Even sloppy Sox are too much
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BOSTON -- Doug Mientkiewicz, who was obtained recently to bolster the Boston Red Sox for their playoff run, usually is a first baseman, good enough to win a Gold Glove with the Minnesota Twins in 2001.
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Lose the choreography and dial back the frivolity. Thatâs my advice for the Mets as they resume the season. The Yankees, on the other hand, could use a bit of strut.
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ST. LOUIS -- The Boston Red Sox committed eight errors in the first two games of the World Series, setting a record for fielding futility, and their defensive alignment will actually get worse tonight.
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You forget about Mark Bellhorn. He lulls you to sleep with those droopy eyes and that droopy hair and his insistence on examining every pitch as though it is a rare piece of art. He'll drive you crazy, this second baseman, who takes and takes and takes pitches until he either walks or strikes out. Or hits incredible clutch home ...
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BOSTON Go figure this World Series. An old maxim in baseball is you always give away more runs with shoddy defense than you gain with torrid bats.
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What on earth is wrong with the Yankees? I&#39;m not talking about their woeful pitching or their erratic offense. I&#39;m talking about their demand that MLB award them a win by forfeit because the Devil Rays were
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Mike Lowell looked at the tape from the Red Sox' series against the Giants last weekend. He didn't like what he saw.
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DENVER, Sept. 9 -- Lost in the morass of errors in Friday night's 11-8 loss to the Colorado Rockies -- there were six, tying a Washington Nationals franchise record -- was another form of sloppy baseball, and it came from the arms of their pitchers.
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The Cleveland Indians have been inconsistent during the first two months of the season. It got them to .500.
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Not even another homer by Big Papi could make up for Boston's awful outfield defense.
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What a difference a week makes. Two debates. Two games. Two wins. The Yankees sure are looking tough. A week ago the Boston Red Sox looked like world beaters, or at least Yankee-beaters.
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Forget all the nonsense in the stands. The baseball is what matters. Let the Red Sox fans jeer Alex Rodriguez. Let them wear the blond wings and scream "Mine!" every time a pop fly is hit in his direction and rhythmically chant "A-Rod, A-Rod" when he's facing Jonathan Papelbon with two away and an 0-2 count in the ninth inning ...
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You did it again, didn't you? You fell into the trap that these fun-loving, baseball-bashing Red Sox set for you. You became so enamored with their irreverence and their pizazz and their long hair and their long-ball capabilities, you actually convinced yourself they were better than the New York Yankees.
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There's much frustration in David Ortiz's eyes and voice these days. He's been forced to contend with the shift teams constantly deploy against him (though the Devil Rays used a conventional alignment last night in the first inning), the ball-and-strike calls he hasn't agreed with, and his sore hamstrings. There's the fact that he sees only one or two pitches ...
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As the shuffling of players intensifies this off-season, some of the Boston Red Sox' pictures will come down. The champions will have to change.
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Before, it was a nuisance. Now, it has become a downright menace to the Yankees.
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PARDON me if the subject is still too raw for some to contemplate at this moment, but here&#39;s a question about the Curse of the Bambino, a phenomenon that, it seems, came up more than once in the past week.