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A Southpaw Stands Out

by mike scandura | Jun 30, 2014 | Alex Hassan, Allen Webster, Anthony Ranaudo, Boston Red Sox, Brandon Workman, Dan Butler, Rubby de la Rosa, Travis Shaw

PAWTUCKET, R.I. – Maybe Chris Hernandez isn’t as high in Boston’s pitching pecking order as Rubby De La Rosa and Brandon Workman or, for that matter, Allen Webster and Anthony Ranaudo. But if the 25-year-old left-hander continues to deliver performances like the one...

How Christian Vasquez Came To Be

by mike scandura | Jun 8, 2014 | A.J. Pierzynski, Allen Webster, Anthony Ranaudo, Boston Red Sox, Brandon Workman, Christian Vazquez, David Ross, Ivan Rodriguez, Jose Molina, Yadier Molina

Most youngsters who grew up in the late 1990s were inclined to watch television shows like Pokeman, SpongeBob Square Pants or Power Rangers. That wasn’t the case with Pawtucket Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez. When Vazquez turned on the TV set in his hometown of...

PawSox Turn Triple Play, But Fall In Extra Frames

by mike scandura | May 20, 2014 | Allen Webster, Boston Red Sox, Drake Britton, Garin Cecchini, Ryan Roberts

PAWTUCKET, R.I. – First, the good news. The Pawtucket Red Sox turned their first triple play since June 26, 2009 in the eighth inning of Monday night’s game against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. Now, the bad news. Pawtucket’s usually reliable bullpen imploded...

De La Rosa Perseveres in PawSox Victory

by mike scandura | May 8, 2014 | Ben Guez, Brock Holt, Bryce Brentz, Corey Brown, Daniel Nava, Drake Britton, Kevin Boles, Pawtucket Red Sox, Rubby de la Rosa, Tyler Collins

PAWTUCKET, R.I. – Somewhere in baseball’s book of clichés is the one that says all a manager can hope for from his starting pitcher is that he keeps his team in the game. That was the story Thursday afternoon when Pawtucket Red Sox right-hander Rubby De La Rosa...

Hard Work at the Hot Corner

by mike scandura | May 5, 2014 | 2013 Pawtucket Red Sox, Boston Red Sox, Garin Cecchini, Gavin Cecchini, Jose Iglesias, Kevin Boles, Will Middlebrooks, Xander Bogaerts

Might Pawtucket Red Sox third baseman Garin Cecchini be to Boston’s Will Middlebrooks what Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts was to Jose Iglesias? While that may be an interesting theory, PawSox manager Kevin Boles declined to speculate. “We don’t want to get too far...
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