Top of the 8th
CF Crisp faces Balfour and has a leadoff walk. Manager Joe Maddon, probably this year’s manager of the year has just taken out Balfour, replaced by Chad Bradford, the knuckelscrapping submarine pitcher to face 2B Pedroia. 2B Pedroia faces Bradford with Crisp on 1B without any outs. Will Crisp take off to remove the possible […]
Bottom of the 7th as Boston Leads 4-2
Willie Aybar is pinch hitting for DH Cliff Floyd, but he pops up in foul ground to 3B Kevin Youkilis. 1 out. C Navarro is up and the count is 0-2 then he hits a towering pop up in foul ground to LF Jason Bay. 2 outs. RF Zobrist flies out to the warning track […]
Top of the 7th as Boston Leads 4-2
RF J.D. Drew leads off and popped up for the first out. LF Bay is hit by a pitch on the hip. 1B Kotsay is 1-3 in the game, a single in the second inning. He hits a high chopper to Howell, the pitcher and is thrown out at 1B. Bay moves onto 2B. Howell […]
Rays Half of the 6th Inning
Okajima is now pitching for the Red Sox. The Red Sox are leading 4-2 CF B.J. Upton and he lines out to 3B Youkilis. 1 out. 1B Pena, whos is hitting .350 with 3 HRs and 6 RBIs in this series is now up with 1 out. Full count. It was a late call, but […]
Red Sox Half of the 6th Inning
Ben Zobrist stays in the game playing RF for the Rays! 1B Kotsay leads off for the Sox. What an amazing leaping stab by 2B Iwamura with that alligator glove of his! Wow! What a play! He has definately adjusted to his move to 2B as his whole career, even in Japan, he was a […]
5th Inning – Rays
The commentators are saying that Beckett is pitching in pain and is taking some extra time warming up before the start of this half inning. C Navarro ropes a single to RF. PH Ben Zobrist is hitting for RF Gabe Gross. Count is 1-2 then Zobrist pops out to CF and is now 0-3 this […]
5th Inning – Boston
DH Ortiz, who’s hitting .143 with 1 HR and 3 RBI leads off…who hits Shields’ 91st pitch as a pop fly to LF. 1 out. Youkilis lines out to the next rookie of the year, 3B Evan Longoria. 2 outs. Drew hits another 2-out line drive double over the head of RF Gabe Gross. Bay […]
Bottom of the 4th Inning
Former Sox 1B and Northeastern University graduate from Haverhill, MA, Carlos Pena pops up to 3B Kevin Youkilis for the first out of the inning. 3B Evan Longoria flied out to CF. 2 outs. LF Crawford is 0-5 after going 5 for 5 in a previous game in this series. On Beckett’s 54th pitch of […]
Top of the 4th Inning
Darrell Cousins, the home plate umpire has left the game due to injury. If there was ever a time for Ques Tec, now might have been one of those times. I wonder if this delay will affect James Shields who isn’t pitching as dominant as he was earlier in this series. This is ridiculously long! […]
Bottom of the 3rd
RF Gabe Gross leads off the Rays third inning. Beckett’s fastball is a few mph slower than usual, but he’s pitching well as Gross strikesout looking. 1 out. SS Jason Bartlett is clipped by a pitch. Bartlett didn’t even attempt to get out of the way. He barely moved. 2B Iwamura, who struckout in the […]
Top of the 3rd
CF Coco Crisp leads off and is hitting .462 in the ALCS so far. Coco was a key part to the other nights second best comeback in playoff history. He had a bunt single in the first, but was picked off 1B soon after. The count is 2-2 and Crisp flies out to his counterpart […]
Bottom of the 2nd
While TBS is recapping the missed first inning, I’d like to take this time to show my dislike of that 9 feet graphic when a runner takes a 9 foot lead from first base. What do you all think about this graphic? Crawford grounds the first pitch he sees to Pedroia (2B). 1 out. DH […]
Game 6 in progress…
1st Inning Due to technical difficulties, TBS has finally brought us the game, only to find the Sox on the field and after BJ Upton had hit a HR off the 3rd catwalk.
Live Blogging ALCS Game 6
Hi everyone! I will be live blogging tonight’s game 6 of the ALCS between the visiting Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays. Tonight, we will see Tampa’s James Shields matching up against Boston’s Josh Beckett. The Rays lead the series 3-2. See you during the first inning!
A Great Awakening
Pete’s Rose Writes Again! Thank you Red Sox! After a long dormant spell of around 11 months, Pete’s Rose is once again heard on Baseball Reflections and it took the second best comeback in baseball playoff history to do it. I woke up this morning realizing that I don’t have what it takes to be […]
Can They Do It Again?
Boston’s Ray of Hope Out of the 4 teams in ALCS history to be down 3-1 only to come back to win the series, Boston holds claim to 3 of them. First in 1986 against the Angels, then historically in 2004 against the Yankees (where they were down 3-0) and again last year (2007) against […]
Rays and Phillies Move Closer Together
Tampa Bay Rays Lead the Series 2-1 Yesterday afternoon saw what some thought was the unthinkable in this post season. Jon Lester got hit hard and earned the loss against the Rays. Yesterday I called Lester “the Beast of the East” and if this series goes to game 7 and he pitches like he has […]
League Championship Series Update
ALCS In today’s matinee, the Red Sox will host the Rays at 96 year old Fenway Park in game 3 of their ALCS showdown. The series is tied at 1 game a piece going into these 3 games in Boston. The Rays need to win only 1 game in order to bring this series back […]
Pete’s Preview and Prediction of the ALCS
Right off the bat, you have to mention the injuries. Boston is without 3B Mike Lowell and Tampa is without closer Troy Percival. Boston‘s replacement on the roster goes to RP Mike Timlin, while Tampa has added SP Edwin Jackson. On paper, Boston has the advantage in 5 of the 9 spots in the line […]
Moving Onto The League Championship Series
Last night, both beasts from the east advanced into the ALCS. The Tampa Bay Rays will host the Boston Red Sox in game 1 on Friday, October 10th at 8:35pm. I predict that this one will go to 7 games. There will definitely NOT be a sweep of any kind. The Angels are upset right […]
Recent MLB News
A Cubs No-No Cubs Ace Carlos Zambrano returned from time off due to a tired arm on Sunday and threw the first no-hitter of his career (and the first by a Cubs pitcher in something like 36 years) against the Astros in Milwaukee due to the Hurricane Ike scare. His performance may have been just […]
