Boston Red Sox News & Notes – 6/17
soxanddawgs.com 6/17/2009 — Tim Wakefield did what he does last night and the Boston Red Sox offense did what it does when Wake is pitching, give him run support, as they went on to an 8-2 win over the Florida Marlins. You could say David Ortiz was the hero last night or you can say that Nick Green was the hero last ...

Boston Red Sox News & Notes – 6/18
soxanddawgs.com 6/18/2009 — The Boston Red Sox became just the fourth team in professional sports to have at least 500 consecutive sellouts last night and they treated their fans to a 6-1 win among other things. Tim Wakefield, Jason Varitek and David Ortiz are the only members of the Red Sox to still be on the team ...

Boston Red Sox News & Notes – 6/20
soxanddawgs.com 6/20/2009 — It was a battle of two countrymen last night as Kenshin Kawakami and Daisuke Matsuzaka squared off on the mound at Fenway Park. In the end, it was Kawakami and the Atlanta Braves who walked off the field with an 8-2 win over Matsuzaka’s Red Sox. Dice-K once again struggled on the mound ...

Boston Red Sox News & Notes – 7/1
soxanddawgs.com 7/1/2009 — The Boston Red Sox had a 9-1 lead going into the bottom of the 5th when the skies opened up causing a rain delay of an hour and eleven minutes. Nearly two hours later, the Baltimore Orioles were walking off the field with an 11-10 win. John Smoltz started the game out for the Red Sox and ...

Boston Red Sox News & Notes – 7/7
soxanddawgs.com 7/7/2009 — It turned out to be a very emotional night at Fenway Park on Monday as Nomar Garciaparra made his first trip back since being traded back in 2004 at the trade deadline. The Boston Red Sox happened to be on the road in Minnesota when Garciaparra found out he was traded to the Chicago Cubs. ...

Boston Red Sox News & Notes – 7/27
soxanddawgs.com 7/27/2009 — The Baltimore Orioles came into yesterday’s game having lost 11 straight games to the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. By the end of the afternoon, Nick Markakis had lifted his Orioles to a 6-2 win to snap the skid. The Red Sox had to face another rookie pitcher in David Hernandez and ...

Boston Red Sox News & Notes – 6/22
soxanddawgs.com 6/22/2009 — On July 2, 2004, Nick Green hit a walk-off home run for the Atlanta Braves to beat the Boston Red Sox in extra innings. Fast forward to June 21, 2009 when Green hit the walk-off home run to beat his former club to help the Red Sox take 2-of-3 this weekend. The Red Sox now sit four games ahead ...

Boston Red Sox News & Notes – 7/21
soxanddawgs.com 7/21/2009 — Early on last night in Arlington, TX, it looked like John Smoltz was going to shutdown the Texas Rangers. Then they erupted for five runs in the 6th inning off of the 42-year-old Boston Red Sox pitcher on their way to a 6-3 win. Last night’s outing for Smoltz was going to really tell us ...

Boston Red Sox News & Notes – 6/19
soxanddawgs.com 6/19/2009 — The Boston Red Sox and Florida Marlins fell victim to the weather last night and it allowed the Marlins to swim out of town with a 2-1 win. Given the fact the Red Sox knew the forecast, they probably shouldn’t have played this game last night. Almost the entire game was played with ...

Red Sox Starting Rotation: Recipe for Success
sportsofboston.com 6/29/2009 — We all witnessed John Smoltz’s debut to the Red Sox Thursday night in the final game of the series against the Washington Nationals, and it wasn’t pretty. At least, not in the first inning. But after his nerves seemed to settle down, so did the pitching. In the four and a half innings that ...

Red Sox-Nationals Scouting Report — Red Sox & MLB - BostonHerald.com 6/23/2009
Red Sox-Nationals Scouting Report AT NATIONALS PARK TONIGHT - RHP Brad Penny (6-2, 4.94 ERA) vs. LHP John Lannan (4-5, 3.38). TV - NESN. Radio -...

Diasuke Matsuzaka's Dice (K) Are Not Rollin' — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/23/2009
Diasuke Matsuzaka stunk it up again Friday night against the Braves and in affect pitched himself out of the Red Sox rotation. The Sox announced Saturday that Dice K would not make his next scheduled start, which would have come Thursday.   ...

Do Nationals Have Edge Over Red Sox in Starting Pitching? — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/23/2009
The Red Sox will try to cool down the red-hot Washington Nationals this week, as the District gets ready to welcome a club with whom they hold a surprisingly large fan base. What’s shocking about this series, however, is that while the Sox ...

Here Come the Sawks — Nationals Journal 6/23/2009
Nationals Park might be sold out tonight. But it will not be because of the home team. Folks in Nationals Park are already talking about the influx of Boston fans expected at tonight's game. How many will show up? Are they really that rowdy? Also, ...

Smoltz sees pattern in Kasten's work — Major League Baseball News 6/23/2009
Red Sox right-hander John Smoltz worked for Nats team president Stan Kasten for 15 years as a member of the Braves, and sees Kasten rebuilding his squad with young pitchers.