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Josh Beckett lost an early lead, and then was undone by a seventh-inning wild pitch as the Sox fell for the fifth time in six games.
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The Red Sox suffered their fifth loss in six games Wednesday night, falling to the Rangers 5-3 and dropping below .500 yet again.
For the second straight night the Red Sox actually managed to take an early lead. A first-and-third, no outs situation in the first would only result in the one run as Dustin Pedroia grounded into a double play, but with Beckett managing to hold the Rangers down in the bottom of the inning, it was a welcome change to the standard order of events in opening innings.
While Josh Beckett would waver over the next couple of innings, loading the bases in the third, he would manage to preserve the lead headed into the fourth, where Derek Holland gave Will Middlebrooks something to hit inside. The third baseman turned on the offering, and made it 2-0 with his twelfth homer of the season.
Unfortunately, the bottom of the inning would prove Beckett's undoing. A pair of early doubles quickly got the Rangers on the board, and a single and squeeze play would bring in the tying run. With a bloop dropping into right field despite a sliding attempt from Cody Ross, the Rangers took a 3-2 lead.
Dustin Pedroia would get the Sox back into things with a solo shot in the sixth, but the tie would not last long. Facing his seventh inning, Beckett plunked Elvis Andrus with one out and then gave up a single to Adrian Beltre, allowing Andrus to reach third. All it took from there was one pitch in the dirt and past Kelly Shoppach to give the Rangers the lead. A Nelson Cruz homer off of Matt Albers in the eighth extended the lead to 5-3, where Joe Nathan would hold it with a 1-2-3 ninth.
|Final - 7.25.2012
|Boston Red Sox
|Texas Rangers
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The Red Sox and Rangers are set to wrap up their series with a rubber match in game three. We'll keep you up-to-date on all the action as it goes down in Rangers Ballpark.
Rangers 5, Red Sox 3, End 8th -- Matt Albers continues to throw hanging breaking balls and sinkers, but he's not getting away with it nearly so well these days. Nelson Cruz takes him out of the park to right field on the second pitch he sees, giving the Rangers a helpful insurance run headed to the ninth.
Rangers 4, Red Sox 3, Mid 8th -- The Sox tease with the appearance of a rally, but don't provide the run that would make it legitimate, as Pedro Ciriaco is left stranded when Dustin Pedroia hits a long drive to left that David Murphy is able to catch over his shoulder on the run to end the inning.
Rangers 4, Red Sox 3, End 7th -- Ah, Red Sox baseball. Or rather, Red Sox baseball since August 2012, just finding ways to lose. Josh Beckett, after putting up back-to-back 1-2-3 innings, gets an out on a ground ball and then plunks Elvis Andrus to put the go-ahead run on first. A strikeout of Josh Hamilton gets Beckett his second out, but Adrian Beltre adds a single into right to put runners on the corners. And while Beckett does manage to get the next batter out, it only comes after a pitch in the dirt and to the wall allows Andrus to come home, giving the Rangers the lead and putting the Sox six outs away from falling back beneath .500.
Red Sox 3, Rangers 3, Mid 7th -- Not only does Derek Holland get back to scoreless innings, but he actually strikes out the side in the seventh, getting Kelly Shoppach for the third time tonight.
Red Sox 3, Rangers 3, End 6th -- Josh Beckett preserves the tie by getting a trio of ground balls from the bottom of the order. At 90 pitches through six innings, he probably has at least one more left in him.
Red Sox 3, Rangers 3, Mid 6th -- Six innings in and we're back to even. Dustin Pedroia does the honors of evening things up for the Sox, taking what looked like a slider that just didn't break and driving it over the wall in left-center for a solo shot.
Rangers 3, Red Sox 2, End 5th -- Josh Beckett, at least, is capable of rebounding, getting his first 1-2-3 inning of the night to keep Texas in reach.
Rangers 3, Red Sox 2, Mid 5th -- And the Red Sox respond...by not getting the ball out of the infield in a 1-2-3 frame.
Rangers 3, Red Sox 2, End 4th -- Well, there's the Josh Beckett we all know and--
Well, there's the Josh Beckett we all know. After barely getting out of the third unscathed, Beckett finds himself knocked around Arlington in the fourth. A leadoff double to the wall in right gets things started, and another to left-center with one out brings in the first Texas run of the night. A single to left doesn't bring the tying run home from second, but a Craig Gentry squeeze does in the next at bat, and before Beckett can pick up the third out, the Rangers grab a third run, this time on an Ian Kinsler bloop that a sliding Cody Ross can't come up with. Just like that, and the Sox are down.
Red Sox 2, Rangers 0, Mid 4th -- For a while there, pitchers had Will Middlebrooks all figured out. "Oh, we'll go away from him! Offspeed stuff low-and-away every time! He can't hit it!" But then Will Middlebrooks started hitting a few singles, maybe a double, taking those pitches low-and-away and knocking them into the opposite field. Seeing this, Derek Holland clearly thought to himself "well now he won't be expecting me to pitch inside" and gave it a go.
Will Middlebrooks took his changeup and he hit it into the stands for a solo shot. And now everybody has learned a lesson. Except probably Wily Mo Pena.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, End 3rd -- Once again the defense picks Josh Beckett up. After leadoff singles from Yorvit Torrealba and Craig Gentry put runners on the corners with zero outs, the one-run lead seemed doomed. However, a shallowish fly to right field just drew a bluff and an advance to second thanks to the threat of Cody Ross' arm, and on a ground ball to second Dustin Pedroia elected to go home. Kelly Shoppach kept Torrealba away from the plate long enough for the umpire to call him out for starting towards the dugout (he would try to reverse course and slide into the plate, but it was too late by then), and after a walk loaded the bases, a pop-up finally ended the threat.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, Mid 3rd -- Dustin Pedroia displays warning track power, but that's as close as the Red Sox get to any actual offense in a 1-2-3 third.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, End 2nd -- A bit of hard contact to start the inning, but Adrian Beltre's line drive ends up in Jacoby Ellsbury's glove and Michael Young managed just a single with his, allowing Beckett to end another scoreless inning with a ground ball and strike out.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, Mid 2nd -- A terrible pop-up bunt from Carl Crawford puts a stop to a possible second-inning attack as the Sox strand Will Middlebrooks at first after a leadoff single.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, End 1st -- Josh Beckett provides the Sox with a welcome scoreless first, though he has to rely on a little help from Kelly Shoppach to do so. After Elvis Andrus reached on a one-out walk, he tried to take off for second, but was caught by a mile as Shoppach fired an absolute bullet right on the mark to Mike Aviles. One ground ball later, and the Sox were out of the first.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, Mid 1st -- The Red Sox strike in the first inning--a welcome change against lefties--but don't really take full advantage of their opportunities. With a leadoff walk from Jacoby Ellsbury and seeing-eye single past first base for Pedro Ciriaco, the Sox had runners on the corners without a single out recorded. Dustin Pedroia, however, was perhaps overeager, swinging at the first pitch he saw and hitting a ground ball to short to start a double play. The run came in the back door, but now with two on and the bases empty the Rangers were free to drill Adrian Gonzalez in the hip--likely retaliation for the Adrian Beltre headshot from the night before--and get Cody Ross swinging (and accidentally losing his bat into the stands) to end the inning.
The Red Sox are out to grab a series win against the Texas Rangers Wednesday night as they wrap up their three-game set in Arlington. First pitch is at 8:05 p.m. EST with broadcasts on NESN and WEEI.
It's more of the same for the Red Sox against the left-handed Derek Holland, which means Carl Crawford batting seventh, Pedro Ciriaco at DH batting second, and Kelly Shoppach behind the plate hitting eighth.
This despite the fact that in Tuesday night's game they were held down for some eight innings, scoring one run and even that on a bad defensive play. It's probably the right thing to do, since these right-handed hitters are the guys who have to get things done against southpaws, but after getting shut down so often this past week the Sox' lineup against lefties has to start producing sometime.
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Texas Rangers (57-39)
Boston Red Sox
@ Texas Rangers
Wednesday, Jul 25, 2012, 8:05 PM EDT
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington
Clear. Winds blowing in from right field at 10-15 m.p.h. Game time temperature around 95.
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It still hard to tell whether or not the Boston Red Sox will choose to be buyers or sellers at the MLB trade deadline (July 31). But one thing is for certain, , ESPN.com's Gordon Edes is reporting, Red Sox starting pitcher Jon Lester is not on the trading block.
Despite his disappointing performance, the Red Sox will not trade Lester, a major league source said Wednesday, further reinforcing the team's decision to push for a playoff spot in 2012.
Currently, the left-hander is carrying a career-worst ERA of 5.46 and is coming off his worst MLB outing -- a four-inning, 10-hit, 11-run performance against the Toronto Blue Jays.
"[My confidence] obviously not as high as its highest it's ever been," Lester told the Boston media on Sunday. "The thing is no one is going to feel sorry for me. I have to go out and pitch better. I have to pitch better. I'm not worried about my confidence, I'm not worried about my mechanics. I'm not worried about anything but just trying to execute pitches, and I'm not doing that."
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The Red Sox grabbed a 2-1 win over the Texas Rangers, snapping their four-game losing streak with a late rally against Joe Nathan.
For much of the early game, it was the same old story for the Red Sox offense against a replacement starter for the Rangers. Martin Perez, who has been struggling this year in Triple-A, managed to escape trouble in the second, had a bad defensive play in right gift the Red Sox a run, and then held them scoreless through the end of the sixth.
Clay Buchholz, meanwhile, was largely up to the task of matching him, reinforcing his position as the current leader of the rotation. While he didn't have the strikeout going at all, Buchholz still managed to pick up 12 ground outs including a couple of double plays, thus keeping the Rangers from making up their deficit.
Eventually, though, the Rangers would manage to put Elvis Andrus on second early enough for him to move to third on a wild pitch with one out, and then score on a ground ball, tying it at 1-1.
The Red Sox would never really show up offensively, but the relief pitching held (albeit with Vicente Padilla hitting Adrian Beltre in the head), allowing the Red Sox an opportunity in the ninth. Up against Joe Nathan, the Sox quickly gave up their first two outs, and then started drawing walks. Daniel Nava came first, Jarrod Saltalamacchia second, and up stepped Mike Aviles. Facing a 3-2 count, Aviles sent a flare just over the head of Elvis Andrus at short, giving the Sox the lead they'd sought for so long. Alfredo Aceves was able to shut it down in the bottom half of the ninth, giving the Sox the much-needed 2-1 win.
|Final - 7.24.2012
|Boston Red Sox
|Texas Rangers
|WP: Vicente Padilla (4 - 0)
SV: Alfredo Aceves (21)
LP: Joe Nathan (1 - 3)
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Red Sox 2, Rangers 1, Mid 9th -- The Red Sox finally get back on the board against Joe Nathan, taking a 2-1 lead in the ninth. All the damage comes with two outs, as both Daniel Nava and Jarrod Saltalamacchia draw walks. Mike Aviles steps up to the plate, works a long at-bat, running the count full, and then gets a slider he just barely manages to hit, putting it on a line up over the head of the leaping Elvis Andrus to drive in the one run.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 1, End 8th -- The Rangers manage to put a couple men on base with two outs, including one when Vicente Padilla catches Adrian Beltre on the helmet with a fastball, but Michael Young grounds out to end the frame uneventfully.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 1, Mid 8th -- Dustin Pedroia's line drive is about all the Sox can claim credit for in the eighth, and it ends up in Elvis Andrus' glove, leaving them victims of another 1-2-3 inning and still with just two games against the Rangers despite a pair of replacement starters.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 1, End 7th -- Without explanation, Carl Crawford is out of the game in left field, with Daniel Nava entering in his place. The Rangers get a couple of walks in the meantime, but Clay manages to finish what is almost certainly his last inning without further incident.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 1, Mid 7th -- Strikeout, ground out, fly out ends the seventh in a hurry as Alexi Ogando places Martin Perez.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 1, End 6th -- And the Rangers finally strike back. You can't expect Texas to be held down for too long, and when you let a guy like Perez off the hook over and over again, they'll get him the one run he needs for a tie. Elvis Andrus provides the baserunner with a one-out double, and a wild pitch moves him to third before a ground ball past Clay Buchholz to Mike Aviles, who elects to go to first for the second out and letting the equalizing run in.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, Mid 6th -- A 2-out single from Will Middlebrooks gives him his second hit of the night, but the Sox still can't get anything else across against Martin Perez.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, End 5th -- David Murphy doubles and Mike Napoli walks, putting the Sox in a bad position with one out, but Buchholz gets a ground ball from Craig Gentry, giving the Sox an inning-ending double play.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, Mid 5th -- Adrian Beltre makes an excellent play on a bunt from Pedro Ciriaco, stealing a single from the infielder in a 1-2-3 fifth.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, End 4th -- Adrian Beltre has a weird two-out double, as Jacoby Ellsbury can't quite make a sliding grab on a shallow fly ball. Beltre manages to head to second and just barely--depending on who you ask--avoid a tag from Dustin Pedroia.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, Mid 4th -- The Red Sox finally score, but it's only thanks to a bad defensive play in right field. With Cody Ross on base via a walk and two outs, Kelly Shoppach hit a long fly ball to right field. David Murphy, however, got a poor read, and never truly recovered, resulting in a dropped ball at the wall and a run scoring all the way from first.
Red Sox 0, Rangers 0, End 3rd -- A leadoff single gives the Rangers their first hit of the game, and an error lets another batter reach, but a double play erases the leadoff, and another ground ball gets Buchholz out of harm's way.
Red Sox 0, Rangers 0, Mid 3rd -- If Martin Perez was shaken at all by the second inning, he isn't showing it. Jacoby Ellsbury grounds up the middle for a leadoff single, but Perez gets the rest of the Sox in order, leaving them scoreless for a tenth straight inning.
Red Sox 0, Rangers 0, End 2nd -- The Red Sox don't face nearly as much danger in the bottom of the inning, as Clay Buchholz earns a quick trio of ground outs to keep the Rangers down another inning.
Red Sox 0, Rangers 0, Mid 2nd -- The Sox threaten to break through against Martin Perez, with singles from Adrian Gonzalez and Will Middlebrooks and a walk from Kelly Shoppach loading the bases with two outs. Mike Aviles works a decent at-bat, and almost draws the walk, but can only muster a fly ball to right field, ending the inning uneventfully.
Red Sox 0, Rangers 0, End 1st -- Clay Buchholz has an uninspiring start to the game, plunking leadoff hitter Ian Kinsler right out of the gates. Unfortunately for Kinsler, Buchholz manages to throw over to first and--controversially--pick him off. Two fly balls later, and Buchholz technically has a 1-2-3.
Red Sox 0, Rangers 0, Mid 1st -- The Red Sox are off to another slow start against a struggling minor leaguer, but at least this time it involves some contact. The top of the order goes 1-2-3 against Martin Perez with a fly ball, ground ball, and another fly makes it a 10-pitch start for the lefty.
The Red Sox are out to snap a four-game losing streak that has once again put them below .500 as they take on Martin Perez and the Texas Rangers. First pitch is at 8:05 p.m. EST with broadcasts on NESN, the MLB Network, and WEEI.
Just a few short days ago a story emerged about how Carl Crawford felt like he had not been given a fair chance in 2011, demoted well down into the bottom half of the lineup after a few bad games by manager Terry Francona. Said narrative led to stories about Bobby V and Carl Crawford getting along, and how things could be different.
Well, welcome to the seven-hole, Carl. Seven games into his injury-delayed season, and Crawford once again finds himself well down in the order.
To be fair, this is likely part of a lineup shuffle specifically designed for the lefty they'll face in Martin Perez, who has been entirely mediocre in Triple-A this year (a red flag that he could dominate the Red Sox based on recent trends). Crawford will almost certainly be back to batting second come the night right-handed starter, but still, given the timing, it's an almost comical change.
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Texas Rangers (57-38)
Boston Red Sox
@ Texas Rangers
Tuesday, Jul 24, 2012, 8:05 PM EDT
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington
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In what was supposed to be the most winnable game of this three-game series, the Red Sox were utterly crushed by the Texas Rangers, 9-1.
With Felix Doubront going up against Scott Feldman (who started the night with an ERA approaching 6.00), a substitute for Roy Oswalt, who was scratched with a tight lower back, the Sox just needed to play up to their level against a struggling starter. Even with a mediocre Doubront outing, they should have had a good shot.
Instead, they were almost completely silent against one of the most mediocre arms they're likely to run into on a contending team like this. A second-inning home run from Jarrod Saltalamacchia would put the team up 1-0, and then...nothing. Allowing baserunners one at a time, Feldman held the Red Sox down in the third, then the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh. It was a terrible offensive showing from what is supposed to be one of the best lineups in the majors.
Even had the Sox' bats been alive, however, it would likely have made no difference, because Doubront wasn't even mediocre. After being bailed out by a tremendous play from Will Middlebrooks in the first, Doubront managed to dig himself out of a hole in the second, and then finally fell completely apart in the third. Hard-hit infield singles got things started before hard line drives dealt the killing blows, leaving the Sox in a 4-1 hole after three.
While Doubront would bounce back for a short time, he would once again struggle in the sixth, surrendering a two-run homer to Mike Napoli before recording an out. In came Franklin Morales, showing all the struggles one might expect from someone jerked back and forth from the bullpen (where he was struggling) to the rotation (where he was not) back to the bullpen in little over a month. By the time the long inning was at an end, the Sox trailed by 9-1--a gap they would not close as the night wound down.
|Final - 7.23.2012
|Boston Red Sox
|Texas Rangers
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The Red Sox are looking to start a miracle run to the trade deadline Monday night as they take on Scott Feldman and the Texas Rangers.
We'll keep you up-to-date on all the action as it goes down in Arlington.
Rangers 9, Red Sox 1, End 8th -- Mark Melancon goes back to work lowering his ERA after his unlucky outing against the Jays. A 1-2-3 frame sends the game to the ninth in a hurry.
Rangers 9, Red Sox 1, Mid 8th -- A Dustin Pedroia single is all the Sox get in the eighth as Feldman finally is out of the game. Ironically, Pedroia is the only one who doesn't do much work at the plate, simply putting the first pitch he saw into play.
Rangers 9, Red Sox 1, End 7th -- Morales makes clean work of things in the seventh, striking out two batters in a 1-2-3 frame.
Rangers 9, Red Sox 1, Mid 7th -- The Red Sox and Rangers wait through a replay delay as Jarrod Saltalamacchia's double off the top of the wall remains a double. The Sox then fail to bring him across, with two ground outs and a pop-out leaving them without a run in the seventh.
Rangers 9, Red Sox 1, End 6th -- Well, at least we can all put this one in the book now. Mike Napoli takes a two-run shot to deep left off of Felix Doubront before Franklin Morales the wrongfully converted comes in to show why you don't take a guy who's having success in the rotation and send him back to the bullpen after one month. The Rangers push across three more before the inning is over, effectively sealing this one.
Rangers 4, Red Sox 1, Mid 6th -- Another one-baserunner inning for the Red Sox, this time with Dustin Pedroia reaching on a leadoff single before getting caught stealing to end the inning with Jarrod Saltalamacchia at the plate. Depressing baseball, this.
Rangers 4, Red Sox 1, End 5th -- Another 1-2-3 inning for Doubront keeps the Red Sox within striking distance of the Rangers. Now if they would just get around to hitting the guy with the 5.89 ERA...
Rangers 4, Red Sox 1, Mid 5th -- The good news is that Jacoby Ellsbury just keeps on hitting, lacing a single into left field. The bad news is that no other Red Sox see fit to follow suit, leaving them still with just the one run through five frames of work.
Rangers 4, Red Sox 1, End 4th -- Ian Kinsler doubles off Doubront, but luckily it comes after the lefty picked up two outs against the bottom of the lineup, allowing him to end the frame with an Elvis Andrus ground ball.
Rangers 4, Red Sox 1, Mid 4th -- The Red Sox respond to Texas' big inning...by having the heart-of-the-order go 1-2-3. This is about as uninspiring as performances get against Scott Feldman.
Rangers 4, Red Sox 1, End 3rd -- About two months ago, Felix Doubront's starts took a turn for the worse. The reason isn't hard to figure out: he's a young starter who was pulled back-and-forth between the rotation and bullpen a year ago, the stamina just isn't there this year. He's hit the proverbial wall.
The Sox, however, either don't recognize this, or don't want to acknowledge it, and the result is mediocre outing after mediocre outing. This one was easy to see coming given that he'd been saved by Will Middlebrooks' defense in the first and barely avoided damage in the second, but it doesn't make it any easier to watch. Sandwiched around a walk, Mike Aviles and Dustin Pedroia do good jobs just to get to a pair of sharply hit infield singles, but are unable to throw out either Craig Gentry or Elvis Andrus. With Pedroia overthrowing Gonzalez on the second play, the Rangers are able to score both runners from second and third, giving them the 2-1 lead.
After that, it's a double to the corner from Josh Hamilton that scores the third, and then a Michael Young line drive single that puts the Rangers ahead 4-1. Doubront has hit the wall.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, Mid 3rd -- A chance to build on their lead goes by the wayside for the Red Sox in the third. A sharp hit with one out from Jacoby Ellsbury knocked off Feldman, allowing the center fielder to reach first and then move to third on a two-out single past the first base bag from Dustin Pedroia. The Sox had Adrian Gonzalez, the AL player of the week and one of the best in the league with RISP at the plate, but in the end all they got was an inning-ending pop-up.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, End 2nd -- Felix Doubront works himself out of a jam after Adrian Beltre flared a double just barely fair down the left field line. A ground ball from Michael Young moved Hamilton to third, causing Doubront to pitch around Nelson Cruz, eventually surrendering a walk on a full count. After that, though, it was all attack. Three pitches got him a strikeout of Mike Napoli, and four more see Brandon Snyder off looking at strike three, ending the inning.
Red Sox 1, Rangers 0, Mid 2nd -- A couple of Red Sox are enjoying their return to familiar locales. With two outs, Jarrod Saltalamacchia takes it to his former team, launching a solo shot to right field as Feldman's fly ball issues show up in the second inning. Right behind him comes Will Middlebrooks, who has spent most of his life in the area. While Middlebrooks doesn't quite manage to take Feldman's offering, low-and-away, into the seats, he makes Nelson Cruz attempt a leaping grab at the wall, and Cruz can't hold on after getting the ball in the glove, allowing Middlebrooks to make his way to second before a Ryan Sweeney ground ball ended the threat.
Red Sox 0, Rangers 0, End 1st -- Ian Kinsler leads off the frame with a bloop single, putting bad memories of disaster firsts into the minds of Red Sox fans. And, when Elvis Andrus managed to hit a 1-2 curveball on the screws, it certainly made for a scary half-second between the time the ball left the bat, and the moment Will Middlebrooks, leaping high in the air, managed to pull the ball down on the fly and throw to first to double up Kinsler. Perhaps invigorated by the defensive efforts behind him, Felix Doubront proceeded to get Josh Hamilton swinging at a changeup to end the frame.
Red Sox 0, Rangers 0, Mid 1st -- Up against a pitcher like Scott "Hanging Sinker" Feldman, a first-inning run still can't necessarily be expected, but it would have been nice to see. What can be expected is an inning that lasts longer than 11 pitches, and maybe one free of strikeouts on pitches in the dirt.
No such luck for the Red Sox, however. Jacoby Ellsbury makes the first out on the second pitch of the game, getting decent contact but getting too much loft on the ball to keep Josh Hamilton from settling underneath it. Carl Crawford is the victim of the ball-in-dirt strikeout, chasing a 1-2 curve before Dustin Pedroia hit a relatively easy fly to right to end the frame.
Boston Red Sox first baseman Adrian Gonzalez has been named American League Player of the Week.
In his last seven games, Gonzalez hit .429 with three home runs and 12 RBI. He also scored five runs and racked up 21 total bases in those games. Despite Gonzalez' hitting, the Red Sox were just 3-4 last week.
Gonzalez is hitting .296 on the season with nine homers and 58 RBI. This was the sixth time Gonzalez has been named Player of the Week. His last Player of the Week award came last season for the week of August 22-28. Gonzalez had stiff competition but beat out Mike Trout of the Angels, Alex Gordon of the Royals, Jesus Montero of the Mariners and Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers for this week's honor.
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The Red Sox will have all available hands on deck against Scott Feldman as they try to reverse their fortunes in Texas against the AL West leading Rangers. First pitch is at 8:05 p.m. EST with broadcasts on NESN, ESPN, and WEEI.
After a couple of losses featuring less-than-full lineups, with every win now critical the Sox will go all-out against Scott Feldman, with Ryan Sweeney in place of Daniel Nava the only possible diversion from the standard depth chart. Both Will Middlebrooks and Carl Crawford will return to the lineup, with Cody Ross filling in at DH.
The only missing element is David Ortiz, and sadly, it will still be a while before the Sox can slot him in again.
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Texas Rangers (56-38)
Boston Red Sox
@ Texas Rangers
Monday, Jul 23, 2012, 8:05 PM EDT
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington
Felix Doubront vs Scott Feldman
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Fox's Steve Doocy talked with Lou Engle who is an evangelical who is planning a gathering and press conference today speaking out against Barack Obama. The gather is being dubbed "The Called." Their website claims that the idea for the gather came to Engle in a prophetic dream. Engle said that Barack Obama's first act as president would "remove every restriction of abortion."
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Oh sure, there was another quarter to play, and the score remained in touch for the first half of the fourth quarter. But that end to the quarter, watching the Lakers throw away defensive stop after defensive stop, and then to follow that up with a failure of the most basic basketball fundamental of all, was clear indication that victory was never in the cards. And sure enough, in the fourth quarter, all the things the Lakers did well through three went away. They had six turnovers through 36 minutes, and turned it over 8 times in the final 12. Miami didn't have a turnover in the final period. That's your ball game, folks.
In many ways, this game doesn't mean much. Miami is the better team, playing at home against a weary Lakers squad on the end of a long road trip. That road trip has gone OK. Not great, but OK, and no smart Laker fan was expectant of a result today. Throw in that both LeBron James and Dwyane Wade were magnificent, and it makes the end result all the less surprising. And yet, for whatever mystical reasons control the ebb and flow of a basketball game, this game was there for the Lakers to take. But, against a team ranked 21st and 27th in defensive and offensive rebounding respectively, the Lakers were killed on both sides of the glass. Against a team that has struggled with size all season long, the Lakers couldn't make a simple entry pass without turning the ball over in the fourth quarter.
The culprits in defeat were the normal ones. I don't think Dwight Howard looked as dis-interested in today's game as he has so many other times this season, but through three quarters he had four rebounds, and he ended up with single digit boards as the Lakers got destroyed on the glass. Steve Nash scored well, with 15 points on 9 possessions used, but he had more turnovers than assists, including one fourth quarter pass that might be the worst pass he's ever thrown. Metta World Peace had his
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6:20am Wednesday 16th April 2014 in Silsden By Ian Whiting
Brighouse Town stretched their lead at the summit of the Toolstation Northern Counties East Premier Division to four points with a 4-0 home win over basement outfit Lincoln Moorlands Railway.
A Tom Matthews strike set them on their way to victory after just 13 minutes, with Ernest Boafo adding a penalty and James Hurtley also on target before the break. A late strike from Joe Jagger wrapped up the scoring.
Paul Quinn's Town, who also have a game in hand on second-placed Tadcaster Albion, are on the brink of clinching the title and securing the solitary promotion spot the division offers into the Evo-Stik League.
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FC Halifax Town moved to third in the Skrill Premier after beating Grimsby Town 1-0 at Blundell Park. Lois Maynard scored with a thunderous strike from the edge of the area.
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When beloved pugilist Muhammad Ali stepped into the ring against George Foreman in Zaire in 1974, it was intended to be Ali's retirement bout.
Ali was 32 years old at the time, and it was apparent to everyone that his best days were behind him. The former champion, revered for being nearly impossible to lay a glove on in his prime, was coming off of losses at the hands of Joe Frazier and Ken Norton, both of whom beat up Ali pretty bad (Frazier left Ali with a badly swollen jaw; Norton broke it). And while Ali avenged both losses in the lead up to "The Rumble in The Jungle", neither were convincing wins. Foreman, on the other hand, demolished Frazier and Norton inside of 10 minutes combined. It did not look good for Ali.
So it was publicized that this would be Ali's swan song. If he won, he reclaimed his title against a 40-0 wrecking machine that everyone thought was unbeatable. And if he lost, so what? He lost to a 40-0 wrecking machine that couldn't be beat.
The days leading up to the fight were grim. Howard Cosell got on the air and basically gave Ali a eulogy. Ali's camp honesty believed that he was going to get maimed or killed in the ring. At the very least, they believed his pride was going to make him endure one of the worst beatings in combat sports history.
But we all know what ended up happening. After enduring nearly 24 minutes of punishment against the ropes, Ali sprung on a completely gassed Foreman, who had literally beat up Ali until he was too exhausted to hold his own hands up. Ali hit him with a lightning fast combo, Foreman fell, and made the crucial mistake of taking a breather while on the mat. When he tried to get back up, it took longer than he thought it would, and suddenly Muhammed Ali had just pulled off one of the biggest upsets in boxing history, regaining his heavyweight title from the most worthy adversary of his long and storied career.
And this, we would all say, would have been a great time for Muhammed Ali to retire, just like he had intended before the fight. He was still in good health. He had plenty of money. He was coming off his biggest win. What better time to retire?
But like so many other boxers and mixed martial artists of yesterday and today, Ali didn't know when to say goodbye to the sport he loved. As you might have guessed by now, the Foreman fight wasn't Ali's retirement bout- far from it. He went on to fight 15 more bouts over the course of the next 7 years. And after each fight, you could see a little more of "The Greatest" fade. If there was a time when he absolutely, positively should have retired, it was after his 42 minute war with Joe Frazier in their rubber match, known forever as "The Thrilla In Manilla". Neither man was physically or mentally the same after that fight, and they were both lucky to leave the ring alive that night. But Ali still had to have "one more fight". He fought Earnie Shavers, the most notoriously hardest hitting heavyweight of his time. Watching Shavers land power shots to a fading Ali is hard to watch, especially knowing what we know today. Watching Ali get out hustled by Leon Spinks (the boxing equivalent of Crazy Horse Bennett, for those of you who don't know) was even harder to watch. But Ali chalked that up to underestimating "The Vampire" (as he dubbed the snaggle toothed Spinks), and in their automatic rematch, he out hustled Spinks and won his belt back for a record third time.
And then he retired and the world breathed a collective sigh of relief. Finally, we wouldn't have to worry about our beloved hero anymore. He's retired, and even better, he retired champion. He went out on top. Good for him.
But Ali just couldn't say goodbye. Almost exactly two years later, he returned to the ring. In those two years, his speech had noticeably slowed, and he had started to slur his words. He was already experiencing health problems too, which had been misdiagnosed as a bad thyroid.
And he didn't get an easy fight for his return bout. No, he took on the man who took over the heavyweight title after his retirement - Larry Holmes. Holmes was 30 years old, 6'3 and 211 pounds of rippling muscle, with a 37-0 pro record. He was everything Ali was in his prime (technically speaking), and more. On top of that, Holmes had trained with Ali for several years, and knew the in's and out's of his game better than anyone else. Ali was 38 years old and hadn't fought in two years.
And it showed. Larry Holmes beat up Muhammed Ali. It was brutal and difficult to watch. Towards the end, Ali just stood there like a heavy bag and took what Holmes dished out, and wouldn't throw anything back. Finally, after 30 minutes of this nonsense, Ali's corner saw enough and threw in the towel. It was the one and only time out of 61 professional fights that Ali was ever stopped.
So, you say, that was a noble effort. He came out of retirement to fight the champ, he made a lot of money ($8 million dollars, to be exact - in 1980 dollars),and then he just went back into retirement and lived happily ever after.
And if you said that, you'd be wrong.
Ali still couldn't say goodbye. He wanted to go out on a win. But after what happened in the Holmes fight, no athletic commission would allow him to fight in the states. That didn't stop Ali though. He went to the Bahamas, and there lost a one sided decision to Trevor Berbick, a fighter who 5 years earlier Ali would have mopped the floor with. After that, Ali had no choice but to say goodbye.
Today, we see Ali in horrible health; ravaged by the cruelty of Parkinson's disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer's motor skills, speech, and other functions. While thousands of people who have never boxed a round in their life have developed the disease (Michael J. Fox, for example), getting one's brain rattled on a regular basis certainly can't help matters.
One would hope that fighters today would look at Ali and try to learn from his mistakes - but apparently, they aren't. We are seeing far too many fighters overstay their welcome in mixed martial arts right now. These guys just don't know when to say goodbye, either.
Now, I will preface what I'm about to say by stating that I'm a libertarian, in every meaning of the word - I will never, ever try to tell another man (or woman, for the matter) what to do with their own bodies. I think adults should be able to do with their own bodies what they please, no matter if it's pickling their livers with too much alcohol or getting their brains scrambled from hanging around in the ring or cage for too long.
That being said, there are a lot of folks out there in MMA that don't know when to say goodbye. And yes, I'm looking at you Chuck Liddell. Mark Coleman. Tito Ortiz. Kevin Randleman. Now, in Mark and Kevin's case I can understand it- neither of those guy's can afford to hang it up right now. They have kids to feed, and they never made a whole lot of money during their career. And for that reason, I can tolerate them fighting more than a Chuck or a Tito. They're fighting for a noble cause - because they HAVE to.
Chuck and Tito on the other hand, don't have to.Neither man has to work another day in their lives - they are both multi - millionaires, and live comfortably. But neither can say goodbye to the sport. In Chuck's case, it's because he legitimately loves to fight. It's his hobby, his passion. Tito, on the other hand, does it because he loves to be in the public's eye. Tito likes to be famous, and if he could make a living being an actor or a rock-star, he'd do that instead. But he can't, so he mixes is up in a cage.
Now, I would like to give you an example of how staying around in the cage too long can effect a fighter. We will look at Chuck Liddell. First, let's take a look at an interview with Chuck from right after his come from behind KO win over Alistar Overeem in Pride back in 2003.
Now, let's take a look at Chuck six years later, as he talks to a sportscaster about his induction into the Cal Poly hall of fame.
Now, it's pretty clear to anyone with a decent ear the effects that Chuck's career has taken on him. In 2003, Chuck was an articulate, easy to understand guy. In 2009..........he wasn't. His speech over the last 6 years has slowed down, it's slurred, and it's also lowered in tone considerably. These speech problems point too a case of Dementia pugilistica - that's doctor lingo for "punch drunk". His speech has gotten considerably worse since he was horrifically knocked out against Rashad Evans. He should have retired then. He didn't. He came back and got knocked out again by Maurico Rua a few months later. That didn't help any.
And maybe it's a good thing that he's fighting Tito Ortiz for a third time in June. In their previous two fights, Tito showed nothing to indicate that he has the skills or power to even faze Chuck on the feet, let alone KO him. And he's shown nothing since then to indicate that he's aquired those skills. I think it'd be good for Chuck to beat Tito, say goodbye to the sport and his fans, and ride off into the sunset on a high note.
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North Country prisons part of the "American Exception"
May 16, 2008 — Prisons are a significant part of the economy and of the cultural fabric of the North Country. Some families have been working as corrections officers for three generations. Some communities are known as prison towns. And in other parts of New York, our region is sometimes called "Little Siberia" because of its network of state and federal prisons. New York Times reporter Adam Liptak says those prisons are worth a second look. In a new series of articles called "The American Exception," he raises challenging questions about our society's prison policies. Liptak spoke about his reporting in-depth with Brian Mann. Go to full article
Alcohol-related deaths at Paul Smiths College spark lawsuit, debate
Jun 18, 2007 — This spring, two Paul Smiths College students died following a late-night drinking party. 20 year-old Sean Cornell of Manchester Center, Vermont, and 18-year-old Lee Walker of Enosburg Falls, Vermont drowned when their canoes overturned. They were paddling back to campus across Lower St. Regis Lake. The tragedy followed three alcohol-related deaths at the school in 2005. Some community leaders say Paul Smiths has made huge strides, working to keep students safe. But the school faces a lawsuit and simmering public criticism over its handling of student alcohol abuse. This week, we'll look at the controversy at Paul Smiths College. We'll also look at the changing ethics of alcohol on college campuses. Here's Brian Mann with part one of our special three-part report. Go to full article
North Country man accused of killing Trooper believed dead
Apr 26, 2007 — State police believe that a body found in a burned farmhouse is that of a North Country man accused of shooting three state policemen. Travis Trim, age 23, was the subject of a manhunt that began on Tuesday. He was apparently cornered in the house in Margaretville, in Delaware County south of Albany. The blaze began during a stand-off, after state police fired non-incendiary smoke bombs into the home. Brian Mann has details. Go to full article
Unearthing North Country Legend Jane McCrea
Nov 24, 2006 — The December issue of Adirondack Life magazine tells the story of Jane McCrea, a young Scottish woman who lived in Fort Edwards in the 1770s. While waiting to meet her fiance, McCrea was murdered and scalped by native soldiers loyal to the British. Her death sparked outrage in the American colonies and served as a major catalyst for the Revolutionary War. In the centuries since, McCrea has become a part of North Country legend. The Adirondack Life article was written by David Starbuck, who lives in Chestertown. Starbuck teaches anthropology at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire and led the scientific team that is working to reconstruct details of McCrea's life. He told Brian Mann that Jane McCrea's story is tangled up in his own family's history. Go to full article
Scandals taint NY election season
Nov 17, 2006 — The New York Times is reporting this morning that governor-elect Eliot Spitzer will push for the ouster of fellow Democrat Alan Hevesi. Hevesi, the state's comptroller, was forced to repay tens of thousands of dollars following the revelation that he used a state employee to chauffeur his wife. Fall-out also continues from the controversial leak of state police documents that described a domestic incident involving Republican congressman John Sweeney. The union representing New York state police says an investigator is being wrongly demoted because he's being blamed for leaking a trooper's report about a the incident. The story broke in the press just days before the November seventh election, which Sweeney lost to Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand. Brian Mann spoke about the ugly political climate with Fred LeBrun, veteran columnist with the Albany Times-Union. Go to full article
Domestic violence charge rocks Sweeney race
Nov 02, 2006 — The 20th congressional district race was rocked yesterday when two newspapers published reports of a domestic incident in December involving Republican incumbent John Sweeney and his wife Gaia, who goes by the name Gayle. The Albany Times-Union and the New York Daily News reported that Sweeney allegedly grabbed his wife by the neck. The development comes with just a week left in the campaign, as Sweeney faces the toughest re-election fight of his career against Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand. Brian Mann has the story. Go to full article
NY Times finds abuses in North Country courts
Sep 25, 2006 — A report published this morning in the New York Times alleges widespread incompetence and abuse of power in New York's system of town and village courts. The article, based on a year-long investigation by the Times, focuses on six local courts in the North Country. Brian Mann has details. Go to full article
"Primetime" Story Prompts Ethics Debate
Apr 27, 2006 — Franklin County District Attorney Derek Champagne says it's too late to file criminal charges against a Vermontville man videotaped while hitting and slapping his 15-year-old daughter. But Champagne says state and local officials are reviewing whether three children still living in the home of Joe and Lynn Nelson are receiving proper care. Last Friday, the ABC news magazine "Primetime" broadcast footage of the Nelson home that included scenes of physical and emotional violence. The footage aired as part of a documentary on stepfamilies struggling with children from separate marriages. The broadcast prompted a public outcry. As Brian Mann reports, it has also triggered a new debate over the ethics of journalism.
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A warning: Some of the sounds in this story are violent and disturbing. Go to full article
Journalism Ethicist Says ABC News Made Sound Decision
Apr 27, 2006 — For a deeper look at the ethics of journalism, NCPR contacted Kelly McBride, who writes about ethics at the Poynter Institute, one of the top journalism think tanks in America. McBride spoke with Brian Mann about the ethical gray zones that reporters sometimes navigate while pursuing complicated stories. McBride says journalists sometimes serve a greater good by acting as observers rather than active participants. Go to full article
Man Arrested In Double Murder
Jan 13, 2006 — State police have charged a man in the double murder of a couple in Schuyler Falls just before Christmas. David and Lorraine Donivan were stabbled to death on December 20th. 37-year-old Edward Dashnaw of Plattsburgh was arrested last night and charged with 2 counts of murder in the second degree. Brian Mann has details. Go to full article
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As Easter approaches, St. Paul's words in the Letter to the Hebrews are timely. We must continue the fight; we must not give up hope. Even when we undergo trials, we should take comfort in the example of Christ, Who died for our sins. Our trials are our preparation for rising to new life with Christ on Easter.
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And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us: Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God. For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from sinners against himself; that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds. For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin: And you have forgotten the consolation, which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord; neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him. For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth; and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons; for what son is there, whom the father doth not correct? But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
Moreover we have had fathers of our flesh, for instructors, and we reverenced them: shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits, and live? And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.
Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield, to them that are exercised by it, the most peaceable fruit of justice. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.
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TWO tries from Charlie Edwards and a conversion from Luke Giles in the opening 15 minutes were enough to put Combe in firm control at Westcliff on Saturday.
Westcliff had more than their share of ball but through phase after phase a mean Combe defence kept them pinned down and 12 points still separated the sides at the break.
The fierce, bitter wind gave Westcliff some territorial advantage early in the second half and Duff Martyn twisted his way to the line before Ben McKeith added the points with the only decent kick of the game.
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A light-hearted charity event saw fundraisers race across Hove beach carrying huge balls under their arms.
Yesterday's event was held to raise money for male cancer projects. Women were encouraged to take part but asked to wear a comedy moustache and run "in a manly manner".
Competitors had to carry their balls under their arms for the whole three kilometre race, despite obstacles such as running through wallpaper paste and dipping their arms in buckets of olive oil to make the balls slippery.
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We haven't touched on the whole James Wisniewski - Brent Seabrook hit much here, partially because I was having too much fun thinking about quotes from Major League, and partially because I didn't think there was too much to discuss. Pretty much everyone's in agreement -- Wisniewski attacked a guy without the puck, left his feet, and led with his elbow. It's so far beyond "not a hockey play" that any sort of justification about an earlier hit on Corey Perry is silly.
Word has come down that Wisniewski will be suspended for eight games. That's a pretty good length, especially considering the NHL's wishy washy standards. For comparison, Owen Nolan got 11 games for trying to decapitate Grant Marshall with his elbow back in 2001 -- the difference here is that Wisniewski was attacking during play, whereas Nolan struck Marshall on his way back to the bench.
What amazes me, perhaps more than anything else, is Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle is sticking up for Wisniewski:
"Wisniewski had two fights tonight. He probably was the first star in our mind. This was probably his best game as a Duck."
Ok, look, I understand that you gotta stick up for your guy and tow the party line. But wouldn't something like "Wisniewski was emotional after Chicago took out Corey Perry and perhaps he took it too far. We don't want anyone to get hurt." be a little more appropriate? Good on Bill Guerin, who stood up for what was right rather than towing the party line after the Matt Cooke incident. At some point, the bigger picture has to come into play. At some point, everyone in the league has to come to his senses and realize that some things go beyond team loyalty.
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