Archives: April, 2006

Turn back into a pumpkin all ready!

Way to welcome me back to Fenway big guy…  The game was over almost before it was done, although the Sox bats didn’t do much to bail Wells out.  Hopefully he’ll do better on Monday.  On the plus side, the Sox continue to play excellent defense, and Dustin Mohr hit a home run in his [...]

Coco Crisp just signed a contract extension with Red Sox. He would have been under control anyway, but this avoids arbitration/year-to-year contract negotiations. The extension contains a $1 million signing bonus and salaries of $3.5 million in 2007, $4.75 million in 2008 and $5.75 million in 2009. The club option for 2010, which [...]

Sox open up the house the way it should be opened, by beating the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3. Didn’t get to see most of the game cuz I’m trying to get the work out of the way before I go to tomorrow’s game. Josh Beckett’s first inning struggles continue, but fortunately his late [...]

Theo & Co. just announced that David Ortiz has signed a four-year contract extension, with a club option for 2011. No word yet on dollar figures, but the gossip queens say it’s in the neighborhood of 4 years @ $12 mil/per. Apparently Peter Gammons is saying it’s $50M for 4 years. Until [...]

Boston Red Sox : Official Info : Press Release:
“Coco has a non-displaced fracture at the base of his left index finger,” said [Red Sox Medical Director Dr. Thomas] Gill. “He will be placed in a splint for 10 days and reevaluated at that time. Once sufficient healing has occurred, Coco can begin batting and return [...]

Looks like Tim Wakefield and Josh Bard ironed out whatever problems cropped up last time in Texas. Wake had an excellent outing, going six innings and allowing only one run (unearned) in the first. Wake ended his night by striking out three straight to get out of a 1st and 3rd jam with [...]

I unfortunately haven’t had a chance to watch much of the last two games (it being campus preview weekend around here), but you’ve gotta like what we’ve seen of Schilling so far. I think he will have a great year, and it’s looking like Paps will do the same. When (not if) Foulke [...]

It would, perhaps, be remiss of me to not mention Bronson Arroyo’s first outing with the Reds. (Much as it was remiss to not bring up the fact that he was traded! These things happen at the start of the semester O:-)) Cornrows went 1-for-1 with a home run, a walk, and [...]

Whew… a lot to talk about, and I only saw the first and last inning! (Blasted lab…) Let’’s get right to it.

The thing everyone is buzzing about is the choice of Papelbon to close out the game, but first let’s talk about Beckett. At the start the of the game, he really [...]