Destination Red Sox Nation is our look at how the minor league teams of the Boston Red Sox fare each night. Game story and box score links as well as links to team rosters, team stats and league standings are after the jump.
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Evening Red Sox Delight - 7/27 [SOX & Dawgs]
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It should be an emotion filled evening tonight as the Boston Red Sox look for another win tonight against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in game two of a three-game set at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
Tonight's game will start at 10:05 p.m. and will be shown on NESN in the Red Sox television market. The game can be seen in the Angels television market on Fox Sports West. If you can't catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to the game on the 2010 Red Sox radio network.
John Lackey will make his first start at Angel Stadium since leaving the Angels in the offseason as a free agent. He's made 20 starts so far in 2010 and is 9-5 with a 4.36 ERA. He's faced his former club once this season and in his career, picking up the win back on May 5th after allowing one run over seven innings. Lackey had made 112 starts at Angel Stadium (all in an Angels uniform) and has 49-32 record with a 3.72 ERA.
Jered Weaver has made 21 starts in 2010 for the Angels and is 9-6 with a 3.22 ERA. Weaver hasn't faced the Red Sox in 2010 and is 2-2 with a 3.19 ERA in eight starts against them in his career. He leads the American League in strikeouts with 147
Lineups, batter/pitcher matchups, and links after the jump.
With the Boston Red Sox clinging to a one-run lead over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last night, J.D. Drew came to the plate with two runners on base. He ended up getting a good pitch to hit and he got all of it.
Unfortunately for him though, he needed to hit it about an inch further to get a home run as the ball went off the top of the wall for a two-run double.
Here's the video for you to enjoy:
Judging by the way the first three innings went for Clay Buchholz last night, it looked like it might be a long night for him and the Boston Red Sox. But as the game continued, he got stronger and with the help of the bat of David Ortiz, Buchholz picked up his 11th win of the season in the 6-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
He still looked a little rusty early on, especially during the 2nd inning when he had to do his impression of Houdini-K to get out of a bases loaded no-out jam.
Buchholz started the inning by walking Hideki Matsui and allowing a single to Alberto Callapso. He followed that up by plunking Mike Napoli to load up the bases. But young Clay beared down and got Juan Rivera and Jeff Mathis to pop out to Kevin Youkilis at first and retired Erick Aybar on a fly out to left.
That inning seemed to give Buchholz the confidence he needed going forward. In the 3rd inning, he allowed two hits with his pitch count nearing 70. From that point forward though, he was virtually unhittable. He struck out the side in the 4th on his way to retiring eleven straight batters before a Rivera single in the 7th. He got out of that inning and handed over the game to the bullpen with a 2-1 lead and we all know how's that has gone lately.
Buchholz had good life on his fastball but it was his curveball and change up that really made the difference for him. You can see how he's matured over the last year as he probably wouldn't have been able to escape that bases loaded jam. But this is a new year and a new Clay who finally won't have to hear his name brought up in trade rumors.
Scott Atchison has been gaining the confidence of skipper Terry Francona over the past few months and it was shown last night as Tito brought him in for the 8th. Normally Daniel Bard would have been in but he had pitched the day before in Seattle and has been used a lot lately.
The move almost paid off but Atchison left a fastball out over the plate that Matsui cranked out of the ballpark to make it 4-3. Jonathan Papelbon finished it off with a four-out save.
Nonetheless though, it was a good win for the Red Sox last night, one they needed to keep pace with the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays. They got contributions from David Ortiz (two homers), J.D. Drew and Victor Martinez in his return to the lineup.
Now they'll hope John Lackey can pitch them to another win in his return to Anaheim tonight. 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 by hitting the read more button below.
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Destination Red Sox Nation is our look at how the minor league teams of the Boston Red Sox fare each night. Game story and box score links as well as links to team rosters, team stats and league standings are after the jump.
no commentsIf you're an UConn Huskies fan and you're not doing anything on Thursday, you might want to check out the ESPN family of networks.
If you do decide to tune in, there's a pretty good chance that you'll catch UConn head football coach Randy Edsall as he'll be making numerous appearances on ESPN's various shows throughout the day.
Here's the schedule of Edsall's appearances (appearances and times subject to change):
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Evening Red Sox Delight - 7/26 [SOX & Dawgs]
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The Boston Red Sox are hoping that Anaheim is a little nicer to them than Seattle was as they finish up a 10-game road trip with a three-game set against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
Tonight's game will start at 10:05 p.m. and will be shown on NESN in the Red Sox television market. The game can be seen in the Angels television market on Fox Sports West. If you can't catch the television broadcast, you can always listen to the game on the 2010 Red Sox radio network.
Clay Buchholz looks to shake off the rust in his second start since returning from the disabled list. He's made 16 starts for the Red Sox and is 10-5 with a 2.81 ERA. He's faced the Angels once this year back on May 3rd, picking up the win after allowing four runs in 5 2/3 innings. Buchholz has made four career starts against the Angels and is 2-2 with a 6.35 ERA. He's made one career start at Angel Stadium of Anaheim and took the loss after allowing four runs in 4 2/3 innings back in 2008. Ironically enough, that start and loss came against John Lackey.
Fresh off his trade from the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday, Dan Haren gets thrown into the fire tonight for the Angels. Haren made 21 starts for the Diamondbacks and was 7-8 with a 5.60 ERA. He faced the Red Sox back on June 17th with the D'backs taking the loss after allowing six runs (four earned) in 5 2/3 innings. Haren has made seven starts in his career against the Red Sox and is 2-4 with a 3.14 ERA.Lineups, batter/pitcher matchups, and links after the jump.
