Category: Akinori Iwamura

BOS 5, TB 3: Beckett’s back

Any questions about Josh Beckett returning to his 2007 form were answered against the Tampa Bay Rays. At least for one start.

Know Thine Enemy 2009: Tampa Bay Rays

The Tampa Bay Rays are coming off their first successful season in the history of the franchise. Finally, they're not considered doormats with no vision of the future. Now the Pirates stand alone there. (Even the Royals are much improved!)

This club is scary in the pool of young talent they already hold plus more on the way in the minor leagues. The Rays will compete for a very, very long time. But will they be able to withstand the Red Sox and Yankees assault in 2009?

FIGHT!

Coco Crisp charged the mound after James Shields threw at Coco, and Crisp avoided a powerful right hand from Shields…

Boston continues to slide

The Tampa Bay Rays had never faced Clay Buchholz until last night and it showed until the bottom of the…

Quick reaction to the Sox/Rays game

Do you think Clay Buchholz should have come out for the eighth? Pulled once Dioner Navarro hit and Akinori Iwamura…

Know Thy Enemy: 2008 Tampa Bay Rays

When you’ve finished nine of the ten seasons in your franchise’s history in last place of your division and you’ve…

Red Sox come back from 7-run deficit

Mike Lowell and J.D. Drew combined for seven hits while everyone else in the lineup also had a hit contributing…

Sox keep it going

Coco Crisp and Julio Lugo both drove in two runs and the Boston Red Sox slugged out a win beating…