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After taking the morning off for some personal business, we're ready to get going with things here today.
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During the bottom of the 8th inning of Tuesday night's game, Cleveland Indians pitcher Jensen Lewis threw behind Boston Red Sox third baseman Adrian Beltre and of course Beltre didn't take kindly to it.
He was stopped by Indians catcher Lou Marson and home plate umpire Tim Welke before anything serious could happen. But the benches cleared anyways and we have a few verbal discussions, mainly between Josh Beckett and Shelley Duncan, and some shoving.
But after it was cleared up, Red Sox skipper Terry Francona was going at it with Indians third base coach Steve Smith and the players headed back out. I wonder if Tito told Smith sucked on "The Amazing Race".
Why on earth would you throw at Beltre? This is the same guy that will beat his teammates up for rubbing his head. After all was said and done, Lewis, Smith and Beckett were all ejected from the game.
Photo credit: AP Photo
During tonight's 3-1 Boston Red Sox win over the Cleveland Indians, NESN analyst Jerry Remy got a speeding ticket during the game. Earlier in the game, Don Orsillo and the RemDawg were talking about the new NESN billboard by the Mass Pike which led to the Remy saying he'd never gotten a speeding ticket.
Well one thing led to another and during an inning break, the RemDawg was cited for speeding in the vicinity of Fenway Park.
Here's the video for you to enjoy:
After being in purgatory since finishing his rehab assignment with the Pawtucket Red Sox, Mike Lowell returned to a nice standing ovation from the Boston Red Sox faithful on Tuesday night. What he did after that only happens at Fenway Park.
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Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 8/2 [SOX & Dawgs]
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After failing to pick up their third straight come-from-behind win, the Boston Red Sox will look for a win the more conventional way tonight against the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park in the game two of a four-game set.
This evening's game will start at 7:10 p.m. and will be shown on NESN in the Red Sox television market. If you live in the Indians television market, you can catch the game on STO. If you can't catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to the game on the 2010 Red Sox radio network.
Josh Beckett will toe the rubber for Terry Francona and the Red Sox tonight in his third start since being activated from the disabled list. Overall, Beckett has made 10 starts in 2010 and is 2-1 with a 6.33 ERA. He hasn't faced the Indians in 2010 and is 2-4 with a 6.56 ERA in six career starts against them.
The Indians have called up David Huff from Triple-A Columbus to make the start tonight. Huff has made 13 starts in the big leagues this season and is 2-9 with a 6.04 ERA. He's made one start against the Red Sox in 2010 and his career that came back on June 8th. In that start, he took the loss after allowing three runs (none earned) in six innings in the 3-2 win by the Red Sox.
Keep reading for lineups, batter/pitcher matchups and pregame links.
Red Sox Nation, our worst fears have been realized.
After leaving last night's game with a jammed right thumb, Boston Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis has been placed on the disabled list according to Scott Lauber of the Boston Herald.
Mike Lowell has been activated from the disabled list and takes Youk's spot on the 25-man roster.
There's no word on the severity of Youk's injury just yet as skipper Terry Francona is meeting with the media. When there's word of Youk's official diagnosis, I'll update the post.
Update: According to tweets from the media, Youk has a torn muscle in his hand. According to Terry Francona, it's "the muscle that helps you contract your thumb. It's a rare occurance"
He will undergo further testing on it and it's quite possible he could be lost for the season if he has to undergo surgery.
Back in early December, the UConn Huskies men's basketball program picked up a solid recruit in Maurice Harkless from Queens, NY. Then in mid-June, Harkless rescinded his verbal commitment and reopened his recruitment although he kept UConn on his list of schools he was interested in.
And now according to Adam Zagoria of SNY.tv, Harkless doesn't have UConn on his new list of schools.
The 6-foot-8 Queens, N.Y. native wrote on Twitter he’s considering the following schools after spending next year at South Kent (Conn.): St. John’s, Maryland, Florida, N.C. State, Cincinnati, Rutgers, Arizona and Memphis.
I asked Harkless if that means UConn is definitely out and he said, “Yes.”
As you can see Harkless still has three Big East schools on his lists but the way this kid has been flip-flopping, you never know where he'll end up.
But one thing's for certain, it looks like a few years in Storrs is definitely not in his future.
Photo credit: NY Daily News
If the Boston Red Sox don't make the playoffs in 2010, one reason will be that they couldn't beat the bottom feeders of the American League like the Cleveland Indians. And that's exactly what happened on Monday night as they couldn't pull off another walk-off win in the 6-5 loss to the Indians at Fenway Park.
What started out as a good outing for John Lackey suddenly went south for him in the 5th and 6th innings. His curveball was nasty early on helping him rack up four strikeouts before the Indians struck for two in the 4th. Lackey's undoing though was inability to locate his other pitches and the Indians took advantage of that.
He had been cruising right along before three straight hits, including two doubles in the 4th, put the Indians out front 2-1. It could have been 3-1 in the 4th but rookie Ryan Kalish's perfect throw nailed Shelley Duncan at the plate.
The 6th inning was what really did Lackey in.
Unable to locate his pitches, he walked the leadoff hitter Jordan Brown then allowed a single to Duncan and a walk to Jayson Nix to load up the sacks full of Indians. He recovered to strikeout Jason Donald but ended his evening with a bases loaded walk to Trevor Crowe that made it 4-1.
Terry Francona brought Manny Delcarmen in and he did his job by getting Asdrubal Cabrera to foul out. But rather than leave MDC in to face the lefty Shin-Soo Choo, Tito went to the bullpen for Dustin Richardson. The move didn't quite work out as planned for Francona as Choo laced a two-run single to push the Indians lead to 6-1.
From that point, Tim Wakefield, pitching on his 44th birthday, kept the Red Sox in the game while they rallied behind the bat of Adrian Beltre, who hit a solo home run in the 7th and a 3-run homer in the 8th. They would only muster up a Marco Scutaro single in the 9th off the Indians closer Chris Perez.
The one thing that was most frustrating about last night's loss was the decisions by third base coach Tim Bogar on sending runners home.
In the 3rd inning, Scutaro led off with a double and went to third on a J.D. Drew fly out. Kevin Cash, in for an injured Kevin Youkilis who left with a jammed right thumb, hit a ball to medium depth left field. Bogar decided to send Scutaro home but Duncan's throw was on the mark and Scutaro was EASILY out at home plate.
It happened again in the 7th inning.
After Beltre's solo blast, Kalish followed with a double. After Bill Hall grounded out, Daniel Nava, up for Mike Cameron who placed on the DL before the game, hit a single to right field. Bogar once again decided to send the runner and Choo gunned down Kalish at home plate. While the play was closer than the one in the 3rd, it was another runner that shouldn't have been sent.
Indians phenom Carlos Santana was injured on the play as well as his knee went in a direction it shouldn't have. Initial tests on him were good but he's on his way bay to Cleveland for an MRI.
Something has to give with Bogar. It really does. How much longer does Francona keep him around if he's going to continue to cost the Red Sox ball games.
We'll be back later with tonight's lineups, batter/pitcher matchups, any news and links from the day but for now enjoy the overnight links after the jump.
