David Ortiz dropped to 6th in the lineup

The lineups are out for tonight’s game against the Minnesota Twins and David Ortiz has been dropped to 6th in the batting order. Mike Lowell will be getting the night off. Here’s the lineup as tweeted by Amalie Benjamin. 1. Ellsbury 2. Pedroia 3. Drew 4....

Calling for Clay

Upon hearing of the feats of Clay Buchholz last night in Louisville for the Pawtucket Red Sox, I tweeted my gut reaction as follows: “Clay Buchholz just made his statement. It is time for the Red Sox to proverbially “sh!t or get off the pot”. For Red...

Tito to drop Ortiz in the lineup?

Stumbled on this interesting tweet from Joe Haggerty (a regular guest of Fireside Chats) after tonight’s game. I think it’s time.  Since coming back from his “break”, Ortiz has hit a measly .158 with nine, count them K, K, K, K, K, K, K, K, K,...