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What Up, Yo?
2008-10-02 18:29:00 What Up, Yo? In today’s Richard Griffin mailbag, Dick answers a question about why some baseball players wear their hats in the ridiculous fashion as pictured above.
By: Mop Up Duty
Boston Red Sox News & Notes - 9/15
2008-09-15 11:59:00 This weekend could classified as a great weekend for the Boston Red Sox who took 3-of-4 from the Toronto Blue Jays. The Jays had come into the series having won 10-of-11 games and had gotten themselves into wild card contention. Now after the 3 losses this weekend, they will most likely be joining 22 other ...
By: Random Thoughts
Lester Outshines Halladay In Red Sox 4-3 Win
2008-09-14 22:59:00 Despite a little scare from Jonathan Papelbon in the 9th inning, Jon Lester outdueled Roy Halladay to help the Boston Red Sox to a 4-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in front of 37,007 at Fenway Park. The win for the Red Sox narrows the gap to just 1 game in the AL East as ...
By: Random Thoughts
Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 9/14
2008-09-14 18:54:00 Jon Lester goes in search of win #15 this afternoon for the Boston Red Sox. The Boston Red Sox look to put an end the Toronto Blue Jay’s slim playoff chances this afternoon in the finale of this 4-game set. The task of doing that falls on the left arm of Jon Lester. Lester has faced the ...
By: Random Thoughts
Boston Red Sox News & Notes - 9/14
2008-09-14 14:42:00 Yesterday’s split of the doubleheader for the Boston Red Sox only ended up costing them one game in the wild card standings as the Minnesota Twins took 2 from the Baltimore Orioles. With the Chicago White Sox rained out yesterday, the Twins moved into a virtual tie for first in the AL Central with the ...
By: Random Thoughts
How?d He Do That?
2008-09-14 06:33:00 Sometimes it’s better not to ask questions when you see a play like this. I don’t know how Boston Red Sox pitcher Bartolo Colon fielded this ball of the bat of the Blue Jays’ Alex Rios but he made the play and got the out. (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.)
By: Random Thoughts
Who Left The Banana Peel On The Field?
2008-09-14 06:31:00 As Steve pointed out in last night’s Boston Red Sox game recap, Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Scott Downs slipped and fell going to field a chopped ball off of Jacoby Ellsbury’s bat. The slip and fall would cost the Jays the game as the winning run came in to score on Ellsbury’s 20 foot single. (Please ...
By: Random Thoughts
Great Scott Blue Jays Melt Downs
2008-09-14 04:56:00 The Boston Red Sox did everything they could to give this game away early. Fortunately for them the Toronto Blue Jays did give it away late as the Toronto bullpen allowed the Sox to chip away late in the game and come away with a 7-5 come from behind win to earn a split of ...
By: Random Thoughts
Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 9/13 - Game 2
2008-09-13 23:11:00 Bartolo Colon makes his 1st start for the Red Sox since June 16th. After getting shellacked in Game 1 this afternoon against the Toronto Blue Jays, the Boston Red Sox will turn to Bartolo Colon to try and get the game back that the Jays got in the race for the AL Wild Card. Colon’s last big ...
By: Random Thoughts
Burnett?s Dominance Of Red Sox Continues In 8-1 Win
2008-09-13 22:12:00 A.J. Burnett has dominated the Boston Red Sox in his career and that trend continued this afternoon as he got 5 RBI from Travis Snider as the Toronto Blue Jays won 8-1 in front of 37,341 at Fenway Park. With the loss the Red Sox fall to 3.5 games behind the Tampa Bay Rays in the ...
By: Random Thoughts
Late Morning Red Sox Delight - 9/13 Game 1
2008-09-13 17:51:00 Paul Byrd faces a familiar foe in the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 this afternoon. The Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays are getting ready to play a day/night doubleheader at the Fens as the Red Sox look to make the Jays dreams of making playoffs just dreams and not reality. That task of helping ...
By: Random Thoughts
Boston Red Sox News & Notes - 9/13
2008-09-13 14:51:00 When you took a look at the radar last night, I figured there was no way the Boston Red Sox would be playing due to rain that was moving through New England yesterday. But with a doubleheader scheduled for today, they had to do everything possible to get the game in. I’m sure Tim Wakefield was ...
By: Random Thoughts
Wakefield Dominates Blue Jays In 7-0 Win
2008-09-13 05:27:00 In his last start, Tim Wakefield was walloped by the Texas Rangers. This time around against the Toronto Blue Jays, he was totally dominant as he threw 8 innings of 3 hit ball to help the Boston Red Sox to a 7-0 win in front of 37,398 rain soaked fans at Fenway Park. With the Tampa ...
By: Random Thoughts
Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 9/12
2008-09-12 23:01:00 Tim Wakefield looks to recover from his last start against the Texas and keep the Red Sox playoff push going in the right direction. This is a huge series this weekend for the Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays playoff hopes. The Red Sox can either bury the Blue Jays from the wild card ...
By: Random Thoughts
The Almighty Toronto Blue Jays Come in For A Tough Four Game Fenway Series
2008-09-12 10:46:00 Yes, the Toronto Blue Jays invade Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts for a four game set. They will pitch their top two, AJ Burnett and Roy Halladay, on three days rest on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Here are the remaining 2008 games with that team from Toronto...************ Fri 9/12 BOS 7:05 pmSat 9/13 BOS 12:35 pmSat 9/13 BOS 7:05 pmSun 9/14 BOS 1:35 pmFri 9/19 TOR 7:07 pmSat 9/20 TOR 1:07 pmSun 9/21 TOR 1:07 pm*************The detailed pitching matchups are right here, too... David Purcey (3-5, 5.23 ERA) vs. Tim Wakefield (8-10, 4.11) tonight A.J. Burnett (17-10, 4.31) and Jesse Listch (11-8, 3.70) vs. Paul Byrd (11-11, 4.39) and Bartolo Colon (4-2, 4.09) Saturday Roy Halladay (18-10, 2.77) vs. Jon Lester (14-5, 3.23) SundayA four game split, at least in my opinion, will be just fine, thank you. Anything less will not work that well. I think Colon will have a good outing, as will Lester. The difference is the opposing pitchers...Halladay and Burnett are two of the best ...
Dustin Pedroia Is Superman
2008-08-31 05:35:00 Back on April 29th, we had this gem of a quote from Toronto Blue Jays center fielder Vernon Wells about Boston Red Sox second basemen Dustin Pedroia. ?My goal was just to try to hit the ball back up the middle. I saw it get by him, and then I saw Superman at second base. He ...
By: Random Thoughts
Home Runs Power Red Sox Victory...Boston Red Sox 6 Toronto Blue Jays 5
2008-08-25 11:12:00 This was an exciting game! Sunday afternoon in Toronto, the Red Sox and the Blue Jays played the final game of their three game set, and Boston emerged victorious by a score of 6-5. Five of their runs came from the long ball, with Pedy Pedroia hitting a crucial three run bomb to left in the third inning off a neck high pitch from starter AJ Burnett. They scored four runs that inning, but the Blue Jays went ahead 5-4 after six. It was time for some heroics, as this game was viewed as a big one by every Sox player. And Coco Crisp delivered in the seventh with a solo home run to tie that all important score. It stayed tied as the beleagered Boston bullpen came through with five scoreless innings. Now that's priceless! And then came the eleventh, and Jed Lowrie promptly hit the game winning home run to right center. Little Manny Delcarmen relieved Jonathon Papelbon, who had breezed through the ninth and tenth innings, needing only 16 pitches. And Manny came through and the Red Sox, bat...
Thank Goodness for Scott Rolen
2008-08-06 05:50:00 Thank Goodness for Scott Rolen Scott Rolen’s weak ground out to the pitcher is turning point of last nights game.
By: Mop Up Duty
Toronto Blue Jays Statue of Liberty
2008-07-14 09:06:00 Toronto Blue Jays Statue of Liberty Spot anything wrong with this photo?
By: Mop Up Duty
Blue Jays Fans FTW
2008-07-13 10:28:00 Blue Jays Fans FTW I know we like to rag on Jays fans from time to time but this time they actually did something cool.
By: Mop Up Duty
Highway 60? 6? Revisted
2008-07-03 11:22:00 Highway 60′ 6″ Revisted Recently I have noticed Jays fans bemoaning the current bullpen with BJ blowing 3 saves in a row and Brian Tallet turning a 6-1 ballgame in the 8th into a 6-5 ballgame. Jays fans, you don’t know how good you’ve got it. Let me take you on a trip to JP Ricciardi’s ...
By: Mop Up Duty
Who Has The Best Hook In MLB?
2008-06-30 11:23:00 Who Has The Best Hook In MLB? Instead of doing what I usually do, which is tell you who has the best curve by me looking at it on SportsCentre highlights, I am going to look at the top MLB curveball-tossers and use stats to back up my argument.
By: Mop Up Duty
Toronto Blue Jays Team Batting Analysis
2008-06-21 09:28:00 Toronto Blue Jays Team Batting Analysis June 20th Lets go ahead and make this a monthly update, shall we? I delve into team and individual batting numbers.
By: Mop Up Duty
Gaston Back with the Jays
2008-06-20 18:57:00 Gaston Back with the Blue Birds Gaston Back with the Jays
By: Mop Up Duty
Former Sox Hurler Gonzalez Dies
2008-05-26 18:23:00 Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Geremi (aka Jeremi) Gonzalez died yesterday in Venezuela after being struck by lightning while on a personal watercraft at Lake Maracaibo in the western state of Zulia. “It was raining and he got down off his watercraft to grab another one,” his friend Antonio Olmos, who witnessed the incident, told the ...
By: Random Thoughts
CT Native Bagwell Reportedly Linked To PED?s
2008-05-25 17:30:00 For years Kelly Blair owner of Elite 1-on-1 fitness center in Pasadena Texas bragged that he supplied performance enhancing drugs to athletes. He even claimed to have given them to Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Killingworth CT native Jeff Bagwell who were all Houston Astros teammates in 2004 and 2005. “Kelly wanted everybody to know he ...
By: Random Thoughts
These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things
2008-05-22 19:12:00 These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things Aside from Gregg Zaun touching my hind quarters, my favourite things in life are anything associated with Gordon Ramsay and baseball. This week Drunk Jays Fans nailed them both.
By: Mop Up Duty
J.P. Arencibia Bio & Scouting Video
2008-05-19 16:00:00 J.P. Arencibia Bio & Scouting Video A bio and some exclusive scouting video of Toronto Blue Jays catching prospect J.P. Arencibia.
By: Mop Up Duty
Ballpark Review - Progressive Field
2008-05-13 19:06:00 Ballpark review of Progressive (Jacobs) Field in Cleveland. Today we would like to allow one of our readers and facebook.com members to add his two cents. Here is Tight PP’s recount of last weekend’s trip to Cleveland.
By: Mop Up Duty
Flashback - August 1990
2008-05-13 05:58:00 Flashback- August 1990 Watching the Jays this last little while reminded me of a darkness that I had buried. Unfortunatly, I woke up on the couch screaming between the Jays-Tribe double bill.
By: Mop Up Duty
Feliz Cinco De Mayo!
2008-05-05 15:58:00 Feliz Cinco De Mayo! In honour of Cinco de Mayo, I thought I would take a look at two of the big stories of last year in the Mexican League - Karim Garcia and Jose Lima. What are they up to now?
By: Mop Up Duty
The Bats Are Back In Town! YES!! Boston Red Sox 12 Toronto Blue Jays 4
2008-05-04 11:26:00 Peter here on a quiet Sunday morning, early style. Last night at Fenway Park, the Boston lumber again made its presence known in a big way as the home club banged out fifteen (!!) hits and scored twelve runs in a 12-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Josh Beckett was the recipient of the offensive output and was able to easily win the game. He went eight strong innings, allowing eight hits and four earned runs while striking out five. And so the Red Sox strong starting pitching continues to shine brightly and unrelentlessly, and as I said earlier in the week, when the bats stir to life, this club will win many games. They are in first place in the American League East right now, with Jon Lester, coming off the best start of his young career, ready to face Scott Kazmir in HIS "opening day" appearance. We have to hope he's a little rusty, a little slow and not quite ready to face a hot-hitting team. For when he is on, HE IS ON and tough to beat. But the Sox have been putting their...
Toronto Blue Jays Managerial History
2008-05-02 17:47:00 Toronto Blue Jays Managerial History With All the talk of John Gibbons pending doom here is a run down of the Jays managers. Interesting to note many Jays managers never managed other teams.
By: Mop Up Duty
Boston Red Sox News & Notes - 5/2
2008-05-02 15:00:00 Last night, the Red Sox ran into another great pitching performance by an opposing starting pitcher in A.J. Burnett. Tim Wakefield wasn’t so bad himself but what’s concerning right now is the Red Sox won 2 out of 3 games by scoring a grand total of 3 runs. I said this earlier this week. The game ...
By: Random Thoughts
Burnett, 2 Relievers Shut Down Red Sox 3-0
2008-05-02 04:45:00 A.J. Burnett and two relievers combined to give up 4 hits as the Toronto Blue Jays took the finale of a 3-game set 3-0 over the Boston Red Sox on chilly night at Fenway Park. The game actually had quite a strange ending in the bottom of the 9th. B.J. Ryan was on to try and ...
By: Random Thoughts
Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 5/1
2008-05-01 22:30:00 Balloting has gotten underway for the 2008 MLB All-Star Game to be held at Yankee Stadium. Let?s get voting to make the Boston Red Sox have a huge presence at our hated rival?s stadium. Make sure that you include Jacoby Ellsbury on your list by putting him in the write-in category. The Boston Globe has a ...
By: Random Thoughts
Boston Red Sox News & Notes - 5/1
2008-05-01 15:00:00 For the 4th start in a row, the Boston Red Sox got some great pitching from their starter on the mound. And for the second night in a row, they won the game with a walk-off single. Last night’s hero was Jason Varitek who brought in Manny Ramirez from second base. The hero could have ...
By: Random Thoughts
Déjà Vu: Walk-Off Single Wins It Again for the Red Sox
2008-05-01 04:56:00 Last night, Kevin Youkilis was the hero with the walk-off single. Tonight, the hero was Jason Varitek as his single with 2 out in the 9th inning brought home Manny Ramirez to give the Boston Red Sox a 2-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in front of yet another sold-out crowd at the Fens. ...
By: Random Thoughts
Yea I?d Hit It
2008-05-01 04:25:00 Can you blame Roger Clemens for bustin’ a few inside on Mindy McCready?
By: Random Thoughts
Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 4/30
2008-04-30 23:30:00 “My goal was just to try to hit the ball back up the middle. I saw it get by him, and then I saw Superman at second base. He made a great play and the rest is history.” - Vernon Wells Cue the Superman Theme. Download audio file (Free-Loops.com-868443839.mp3)- It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Super Pedroia Lineups ...
By: Random Thoughts
Boston Red Sox News & Notes - 4/30
2008-04-30 12:53:00 While I was watching last night’s Boston Red Sox game, I kept saying to myself “here we go again”. What I mean by this is that the Red Sox are getting great pitching from a starting pitcher only to probably have it wasted because the bats are as cold as the chill that’s running through ...
By: Random Thoughts
Youkilis Wins It In The 9th
2008-04-30 04:27:00 Before I get into any recap here, I have to say that was one of the best games I’ve seen in a long time. An absolutely brilliant pitching performance by Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester and an equally good one from Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay. Kevin Youkilis drove in David Ortiz from second ...
By: Random Thoughts
Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 4/29
2008-04-29 22:11:00 Balloting has gotten underway for the 2008 MLB All-Star Game to be held at Yankee Stadium. Let’s get voting to make the Boston Red Sox have a huge presence at our hated rival’s stadium. Make sure that you include Jacoby Ellsbury on your list by putting him in the write-in category. Bryan Corey is having a ...
By: Random Thoughts
Blue Jays @ Red Sox Pitching Matchups: 4/29-5/1
2008-04-28 20:00:00 Tuesday, April 29th @ 7:05 PM Roy Halladay (R) (2-3, 3.73) vs Jon Lester (L) (1-2, 5.40) TV: NESN, MLB.tv Radio: Red Sox Radio Network, MLB Game Day Audio Wednesday, April 30th @ 7:05 PM Dustin McGowan (R) (1-2, 4.18) vs Daisuke Matsuzaka (R) (4-0, 3.14) TV: NESN, MLB.tv Radio: Red Sox Radio Network, MLB Game Day Audio Thursday, May 1st @ 7:05 ...
By: Random Thoughts
Thoughts on Hill/Rios Signing + Thomas Release
2008-04-28 15:08:00 Recently myself and fellow Mop Up Duty writer Early have been going back and forth some of the recent Toronto Blue Jays news. I decided to answer his questions out in the open. Here we go…
By: Mop Up Duty
Toronto Blue Jays, Now With Less Hurt
2008-04-20 19:38:00 The Toronto Blue Jays released disgruntled designated hitter Frank Thomas this afternoon, several days after deciding that he wouldn’t be a regular in their line-up anymore. Thomas was unhappy with that decision and made sure the team knew about it, so they made the decision to part ways. The initial reaction to this ...
By: The RotoFeed
Late Morning Red Sox Delight - 4/20
2008-04-20 17:45:00 The Boston Red Sox won’t be playing any night baseball for the next two days. Today’s game starts at 1:35 PM, hence the reason why the normal afternoon post is earlier than normal. Then tomorrow on Patriots Day and Boston Marathon day, they will start at 11:05 AM. The latest Red Sox Nation ad is out ...
By: Random Thoughts
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