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Game 48: Sox love the WPs
FINAL SCORE: Twins 4, Red Sox 2PLAYER OF THE GAME: Jason Bay (1 for 4, HR) Wild pitches are reason No. 381 that I love baseball. But there's no reason to love them after last night. The Red Sox had six wild pitches last night, four from Daisuke Matsuzaka and one each from Manny Delcarmen and...
I Will Stop at Nothing / Say the Right Things When Electioneering: Pure Quality Start (PQS), Game Score and Why Cliff Lee Should Not Have Won the 2008 Cy Young Award
During a game thread last week, the term pure quality start came up. Since I plan to use PQS as an important indicator of how pitchers have been doing this year (and consequently how well they'll do going forward), I'd like to do a quick post just to explain what it is, how to score it and why I...
Game 3: Dice-K struggles, Rays squeak Sox
Maybe Daisuke Matsuzaka needs to be wearing the Japan colors when he pitches, because it seems like -- at least early in the season -- he struggles with the Sox, rocks in the WBC. Dice-K got touched up for nine hits, four runs (including three home runs), three walks and struck out five in 5.1...
Matsuzaka, Buchholz in prime form
The Red Sox had a pair of ace hurlers today as Clay Buchholz handled the Orioles well today and Daisuke Matsuzaka baffled Cuban batters. While the Red Sox did lose 6-2 to the Orioles, it wasn't Buchholz's fault. He went 3.2 innings while striking out six batters and allowing just one run and two...
Gammons update: Teixeira, Bowden
A lot of good tidbits from Mr. Peter Gammons tonight: Gammons writes regarding Mark Teixeira to Boston: "One source close to Teixeira said Friday that the two sides are not that far apart, and the conciliatory and civilized nature of those words made it obvious that Teixeira likes Mr. Henry's...
Matsuzaka shuts down Rays, 2-0
via d.yimg.com Daisuke Matsuzaka knows when to kick it up a notch. Tonight, with all eyes on him, he did that -- and more. After walking the bases loaded in the first inning, Matsuzaka buckled down and dominated the Rays for 7 innings to give the Sox a 2-0 victory over the Rays in game one of the...
Random Red Sox (and other) thoughts before Game 3
What you got to say, Randy? I'm listenin'. (via d.yimg.com) With three hours until game time, I don't have one cohesive thing to say -- just a lot of little random things. Stick with me for a moment: Thank god the series has shifted to Boston. Not just because Fenway Park is the greatest...
Drew's HR beats K-Rod, Angels, 7-5
K-Rod after JD Drew's home run in the ninth inning. (via d.yimg.com) Youk reacts after his great ninth inning catch. (via d.yimg.com) Paps being Paps. (via d.yimg.com) Games like this seperate the champions from everyone else. After the Red Sox took a 4-0 lead in the first inning, the Angels...
What to expect from Matsuzaka in game two
via msnbcmedia1.msn.com It's no secret: all season long we waited to see when Daisuke Matsuzaka was going to get burned. He tempted fate all too much. It seemed like two innings couldn't go by before he loaded the bases and, in turn, left them loaded to end an inning. He would walk as many as...
Lester, Bay lead Red Sox over Angels, 4-1
via d.yimg.com When Red Sox Nation found out that Josh Beckett had an oblique injury and would not start game one of the ALDS against the Angels, people worried. Beckett, probably the greatest postseason pitcher in baseball today, would not set the tone for the series. But the tone was set, just...
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