September 17th vs Oakland

[mosox]

great win.

[yankeessuck013]

nice job boys, great pitchin continues.

[Cityofchampions33]

It's good that we're winning all these close games lately, this is maybe the 3rd ive seen at least, and Bronson with another strong start.

[yankeessuck013]

I remember a month or so ago the talking heads in the media said that if the Sox and/or Yanks made the postseason, they would lose in the first round because of no pitching. And now I don't think many pitching staffs are better than ours right now. Wake is the man, Schill has shown flashes, Boomer is Boomer, and Clement has gotten over a rough stretch quite well recently. Add to that the fact we can move tonights ace (Bronson) into the pen to compliment Papelbon and Timlin, and our pitching staff should be able to support our offense (once it comes back) He struggled in the 5th and 6th, but that could be attributed to a wet ball. He looked GREAT. If this is the team we go to war with in October, I will like my chances vs any opposing team.

 

Especially with the Fenway magic backing them up.

 

Honorable Mentions: Manny Ramirez, (rbi single, GW homer) Mike Timlin (perfect 9th, 2 K's)

[riverside sluggers]

Well that was an ugly loss me and my girlfriend had witnessed seeing at Boston College, >, it was a bad 4th quarter needless to say--we had everyone not tell us the score of the sox game, and came back to her place to watch the game in its entireity, thank you TIVO!! man sure the offense wasnt there, but as dennis eckersley and tom caron said this was basically the type of games we see in October. Bronson is starting to come around, a no hitter into the 5th inning and though encountered trouble he, Paps and Timlin combined for a 4 hitter 1 run game

 

Good to see Manny break out of his stride, but still I worry for Tek (6 hits in last 50 at bats), Edgar (11 hits in last 65 at bats, his error though did make great DPs) and Trot (9 hits in last 47 at bats). I still give best defensive props to Alex Cora, cant believe Sox just had to give up Ramon Vazquez for this solid D of a player If Sox do hopefully get into playoffs, as it is now definitely have Paps as the 8th inning set up man and Timlin as our closer, 9 pitches all strikes gassing by the A's batters. Heres hoping later on today same game as this one in Sox's favor, but still I think we've waited long enough for a 14-5 type blowout game haha. Kirk Saarloos has been tough on the Sox in the past, Clement hopefully dusted himself off from Toronto

[yankeessuck013]

We're within 2.5 of the best record in the league and 2.5 away from being totally out of the playoffs.

 

It's a crazy game...

[riverside sluggers]

all we need to do is the "bellichick method", one game at a time