Archive for the "Hideki Okajima" category

 

Down the stretch they come?!?

 

Can we call it a race now?

Hideki Okajima has been spectacular, but he and his bullpen mates have been some of the only bright spots of late.
Boston currently leads New York by six games. Only six games. That’ll still be true tonight when the Red Sox roll into Camden Yards (for the epic “Take [...]

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The Morning After: The highs and Lo-hans

 

Thank God that West coast trip is over. You know that’s what the entire Red Sox roster was thinking on the flight back home last night.

There’s nothing low about Lohan on the beach.
While the sox are taking the afternoon off today, fans had a chance to ponder three sloppy games, two of which ended [...]

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The Morning After: A Smart win

 

Need to start today’s TMA with an admission: I’m a huge Amy Smart fan. Huge.

If Amy Smart doesn’t make you excited, you should check your pulse.
That being said, how can last night’s win be called anything but smart? Dice-K tossed a solid, stingy game; one run through six, solo shot in the seventh. And with [...]

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The Morning After: Screw wingmen

 

That was a debacle.
The Sox take an early lead. They build on it, but fail to bust the game open. They leave the Mariners slinking around, then sure enough, an infield error leads to three runs and a tie game.

How bad was last night? If the Sox had been hitting on members of the [...]

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Got Gagne, but no Dye-ing Sox … yet

 

Got ‘em.
That has to be the feeling among Sox brass this afternoon, who surreptitiously swept down and snatched up Eric Gagne from the Rangers before the deadline, stealing him away from the Yankees and Mets, both of which were in hot pursuit, among others.

Someone start getting a hat dirty, Eric Gagne is coming to Beantown.
The [...]

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Our of Left Field: More fun with Japanese media

 

Just when you thought the Daisuke Matsuzaka circus was calming down a little bit, the whole world reminds you that, well, there’s more to the world of baseball than America.

Dice-K’s loving the Pan-Pacific spotlight, even when it involves bizarre mascots.
That’s right Red Sox Nation, your Japanese contingent still sees Dice-K as a universal savior, [...]

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The Second Cup: Home sweet dome

 

OK, let me get this straight. When it looks to easy to be true it is. But then when it looks like a disaster it isn’t? Only in Tampa Bay, where there really are natural disasters in October. Or, for that matter, throughout the baseball season.

6 2/3 with four runs? Yeah, we’ll take that Jon [...]

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The Morning After: Oops, they did it again

 

Phew!
That was the collective sigh of relief from Red Sox Nation you just felt crossing the country like a cool breeze. It’s not every night you can watch Jonathan Papelbon blow a save by hanging a meatball across the plate, and still find a team incompetent enough to let you come back and steal the [...]

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The Second Cup: Bounce back Beantown

 

Now THAT’S what you call an offensive explosion!

The Coyote bit back last night in Cleveland. Throwing him a fastball? Bad call, amigos.

PROVIDENCE JOURNAL
Sox hit ‘em with both barrels - Joe McDonald leads with the huge hits from … Wily Mo Pena. In fact, he hardly touches on Manny Ramirez’s two humongous shots. But he does [...]

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The Morning After: Like Tina, Sox fight back

 

So much for the offensive napping, eh?

She’s not young, but Tina Turner can still occasionally turn heads. And she packs a punch.
The Sox struck back for 14 - count ‘em, 14 - runs at the Jake last night. And they did it against the remarkably average named Cliff Lee who was, well, remarkably average. Manny [...]

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