Late Night with Pablo Sandoval
Each of these late-night, west coast contests are like three games in one to me. There’s the first three innings, for which I’m wide awake, …
Each of these late-night, west coast contests are like three games in one to me. There’s the first three innings, for which I’m wide awake, …
My pal Marianne, a long-time friend of SG, proud Baltimore native and Orioles blogger, is leveraging baseball to help her home city heal from recent …
I, too, am old enough to remember the likes of Dwight Evans and have worshipped the false gods of Todd Benzinger and Joe Hesketh. …
I am old enough to remember seeing Yaz and Dewey play. To remember collapsing in a heap on the floor when the ball went through …
My Doctor and I have an agreement. I promise not to let the Red Sox push me to apoplectic seizures and he pretends I might …
Last night’s Red Sox win was everything we needed exactly when we needed it. A starter — in this case, Rick Porcello — actually going …
Well, baseball sort of goes on. For the first time in history, two Major League teams played a game in front of zero fans. …
Any night in which the Red Sox can only muster three hits and Allen Craig gets one of them is not gonna end well. So …
A long time ago, way before the Red Sox started winning championships…they really sucked. They would come out of the gate hot, but fade …
Here’s the most important takeaway from last night’s game: the Red Sox won on a walk-off single by their number eight hitter who is hitting …
At this point, there’s nothing about Mookie Betts that surprises us. So when the guy robbed Bryce Harper of a home run with a Dewey-esque …
Half the line-up hitting under .200? Defense that almost begs to be accompanied by the Benny Hill theme music? Injury-prone folks like Teixeira and Ellsbury …
Last night, as the Sox/Yanks game hit the halfway mark, I looked at my watch and realized we’d only been playing for little more than …
So the first installment of this national nightmare we call interleague play is over, with the red Sox taking 2 of 3 from the Phillies. …
Let it be known that my first heart attack of this young Red Sox season came at 9:33pm on April 8, 2015. That’s when Hanley …
Moments after the Red Sox stomped the Phillies to kick off the 2015 campaign, the team announced they’d signed Rick Porcello — the same Rick …
Gotta love the way Hanley Ramirez just toys with opposing teams. Early in the game he’s just goofin’ around, waltzing around the dugout with David …
We may look back on Red Sox Opening Day 2015 as the day Clay Buchholz became an ace. I know, I know, we’ve seen …
You can blame all of this on a train ride. Over a decade ago, in October of 2003 to be precise, I was on a …
First things first, my track record for Red Sox pre-season prognostication is dismal. For every one time I’m spot on (I once got taken to …
The World Champion 2013 Red Sox had the celebratory beard tug. In 2015, they’ve got… whatever the hell this is: Honestly, it doesn’t look like …
So far, spring training’s been bringing us a lot of downers. Vazquez is lost, Kelly’s arm is buggy, Koji’s starting the season on the DL …
Denton here. One week away from Opening Day and I’ve decided to come out of my cave. My decision to embrace the whole hibernation …
When we signed Justin Masterson in the offseason, we knew we’d be getting a reliable number three or four starter who’s good for about 200 …
The story on Christian Vazquez got a little bit bleaker today, with the Red Sox putting their strapping young catcher on the 60-day DL. To …
The news that Clay Buchholz has been officially named the Opening Day starter for the Red Sox was hardly a surprise? Who else was gonna …
So far, this year’s spring training has been a pretty routine mix of awesome and zany, from Mookie knocking baseballs all over Florida to Victorino …
…when it comes to tackling Ultron, the New York Yankees, and other threats to humanity.
Before the Sox started winning World Series, we fans clung tenaciously to what meager triumphs we were afforded: Pedro kicking Yankee arse in one game …
Much of my winter was spent shoveling snow, drinking myself comatose and waiting for the seemingly inevitable news that the Red Sox were trading Mookie …
We’re less than one week into the grapefruit games and I know the importance of keeping things in perspective. Shit, last year around this time …
It’s tough to accurately assess a baseball team after the first month of the regular season let alone one measly spring training game. I think …
“2015 is all about the Rod.”
Because we are romantics at heart. And cheap shits, too.
Let me explain. I grew up in the ’80s in a baseball household. The Red Sox were my dad’s religion, and that’s how he raised …