by evan brunell | Apr 15, 2008 | Cleveland Indians, Game Threads, Jed Lowrie, Paul Byrd, Tim Wakefield
Prev. Gm: Boston Red Sox (8-6) @ Cleveland Indians (5-8) Tim Wakefield (1-0, 3.27) @ Paul Byrd (0-2, 11.05) 7:05 PM EDT | Progressive Field (Cleveland, OH) TV: NESN RADIO: WEEI 850, WROL 950 GAME NOTES: Off a thrilling come-from-behind win, the Red Sox look to sweep...
by evan brunell | Apr 15, 2008 | Curt Schilling, New York Yankees
Curt Schilling was on EEI’s Dennis and Callahan this morning and made a few statements. One of them was that he would not pitch for the Yankees, contrary to remarks his personal physician said on Monday, saying Schilling was so mad the Sox told him not to have...
by mike edelman | Apr 15, 2008 | Clay Buchholz, Coco Crisp, Daisuke Matsuzaka, David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia, Hideki Okajima, J.D. Drew, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jason Varitek, Jon Lester, Jonathan Papelbon, Josh Beckett, Julian Tavarez, Julio Lugo, Kevin Cash, Kevin Youkilis, Manny Delcarmen, Manny Ramirez, Mike Lowell, Mike Timlin, Sean Casey, Tim Wakefield
A few weeks ago I asked “the crowd” here at MVN and specifically the Fire Brand community to participate in an social experiment of the highest order of importance to the future of mankind. The challenge at the time was to investigate the merits of group...
by evan brunell | Apr 15, 2008 | David Ortiz
Last night, despite Ortiz’s 2-4 night, I was frustrated at the way he handled the at-bat against Rafael Betancourt, especially the second pitch. Take a look: Today I read an article by Pizza Cutter about if foul balls can tell us anything about a hitter....
by shawn medeiros | Apr 14, 2008 | Cleveland Indians, Joe Borowski, Jon Lester, Jonathan Papelbon, Kevin Youkilis, Manny Ramirez, Mike Timlin
With some help of course. Down 4-2, Kevin Youkilis homered to deep left field to bring it closer at 4-3 in the eighth inning and then Dustin Pedroia followed in the ninth inning with a sacrifice fly to score Julio Lugo to tie the game at 4-4. That is where Ramirez...