Category: John Lackey

 C.C. Sabathia

8/7 Online Seats Game Thread: CC’ing Red

In a Saturday afternoon matinee, John Lackey will try to cut down the Yankees best in CC Sabathia, helping the Boston Red Sox in the hunt for the AL East.

August 7, 2010 jake digregorio
John Lackey

Lackey’s Lack of Consistency

July 10, 2010 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 10 July 2010: Red Sox starter John Lackey.
On Monday night, John Lackey took the mound looking to continue his stretch of 22.1 effective innings in which he had only allowed four earned runs and posted a 13/3 K/BB ratio.

Going up against a lackluster Cleveland lineup that ranks twelfth in the American League in OPS seemed to be just the ticket. Instead, Lackey struggled through 5 1/3 innings, allowing six earned runs on nine hits while striking out seven and walking five.

August 3, 2010 charliesap
Clay Buchholz

Showing Aces

Oct 1, 2008; Anaheim, CA, USA; Boston Red Sox starter Jon Lester (31) reacts during 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels in game one of the ALDS at Angel Stadium. Photo via Newscom Photo via Newscom
The promise of this season, coming in, was pitching and defense. Instead, to this point we've seen a team riddled with injuries and dependent more on their offense -- despite a recent lull, the team is still second only to the Yankees in all of baseball with 521 runs scored -- than their bottom-third defense (tenth in the AL at 444 runs scored). Much of that blame has to be placed on the injuries to Beckett, Buchholz, Wakefield, and Matsuzaka; the mediocre performance from Lackey; and the the at-times awful bullpen contribution.

However, things appear to be looking up for the pitching staff: Beckett and Buchholz have both recently returned to action with strong outings, while Matsuzaka and Lackey seem to be hitting their strides. Shoring up the starting rotation would be a tremendous improvement for this team, but would it be enough?

July 28, 2010 andrew lipsett
John Lackey

Lackey starting to show some signs

July 10, 2010 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 10 July 2010: Red Sox starter John Lackey.
Lackey starting to show some signs I’ve taken the enigma that is John Lackey as my pet project this year and looked at everything from new pitches to catchers as possible reasons for struggling in 2010.

Nothing seems to give a full answer and the only solid reasoning this year was trouble with left handed batters and nibbling as seen in his Pitch f/x. June started to change that as his K/BB was 2.67 that month and hopefully a sign of better things.

July 24, 2010 Troy Patterson