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I’m going to take you back to a happier time, a much simpler time. Flashback to July 1. Matt Andriese pitches from the stretch and delivers an 87-mile per-hour changeup in the dirt that strikes out Kansas City Royals catcher Sebastian Rivero. That pitch capped off a 15-3 thrashing sending the Fenway faithful home happy. […] READ MORE
Boy was the first half fun for the Boston Red Sox. Raise your hand if you predicted the Sox would have: The best record in the American League (55-36), a perfect record against their rival New York Yankees (6-0), and a top-five staff ranking in pitching WAR (11.9). Well if you did you should head […] READ MORE
July is when baseball season changes from a new friend that you are getting to know into either a welcomed confidant or a nuisance that refuses to bring delight. The spring and summer weather has lost its novelty. The crack of the bat and the satisfying first bite of the dog are not enough anymore. […] READ MORE
The Boston Red Sox can make a deep playoff push and possibly win the World Series if a few breaks go their way in the shortened season. READ MORE
One year ago the Boston Red Sox found themselves in first place chasing their fourth World Series ring this century. Today the Sox are in third place and clawing their way back into the Wild Card race. At the 2019 All-Star break, Boston sits nine games out of first place with a 49-41 record. The […] READ MORE
After Major League Baseball’s very first London Series, the people of England may be more confused about baseball than they were before. Heck — Americans might be too. Rob Manfred and the MLB turned a soccer stadium built with the aerodynamics for track and field into a baseball field. A baseball field with a shorter […] READ MORE
Part I: A Tale of Two Seasons (So Far) Few teams came into the 2019 season with as different expectations as the Boston Red Sox and the Seattle Mariners. The Red Sox entered the season aiming to defend their 2018 World Series title while the Mariners aimed to compete in 2020 or 2021. Both team’s […] READ MORE
With four weeks remaining until the start of the 2019 MLB season the defending World Series Champion Boston Red Sox have a conspicuous hole in the depth chart. As the roster stands right now, there is no clear cut favorite to be the 2019 closer. Let’s discuss how we got to this point, and some […] READ MORE
On Sunday, the Boston Red Sox were in a rubber match with the Tampa Bay Rays to decide who would win the series. Things started off fairly well; the team was only down 3-2 after five, and 4-2 after seen. Most would assume that the team could still have come back from a two-run deficit. […] READ MORE
It’s a well-known fact that there’s no love lost between the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles. Those tensions reached the boiling point during the weekend series between the two teams, when reliever Matt Barnes of the Red Sox threw a fastball behind the head of Orioles third baseman Manny Machado in the eighth inning […] READ MORE