Ryan Kalish and the 2011 Club

After Sunday night’s heartbreaker, the Sox have three games to shave 2.5 off of the Wildcard chase… Ryan Kalish… Kalishnikov… AK-47… whichever nickname you prefer, has done quite a job in Jacoby Ellsbury’s stead. The main piece of the Sox second-half patchwork...

Things Were Different Then

When it’s late September and you are sitting at Fenway Park in the freezing cold, staring at the scoreboard, you expect it to read something like: Boston 91-62 (–) New York 91-61 (1/2) Tampa Bay 87-66 (4) Toronto 73-80 (18) Baltimore 64-89 (27) Instead, in...

COVEROO Trivia: Pitcher home runs

The first pitcher in baseball history to hit a pair of two-run home run games in a single season was a Red Sox. Name him. HONOR CODE: No search engines. Check out the trivia leaderboard here. Previous trivia question: Jimmy Piersall holds the record for most hits in a...