Day: April 27, 2009

BOS 3, CLE 1: Streak on

Jason Bay maybe stealing the "clutch" title away from David Ortiz.

Patience is a gift, use it right.

Pitch 4: Breaking ball, out of the strike zone, check-swing, strike three. I am not upset because Drew struck out, it happens to him, it happens to everyone. But it would have been a good move to at least try and hit that fastball that Wood gave you.

Fenway Guide TRIVIA: GIDP in a season

Two-parter question today, each worth .5 of a point. Two Red Sox have the honor of the most GIDP (ground-in-double-plays) from their respective sides in the plate. Who are the two? (We're asking for the player with the most GIDP from the left side of the plate in a season and also the right side; not cumulatively.)

Lugo returns; is he better than Green?

MLB: FEB 18 Red Sox Spring Training
Julio Lugo is back in our lives.

Get used to it.

While the pecking order clearly deliniates Lugo as the starting shortstop over Nick Green, it will be hard for Lugo to justify starting full-time over Green, at least in the outset.

Read on to see if there's an impending battle between Lugo and Green...

R before Y

The reverent bias towards the NY Yankees has become automatic and fairly universal. The announcers on ESPN and especially Fox…

BOS 4, NYY 1: Thieves

After Usain Bolt threw out the first pitch in Saturday's win against the New York Yankees, Jacoby Ellsbury wanted to remind everyone who the fastest person wearing a Boston Red Sox jersey really was.