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Guillermo Moscoso’s name sounds like he should be an executive chef at a Michelin three-star restaurant or an avant-garde choreographer debuting his work at Masdanza. Instead of those lofty professions this Moscoso faced off against Jon Lester on a slick, muddy mound in the opening game of a day-night doubleheader. The Red Sox scored in each inning they faced Moscoso. In the first inning Marco Scutaro knocked the ball off the top of the scoreboard, a ricochet that allowed the shortstop to advanced to second base. Safe at second, safe and secure with Dunkin Donuts newest Coolatta flavor, Minty Mantis. Scutaro advanced to third base on Adrian Gonzalez’s ground out and scored on Dustin Pedroia’s sharp grounder off the left field stands. Cliff Pennington pursued the ball into shallow left field and fired to Jemile Weeks just in time to swipe tag Pedroia. Pedroia’s quick reaction time often allow him to evade such tags, but Weeks seems to have similarly honed his reflexes. Gonzalez led off the third with a double off the wall. Pedroia followed up with a five-pitch walk and both scored on David Ortiz’s liner to left-center. The Red Sox second baseman missed the plate on his...
Game 162: October 4, 2009 Indians7L: Tomo Ohka (1-5)65-97, 5 game losing streak Red Sox12W: Michael Bowden (1-1)95-67, 4 game winning streak Highlights: Bowden, he of the bizarre delivery, attained his first major league win in 2009 in the last game of the regular season. He entered the game after Ramon Ramirez took over following Clay Buchholz’s disastrous five-run third inning. Boston countered with five runs in the sixth inning: Jed Lowrie lofted his first grand slam in the majors and J.D. Drew launched his second homer of the game. In his six seasons as Red Sox field manager Terry Francona has a record of 95 wins or better five times. “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” This line from the Grateful Dead song “Truckin’” is overused by a portly ESPN anchor, but it is an appropriate sentiment for 2009. January 8th: Rocco Baldelli inked $500,000 one-year contract. He wears 5, the first player to do so since Nomar Garciaparra. 9th: Brady Penny deal ($5M for one year with $3M in incentives) officially announced.Mark Kotsay re-signed to a one-year $1.5M contract. 10th: Takashi Saito signed for $1.5M with performance and roster bonuses. 12th: Jim Rice voted into the National...
Game 18: April 26, 2009 Yankees1L: Andy Pettitte (2-1)9-9, 3 game losing streak Red Sox4W: Justin Masterson (2-0)H: Hunter Jones (1)H: Michael Bowden (1)S: Takashi Saito (2)12-6, 10 game winning streak Highlights: The all-time tiebreaker between these teams was played last night. Going into Sunday night the head-to-head record stood at 446-446 with 4 ties. Boston now leads the series, 447-446-4. What a game, what a series, what a streak. Jones pitched ⅔ of an inning perfectly; he struck out a batter and didn’t allow his two inherited runners score. Bowden, who debuted last year, pitched two perfect innings with two strikeouts. Most of the time I watch a game at home on television I instant message with a few other rabid fans, including one of my closest friends. The moment we saw Jacoby Ellsbury make an outright steal of home he wrote, “I saw Billy Hatcher do that at Fenway.”On August 3, 1992, Hatcher swiped home from under the nose of Juan Guzman of the Blue Jays in the bottom of the third. Hatcher had just been traded from the Reds about a month before. He told me that for the rest of the game the park was crackling...
Game 135: August 30, 2008 White Sox 2 L: Mark Buehrle (11-11) 76-59, 3 game losing streak Red Sox 8 W: Michael Bowden (1-0) 79-56, 2 game winning streak Highlights: The left field pavilion seats are among the best seats under $100 in the park. I highly recommend snagging tickets in this section if they are available. Last night the weather was perfect despite the warnings of passing showers or even thunderstorms. The late August game had a perfect combination of summer conditions and playoff implications. Both Sox teams have their division championships within reach and, if they are not successful in that, the wild card would be their only other option.Into this turbulent playoff picture entered Michael Bowden, a 21-year old pitcher whom the Red Sox drafted out of high school in 2005. That draft has already yielded Clay Buchholz, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Jed Lowrie (as well as Craig Hansen, who was packaged with Brandon Moss to bring Jason Bay to Boston). Bowden was the 47th overall pick was compensation for losing Derek Lowe to free agency.I sat next to a fan who was scoring the game and had an iPhone through which he accessed SoSH and other...
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