30th pick, was a two sport star (football and baseball) for Sarasota High School and had previously committed to playing for Tennessee. The Sox had faith that they could sign him anyway (and so [...]

Charlie Zink gets screwed by the IL

We mentioned the other day that 5 Pawtucket players have been elected to participate in the International League’s All-Star Game (link). Among them was RHP Charlie Zink, who is leading all starters (with 100+ IP) with a 2.22 ERA. Unfortunately because Zink pitched last night, the IL decided that they didn’t want him [...]

Che-Hsuan Lin named MVP of Futures Game

All it took was two swings of the bat to morph OF Che-Hsuan Lin from an obscure Single-A prospect into a slightly less obscure Single-A prospect. Lin, representing the Red Sox in Sunday’s ‘XM All-Star Futures Game,’ went 2-2 in the game and was named the MVP. His two hits included a solo HR to [...]

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