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Year One for ABS Challenges
Read story →: Year One for ABS ChallengesMajor Leaguers made over 10,000 ABS challenges in this first year of its use. It was a little rocky in the beginning, but by the time the postseason rolled around, players were getting the most from their latest tool.
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On to the Angels
The West Coast road trip brings the Red Sox to 3 games against the Angels now, the club with 2nd-best home record in baseball at 38-21, though they’re 5-5 for their last 10, including losing their last 3 vs the…
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Redefining comfortable lead
In a season when it’s hard to imagine a new low, the Red Sox on Sunday night seemed to redefine it once again. For the second game in a row the Red Sox offense put up 3 early runs only…
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Jon Lester
How absolutely incredible to think that 274 days ago we celebrated a World Series Championship and now we’re on the verge of trading away the club’s best pitcher. Jon Lester made his MLB debut and 15 starts with the Red…
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Red Sox hopes for a winning month dashed
Turn about is fair play: A week ago the Red Sox beat the Blue Jays 14-1 and on Monday Toronto returned the favor with an ugly, 14-hit, 14-run drubbing at Fenway Park. It marked the 100th time Toronto has had…
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Ortiz’ HR milestones
With a home run Sunday, David Ortiz became just the second Red Sox player in history with 10+ seasons of 25 or more home runs. Only Ted Williams had more such seasons (14) between 1939 and 1960. Ortiz’ 10 years of 25…
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Championship failures
While we may not have reasonably expected back-to-back World Series championships, I think few fans would have anticipated a 47-53 record (.470) after 100 games for the defending champs. That got me thinking about how clubs have done the season…
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State of the nation:
100 games in the booksWhile your correspondent never counted on back-to-back World Series victories, I also didn’t anticipate embarrasment, either, languishing here in the last place of the division with 62% of the season behind us. With one hundred games in the books, here’s a…
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Previewing the weekend series vs the Astros
The season has already taught us that you can’t count your chickens before they’re hatched. Sometimes it has looked like we were about to face a weak opponent only to have them rise up to perform as superstars, if only for a…