Red Sox Win Opener

The Boston Red Sox looked strong as they won their season opener with the Oakland Athletics 6-5. The trip was a bit of a commute for Red Sox fans, given that the game was played in Tokyo at 6:00 AM Boston time. Most fans didn't make the trip, finding it difficult to even climb out of bed and find their war to the Cask 'n Flagon, a bar near Fenway Park.

Red Sox Win

The Boston Red Sox got off to a quick start in the spring season by beating hapless Boston College 24-0. The game took place at Fort Myers, Florida. Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz both hit doubles in the second inning as the Sox scored eight runs. The Sox scored nine runs in the fifth inning.

Josh Beckett vanquished all six batters that he faced, striking out four. Manny Delcarmen retired all three of the hitters he faced, striking out two.

Rox Fall

Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell just hit a home run over the left-field fence, making the score 3-0 in favor of Boston in Game 4 of the World Series. With the Red Sox leading the series three games to zip, it's hard to believe that the Rockies are the best team the National League could send to the party.

Even the Cubs could have put on a better show. Regardless of anything, the Cubs can always do something memorable--fall down, break two bats at once--something. Who created the myth that the Rockies are anything more than a pile of rocks?

Red Sox Take Game Two

Boston Red Sox pitching smothered Colorado Rox hitters in Game 2 of the 2007 World Series. Curt Schilling, who is supposed to be too old for a major-league pitcher, gave up four hits and one run over 5 1/3 innings. He walked two and struck out four.

Hideki Okajima then frustrated the Rox for 2 1/3 innings, giving up no hits, no runs, and no walks while striking out four. With two out in the 8th inning, closer Jonathan Papelbon gave up a single to Matt Holliday. He then destroyed Rox hopes by picking off Holliday at first.

Game 3 will start at 7:00 PM Saturday in Denver.

Red Sox Destroy Rox

In the first game of the 2007 World Series, Josh Beckett and the rest of the Boston Red Sox made the Colorado Rockies look like what they are, a minor-league team that should never have left the Texas League. All the money in the reactionary Coors family could not prevail over the Red Sox, America's patriotic favorites.

Josh Beckett struck out nine and allowed one run over seven innings as Boston mangled the Rockies 13-1 in the series opener. Dustin Pedroia got things going for the Sox by hitting one out of the yard in the first Boston at-bat. You can't help feeling sorry for the over-matched Denver players, but when you work for the Coors family billionaires, that's what you get.

Someone at the Murdox Australian Fox TV Network forgot to tell the announcers to root for the Rox. They called a good game.

World Series 2007

The 2007 World Series is underway, and Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett just struck out the side. The Rockies may win, but it will take a miracle. The Coors Boys played OK against second-rate teams in the National League, but the Boston Red Sox are an unstoppable machine.

Boston can and will hurt you at bat, running the bases, fielding, and on the mound. With Beckett pitching, Colorado's chances are zero and none.

It's the bottom of the first, and the Sox lead 3-0 with two out.

Boston-Cleveland Bug Match

The Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians are locked in a duel to the finish in the American League Championship Series (AKA part 2 of the playoffs). The two teams have identical win-loss records of 96-66 in the regular season, and both have records of 1-1 in the ALCS. Both teams can't play in the World Series. What will happen? I have no idea.

I do know that if the bugs return from Lake Erie to Jacobs Field for game 3, many ballplayers may be driven over the edge. In the sort of restrained way that Boston pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka talks about matters of this sort, he said, "If there were those bugs, it would be difficult to maintain concentration." That's a discreet way of saying that both pitchers might want to build a bonfire somewhere in the vicinity of second base.

If you have tickets for the game at Cleveland, you might make some spare change if you smuggled a box of bug spray into Jacobs Field.

Beckett Destroys Angels

Boston pitcher Josh Beckett overwhelmed the Los Angeles Angels Wednesday in the first game of their best-of-five series. At one point Beckett retired 19 batters in a row. Beckett's record in the regular season was 20-7. The Red Sox won 4-0.

Kevin Youkilis and David Ortiz provided the offensive muscle for the Red Sox. Youkilis hammeded a solo homer over the Green Monster in the first inning. Ortiz lofted a two-run homer in the third inning.

Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox continue to dominate the Eastern Division of the American League. The torrid pace of the New York Yankees has now cooled, and the Yankees trail the Red Sox by five games.

The Red Sox take on the Los Angeles Angels tonight at 7:05 at Fenway Park. Curt Schilling will be on the mound for Boston. He has a record of 6-5 and an ERA of 4.06.

Jered Weaver will pitch for the Angels. Weaver has a record of 8-5 and an ERA of 3.85.

Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox have the appearance of an unstoppable baseball machine. Last Monday, the editorial staff of New Moon went to Fenway Park, where the Red Sox demolished Tampa Bay.

Admittedly, Tampa Bay doesn't really look like a major-league team, but it does win an occasional game.

Tim Wakefield held Tampa Bay hitless for six innings before giving up a ground-ball single to right. He pitched eight full innings, giving up two hits, two walks, and no runs. At forty years of age, Wakefield can still drive batters crazy with his knuckle ball.

Jonathan Papelbon closed the ninth inning. His typical fastball travels 97 miles per hour. Occasionally, it drops to 95.

The Yankees might catch the Red Sox, but don't bet your last dollar on it.

Red Sox Stagger

The editorial staff of New Moon is presently visiting Boston, where the Red Sox have staggered through June and into July. After demolishing all opposition early in the season, the Red Sox initiated a Bean Town version of the June Swoon.

Today, July 1, the Red Sox showed little of the spirit that moved the American Revolutionaries to cast off the yolk of English oppression, an event we will all celebrate July 4. This rebellion began here in Boston, so patriots in these parts want something good to happen in July.

Anyone who wants to celebrate a Red Sox victory on July 4 may find it a very sad event if things go as they did today. The Texas Range Boys came to Fenway this afternoon, and they thoroughly muddied the Bean Boys. We need an immediate change in direction if Independence Day is to be a happy event this year for Sox Loyalists.