Red Sox Make It a Pair Against the Rockies
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The Red Sox' bullpen inherits a slim lead from Curt Schilling and carries Boston to a 2-1 victory Thursday and a 2-0 lead in the World Series over the Colorado Rockies.
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DENVER - Trips to Boston serve as fitting bookends to the story that is Aaron Cook . Last week he joined the Rockies at Fenway Park for Games 1 and 2 of the World Series, and certainly that visit was a reward for the perseverance he has shown in his career.
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The weather was sunny and warm, and the Boston Red Sox were in town for Game 1 of the American League Championship Series to play the New York Yankees -- arguably the greatest rivalry in sports history.
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The Giants and Rockies played five innings of one-run ball Wednesday night as lefties Kirk Rueter and Joe Kennedy put on an uncharacteristic high-altitude pitchers&#39; duel at Coors Field.
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Jeff Francis struck out a career-best nine in seven solid innings, and Matt Holliday homered and drove in three runs to lead the Colorado Rockies past the New York Yankees, 6-1, last night in Denver.
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The spark is back. Johnny Damon ignited the Red Sox last night with his left-field double in the first inning off Woody Williams that put the team on its way to an 11-9 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 1 of the World Series.
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Todd Helton's two-run double off the wall in the fifth inning sparked the Colorado Rockies past the Atlanta Braves 6-4 on a wet and chilly Friday night at Coors Field.
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Vinny Castilla reached 300 career homers and 1,000 RBIs with two of Colorado&#39;s five home runs Monday night, and the Rockies hammered the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-2.
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There was brief confusion at Fenway Park last night. Under clearing October skies, a streaking Comet Holmes, and a Jackie Gleason moon, the Red Sox actually trailed the Colorado Rockies, 1-0, for three innings, and some bandwagon newcomers did not know what to think.
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The staff of The Times covers the first game as the Colorado Rockies face the Red Sox in Boston.
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With a win over the Colorado Rockies, the Boston Red Sox become the first team to win two championships since 2000.
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How's this for a streak, Colorado? In the World Series opener, the Boston Red Sox sent nine consecutive batters to the plate without making an out.
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Shawn Estes pitched seven solid innings and had two hits, and J.D. Closser hit his first major league homer in the Colorado Rockies' 8-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Saturday night.
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Embarrassment? No, Todd Helton wouldn't go that far in describing the Rockies' 13-1 pratfall against the Red Sox in Game 1 of the World Series Wednesday night at Fenway Park. Still, it wasn't quite the showing the Rockies, coming off an eight-day layoff, had in mind for the first World Series contest in franchise history.
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Hardly anyone in baseball this season has made routine defense look, well, routine, like the Colorado Rockies and the Boston Red Sox.
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Boston's Tim Wakefield allows four hits over eight innings as the Red Sox edge the Rockies, 2-1, on Tuesday.
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Garrett Atkins goes 3-for-5 with a grand slam and Josh Beckett loses for the first time of 2007 as the Colorado Rockies beat the Boston Red Sox, 7-1.