"Where in the world is our offense? On this road trip, we've lost 5 of 6 so far!!!! Moreover, this team has been shutout TWICE and has a one hit and two hit game to their record. This is absolutely pathetic. Ownership has $130 million plus in this team and that's what we get on a road trip. Fans must really be crazy if they think this team is good enough to win it all again." -- 5.29.08, Jonathan Norman, BDD reader
Matsuzaka Leaves Early with Injury, It's a Late Walkoff Loss for the Sox
Tuesday Night Box: Seattle 4, Boston 3 Globe: Sox Tumble in the 9th Lost in Translation: Matsuzaka Hurts Back... err Hip... err Shoulder Lugo, Tito Join Matsuzaka on the Sidelines Early as Well Notorious Sox Killer Wladimir Balentien Scores Game Winner Say It Ain't So: Is Sure-Handed Sean Casey a Defensive Liability? Did You See That Catch Coco Didn't Make? The Crawl to 500: Manny Milestone Now One HR Away, But Carefree Slugger Fails to Deliver in Crucial 8th Another Milestone: Nation Calls for Timlin to Retire for 500th Time The Sox Sure Could Have Used a Scoreless Inning from Julian Tavarez
"Even before I went up on the mound, I felt that things were a little bit off in the bullpen. I wouldn't go so far as to call it discomfort, but I wasn't at my best even before going into the game." -- 5.27.08, Daisuke Matsuzaka, through interpreter Masa Hoshino
Colon Feasts on Hapless Mariners, Sox Road Woes End for a Day
Monday Night Box: Boston 5, Seattle 3 Globe: Colon, Sox Steer Out of Road Skid Bartolodown: 7 IP, 5 Hits, 1 Run, 4 K's, 1 BB... and Now 2-0 Curt, Take Your Time Coming Back, Sincerely, Bartolo Colon 8th Wonders: Pedroia, Papi, Manny Strike Late to Break Tie ... And the Manny 500 Home Run Watch ContinueZZzzzz Papelbon Hangs On
"I felt good. At the beginning I felt more strikes, that's why I felt like I was ahead of the hitters" -- 5.26.08, Bartolo Colon, through interpreter Luis Alicea
7-Hitter for Lester! Not Nearly As Exciting as Sox Drop 7th Straight Road Game Old Foes Foulke and Embree Continue to Haunt Sox Manny-Papi Powered Offense Not Nearly Enough Is It Time for Hammerin' Jack Cust to Get Tested?
"All the positives we talked about before the season, it seemed I did the complete opposite." -- 5.25.08, Jon Lester... comes back to earth
David Or Tease: Papi's Hit Breaks Up No-Hit Bid Upside: It Was All Over in 2-Hour, 17-Minutes It's Like a Government Job: Another Day Off for Slumping Manny More on the Bright Side: Beckett Was Better
"I said, 'Those guys don't want none of me today 'cuz I'm going to pull a Lester on 'em. In the sixth inning, I was thinking, 'Did I really say that before the game?' " -- 5.24.08, Oakland's Justin Duchscherer
"My mechanics are a little off right now… it was a grind." -- 5.23.08, Tim Wakefield, after giving up a whopping 8 earned runs to the previously punchless A's
Box: Boston 11, Kansas City 8 Home Sweet Homestand: Dice-K Remains Perfect It's Been a While: First Long Ball from Drew Since April 11 Grand Scheme of Things: Mike's Got the Old Stroke Back
(Boston Globe Staff Photo / John Bohn)
Did You Know? Fmr. Sox LF David Murphy Has 31 RBIs, Manny Has 28 And How Much Did It Cost to Have to '498' Sign Guy and Crew Watch Manny Go Homerless in the Last 7 Home Games?
Another No-Hitter... for Hansen, Lopez, and MDC Over 3 to Hold KC Is Boras Giving Him the Whip or What? 'Tek Turns Into Hitting Machine Overnight Dirty Dozen Games for Manny: 8 for 45 (.178), 11 K's
Following in Lester's Footsteps, Young Justin Steps Up
Box: Sox 2, KC 1 | Masterson of His Domain Curse of the Monster Banner: Manny Still Stuck on HR No. 498 Winning in the 2nd Inning: Coco Comes Through in the Clutch Short Stints but Delcarmen and Lopez Stay Out of Trouble If Okajima Had Followed Okajima, The Runs Would Have Scored Now That's a Save: Papelbon Earns His Paycheck Tonight NESN Video: Masterson Talks About His Strong Start
"They told me to pack up the car and said it might be Pawtucket, might be Portland. So that's what I did, packed it up with my stuff and my wife."-- 5.20.08, Justin Masterson, who shall return
Box: Sweepers 11, Brewers 7 Same Old Milwaukee Pedey, Youk Punch Their All-Star Tickets with 3 Hits Each, Homer Been Caught Stealin' Once: Ellsbury Ends Pursuit of SB Record Is the '06 Beckett Back?
"Guys swung the bats well today, I just try to focus on positive things." "-- 5.18.08, Beckett after getting banged around
Sox Are Working Night and Day, Mike Lowell Leads the Way
Box: Sox 7, Brewers 6 Globe: Sox Get Down to Business Lowell Connector: 5th HR in Last 11 Games for Mike There Were Hits, Runs, and a Whole Bunch of Errors Not Today, But Someday... Hansen's Gonna Get It Done More Bloopers: Youk's Shot in the 7th Seals the Deal A League of Their Own: Sox' Interleague Mark 30-8 Since the Start of 2006 Sadly, Dr. Charles Didn't Take The Red Softball Team Jerseys with Him to LA Timlin Retires... the Brewers in Order
"It's hard to win two games." -- 5.17.08, Tito knows
Box: Sox 5, Brewers 3 Dice-K Stays Perfect at 7-0 Soup's Off: That's the Jeff Suppan We Know from '97 and '03 Is He Catching Fire? 'Tek Bangs Two Doubles, Gets Average Up Playing the 'Won't Qualify for the Batting Title' Role: Sean 'Reggie Jefferson' Casey, now batting .355 Papelbon Didn't Quite Get One Past Ryan Braun
"I want to keep winning. But I think Boston's ace is Josh Beckett." -- 5.17.08, Mr. Humble, Daisuke Matsuzaka, smiling briefly to an interpretor
Jay 'Playing Time' Payton Slams Reeling Roadsters 5 Losses in Last 6 Games for Sinking Sox
Box: Orioles 6, Sox 3 Globe: Sox Trip on Okajima's Slip Getting the Last Word In: Jay Payton Releases a Bomb on Former Team Pedroia Opens the Floodgates, But Gets a Mulligan for the Bad Hop Everyman's Base Hit: Congratulations to John Van Every Chokajima: ERA Aside, 11 of the 14 Inherited Runners Have Scored The Bus Is Gassed Up and Waiting to Take Hansen Home Bright Side: Lowell and 'Tek Drive the Ball Deep A Good Start Spoiled: Lester Deserved More
"We've been playing better than the losing. We just need to find a way to grind out a win." -- 5.14.08, Jason Varitek giving the Josh Beckett generic speech after a loss
What the #&@*! Is Wrong with Josh Beckett? And Are the Beat-Up Sox Suddenly in a Free Fall?
Box: Orioles 5, Sox 4 Globe:
Beckett Swears He Should Be Doing Better Than This Great Scott: The Bad Beckett Gets Taken Deep in Baltimore Forget All-Starting: 11 Hits to This Squad and a 4.21 ERA Won't #&@*! Cut It Deja-Lose All Over Again: 2nd Night, 3-Run 1st, Then a Big Snooze on Offense Don't Look Now But the Rays Are in the Catbird Seat in the East Another Headache for Sox: Coco's Got a Serious Tummy Ache The Sun Comes Up, the Sun Goes Down, and J.D. Drew Gets Injured Blood and Guts Ellsbury Comes Off the Bench to Answer the Call Celticitis? Sox Are 1-8 on the Road Against AL East Foes Manny Had a Good Night by the Box Score, But Killed Sox in the 7th Cora-Led Comeback in 8th Fizzles, Too
"It was a [expletive] pitch. It was right down the [expletive] middle... that's the same question he just asked... you execute pitches, you get outs, you don't execute pitches, you don't get outs (repeat over and over and over)" -- 5.13.08, the usually ornery and unusually ordinary looking non-executioner Josh Beckett
"It's tough, but you have to give the Twins credit. They have a great bullpen that pitched great, and you have to tip your hat to them... He [Twins starter Livan Hernandez] changed his speed a lot, with good location. When he's on, he's on, and he pitched great. You have to give him credit." -- 5.12.08, new Red Sox spokesperson Manny Ramirez
"That's a hard way to play the game. That's about as exciting a game as you can have and not win." -- 5.11.08, Terry Francona on coming up short
Box: Twins 9, Sox 8 Globe: Sox Can't Withstand Twins' HR Barrage It's a Horrific Night When Adam Everett Takes You Deep Not So Fast: Is Keeping the Red Hot Coco the Way to Go? Thank You So Much for Pinch Hitting While Sore Manny Kudos to the Road Warriors for the Comeback Timlin Seals the Loss
"Really, is Mike Timlin gonna be a part of this bullpen all year? First off he is old and secondly he (is lousy). Yea he helped us to two rings but at 42 and making $2.5 million per, to me its not worth it. I know he is a vet and a good clubhouse guy but if he keeps giving up runs, its time to cut ties." -- 5.11.08, BDD reader KMoney
Box: Sox 5, Twins 2 Globe: Lowrie, Red Sox Trot Past Twins Dice Breaks Dome Losing Streak: Matsuzaka Stays in the Strike Zone No Thunder, No Lightning: Papi and Manny Combine to Go 0-for-9 The Youk, The Youk, The Youk Still on Fire Maybe Coco Should Go to All-Star Game Over Ellsbury? Popcorn Save for Papelbon
"That was probably the farthest ball I've ever hit. But I haven't hit a home run in about 300 at-bats or so [actually just 114]. You kind of forget how to run around the bases. They were getting on me because I ran too slow. I kind of delayed the game about 10 minutes." -- 5.10.08, Coco Crisp on his really rare home run
(Reuters / Papelbon: Christine Hochkeppel for The Boston Globe)
Put This One On Papelbon
"It's a pretty simple game. I've got one out to get. I've got to execute a pitch with two strikes and get the job done. It's that simple. I didn't do that. I've got to get back on track in order to be able to finish my pitches and throw my pitches with confidence." -- 5.9.08, Jon Papelbon, bottom line
Box: Tigers 7, Sox 6 Globe: Sox Silenced by Lamb The Roof, The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire: 8 Straight Dome Losses for Boston Lugo's Gonna Hear It Now: Error No. 11 Negatively Affects the Game How Low Can He Go: Okajima ERA Now .053 The Uncontested Stolen Base Rears Its Ugly Head Cooler Heads Prevailed: No Motor City Meltdown for Pap Postgame Another Clean Sweep: Ellsbury Swipes One Not Lester's Best Start
"Jed Lowrie hit the ball well when he played regularly. He hits line drives and long fly balls. I do not understand why Lugo has to play every game or at all just because dumb Theo gave him a huge contract. We get many Rays games here so I had seen Lugo with Rays many times and he was the one who killed most of their rallies. Occasionally, he would hit a long fly to right that would drop in. He seems to be a pull hitter now." -- 5.9.08, BDD reader, John Walsh
"I did some good things today, I've been working on a few things the last couple weeks. I did some good things tonight. That's probably about as high praise as I'll give myself." -- 5.8.08, Josh Beckett postgame analysis
Someone Needs to Explain to Julio How It Works in Boston: “I don’t care, but sometimes it would be nice to say something positive,” he said. “But all the time it’s negative things, you know? Sometimes, you know, people should say something that’s positive. But every time it’s something negative . . . bring it up, bring it up, bring it up. Why? I understand you (the media) are going to write whatever you want . . . but I come here every day and bust my ass . . . if things don’t work out sometimes, that’s the way it’s going to be. You understand? But sometimes you bring up the same things . . . You get tired of that." -- 5.7.08, Julio Lugo to Steve Buckley, Boston Herald
Box: Tigers 10, Sox 9 Globe: Fumble Leads to Sox Loss Error No. 10: The Defensively-Challenged Shortstop Finally Costs Sox a Win 'Dustin the Win' Should Have Been the Headline Youkilis Continues to Earn His All-Star Spot Is Red-Hot Mike Lowell Writing a New Chapter on Hitting? Did Julian Tavarez Know He Might Be Working Tonight? Forgotten Play of the Day: The Strike-'Em-Throw-'Em-Out Was Outstanding Buchh Slips Up
"We fought back and we did a great job to do that. .. they put the bat on the ball, sometimes you get rewarded for that." -- 5.7.08, Terry Francona, postgame chat with Heidi Watney
"This was two heavyweights, just body punching. You know, there wasn't no finesse, no jabs, just all body punches, just all-out beat-down defensive fight." -- 5.7.08, KG on Game 1
The Only Thing Missing in Boston During Times Like These ...
Box: Red Sox 5, Tigers Zippo Globe: Wakefield's Turn to Pitch In Not Seen Since 1900: Wakefield and Timlin Get the Over-40-Only Shutout It's Been a While Boys: Dominican Dynamite Explodes Back-to-Back Scrape No. 496 Off the Fenway Banner, Manny Finally Crunches No. 497 David Ortiz Is Finally Coming Around, Maybe He Deserves An All-Star Nod Now Cash is Money, Again: .361 Hitting Catcher Hits in Clutch, Catches Tim Note to Tito the Cooler: Don't Give Manny a Day Off Now, Please Breaking News: 2 Errorless Games in a Row for Lugo
"And he threw more fastballs and curveballs than he has all season. Maybe 20-25, more fastballs than curveballs. And look at how many fastballs they swung at, maybe two or three? The rest they took for strikes. But the biggest thing, of course, was his knuckleball. Everything that came out of his hand was great." -- 5.6.08, Catcher Kevin Cash ... should he be (gulp) catching every day?
Yesterday in Detroit: Schill Plays Catch (And Somewhere in Delaware, Dr. Craig Morgan Is Curled Up in a Ball Weeping to a Sports Talk Radio Call-In Show)
"We won't know the right or the wrong here until I'm pitching... I'm close to a point in time where it's going to be a win or a loss. Somebody's going to be right, and somebody's going to be wrong." -- 5.6.08, Curt Schilling on WEEI's Dennis and Callahan
"I need to say that I have made mistakes in my personal life for which I am sorry. I have apologized to my family and apologize to my fans. Like everyone, I have flaws. I have sometimes made choices which have not been right." -- Clemens comments to the Houston Chronicle
Box: Sox 7, Rays 3 Monster Day for Youkilis Knee Needs Rest: The Big Powerless DH Takes a Day Off The Wheels Deal: The Boston Red Sox Stole 5 Bases Yesterday Does MVP Mike Lowell Start Hitting Anytime Soon? Not His Best Effort, But Lester Earns a Win How Long Can Sox Go with Delcarmen and His 7.30 ERA? Papelbon OK After 4-Out Save
"I'm sure the opponents are thrilled when one of those guys isn't in there. Then a guy like Youk steps in and gives us half our offense." -- 5.4.08, Sox manager Terry Francona
"I think he's had an uncanny ability to be unbelievably accurate. He has the ability to sometimes not move his feet - not that he didn't there - but look left, throw right, and the ball ends up where it's supposed to be. It's a pretty good play all the way around at a big juncture in the game."-- 5.3.08, Red Sox manager Terry Francona on Manny Ramírez's radar arm
Dandy Moss, Pedey, & Co. Break the Bats Out of the Cave
Box: Sox 7, Rays 3 Delayed reaction: Sox' offense pours it on Rays Alive and Stickin': 5 Extra-Base Hits in Just One Game! When It Rains It Pours Revenue for Cash-Strapped Sox: 2-Hours-and-27-Minutes of Bonus Beer Sales on a Friday Bottom Line, Buchholz Got the Win Welcome Back Big Time Dustin Pedroia Needs More Rest? Invisible Manny Goes 0-for-5, 3Ks Lopez, MDC Let Rays Back In Oki, Pap Pressed into Service
"I think it's just contagious,I've been told that since I was 8-years-old. One guy gets a hit and they all do." -- 5.2.08, Clay Buchholz said of the sudden Sox offense
Jays 1, Sox Zip Sox Score Just 3 Runs for the Series Tito the Cooler: Manny Hasn't Homered Since He Sat Down for Two Days The 496 Banner on the Monster Is Getting Cobwebs on It Wake Pitched Just Good Enough to Lose Tonight More O'fers: The Youk and Pedroia All-Star Campaigns Begin with a Whimper
Sox 2, Jays 1 A 9th Life One More Time Wells Runs Dry: Vernon's Hammer Can't Nail Manny Keeping Up with the Becketts: Dice-K Pitches in with 7-inning Gem 39 Inning Drought Ends: Papi's Pop Good for Extra Bases Coming Back to Earth? Pedroia and Youk Turn in 0-for-4's Kevin %#@! Youkilis Pulls a Live Beckett on NESN Slow-rie? Or Did the Kid Just Get a Bad Jump? The Vulture: Pap Snatches Another Win
"I didn't see that [Manny's helmet dunk], I was too busy screaming."-- Brandon Moss, who would have been the 9th inning hero if it was Manny, not Lowrie, wheeling around third
Sox razed in Tampa again > Pitching depth hits bottom > Bay reinjures hamstring; status up in air > Ortiz still not ready to elaborate on test > Yankees should be zeroed in > Matsuzaka applies some English
Sox’ Trop woes grow as Rays finish sweep > Yankees fans should think before they rip into David Ortiz > Bay hamstrung for Yankees > Looking for panic sign? > Matsuzaka now talking a different tune
Rays 6, Red Sox 4: Tampa Bay completes two-game sweep > Bopped in The Trop: Do the Sox lose consistently here because of the venue, or the opponent? > Matsuzaka's explanation in English may signal a new commitment to the Red Sox > Bay expects to miss at least two games in Yankee series because of hamstring problem > Sox bring back Paul Byrd
Time for Bombers to stand up and fight > Sox limp into showdown > Final tune-up goes smoothly > Yanks confident it will be different > Joba peaking at right time
The "Curt’s Pitch
for ALS" program is a joint effort by Curt and Shonda Schilling and The
ALS Association Mass Chapter to strike out Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
