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TODAY IN RED SOX HISTORY - JULY 3RD
1918: After quitting the team yesterday, Babe
Ruth announces that he has joined the “Chester” team of the Delaware
River Shipbuilding League. The front office threatens injunction,
meanwhile Heinie Wagner tracks down Ruth in Baltimore and convinces him
to return to the team. With out Ruth in the lineup Boston loses to the
A’s 6-0.
1943: In the nightcap Leon Culberson hits for
the cycle to lead the Hubmen to a 12-4 win over the Indians. Culberson
is the forth American League rookie and the third Red Sox rookie to hit
for the cycle. It is also the first time a player has hit for the cycle
in a night game.
1959: Before today’s game Manager Pinky Higgins
is fired, Coach Rudy York is the interim manager for today’s 6-1 loss
to the Orioles.
1978: Capt. Carl hits a RBI double in the third
inning for his 2,800th career hit. Yaz add two more singles in the Red
Sox 12 hit, 9-5 win over the Yankees.
2001: The Paw Sox Izzy Alcantara’s reaction to
an inside pitch was played in sports highlight show word wide, and
forever lives on youtube, prior to his charging the mound Alcantara,
consults “The Way of the Fist” and karate kick catcher Jeremy Salazer
squarely in the chest. His Cobra Kai antics lead to a seven game
suspension and being dropped from the International League All Star
game. He will be called up to Boston’s main roster on September 1st.
RED SOX NEWS, RUMORS AND
UPDATES
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009:
The
Red Sox placed Mike Lowell on the 15-day disabled list with a right hip
strain (retroactive to June 28). The Red Sox are recalling Jeff Bailey
from Pawtucket and inserting him into tonight's lineup.
Monday, June 29th, 2009: On the same day the Red Sox announced that
Mike Lowell will be heading back to Boston to get an injection of Synvisc for his sore hip, it was announced that
outfielder Jonathan Van Every will be done for the season after his
injured left knee was found to be more damaged than expected. In other injury news, shortstop Jed Lowrie
had to be pulled from the Pawtucket Sox game in the 5th inning due to
soreness in his left knee, the same knee that was hit by a pitch last
Tuesday. Lowrie
is in the middlet of his rehab assignment, which began last week after
he returned to the diamond after having wrist surgery in April.
Sunday,
June 21st, 2009:
Terry
Francona today announced that RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka has been placed on
the 15 day disabled list. He hinted that it could take months for the
struggling right hander to recover. Francona also said "It's not going to be a two-week DL thing,"
Dice K had an MRI done yesterday that showed " a little bit of weakness
in his shoulder," but there is no structural damage. Matsuzaka will be
sent to the Red Sox spring training complex in Florida when he begins
his rehab. There is no timetable for his return
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009:
John Smoltz
today that his first start in a Red Sox uniform will come next week on
Tuesday or Wednesday against the Washington Nationals. Smoltz made the announcement during an
interview on the Dan Patrick radio show this morning, saying that he
couldn’t pinpoint the exact date but it would be either of those two
days. He also indicated that he would pitch one last minor league rehab
outing.
Friday, June 12th, 2009:
According to
report this morning by
Maureen Mullen of the Lynn Daily Item, Papelbon was fined $1,000 by
the league earlier this week for violating pace-of-game guidelines. His
infractions have come while he is entering the game. A source told
Mullen that the time from the third out of one half-inning to the first
pitch of the next half-inning is supposed to be 2 minutes 5 seconds for
local TV games, 2:25 for national TV weeknight games, and 2:30 for TV
games on the weekend. According to Mullen's report, it took Papelbon
3:34 between the final out in the bottom of the eighth and the first
pitch in the top of the ninth Wednesday night.
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009:
boston.com
reports that Jacoby Ellsbury has a strained AC joint in his right
shouldertthat he injured in yesterdays game and has no structural
damage. He is out of tonight's series opener against the New York
Yankees. Mark Kotsay gets the start in centerfield.
Today Terry Francona said that Jed Lowrie is getting closer to making
his return. He went on to say that the Sox will wait until after the
Yankees/Sox series to re-evaluate him and determine his rehab
assignment.
Friday, June 5th, 2009:
According to
a report by ESPN's Buster Olney this afternoon, the Atlanta Braves are
one of the teams "in the conversation" with the Red Sox to acquire
righthanded pitcher Brad Penny.
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009: With
Tonight's win, Matsuzaka finally picks up his first win of the 2009
season. Terry Francona notched his 500th win with the Red Sox.
1B/OF Mark Kotsay has been re-activated from the disabled list and the
Sox send Jeff Bailey back to Pawtucket.
Monday, June 1st, 2009: An update on
Red Sox Nation's President and NESN's color commentator, Jerry Remy.
Remy has been on a leave of absence since early May recovering from
side effects of lung cancer surgery he underwent last fall. His update
has been released on boston.com here is the opening statement of the
transcript.
"Hi,
this is Jerry. I just want to thank everybody for the overwhelming
support I've got from you over the last couple of weeks. I've got a
much larger family than I ever anticipated. Hope to be in the booth
very soon."
Sunday,
May 31st, 2009: Terry
Francona makes some bold changes to the line up for today's game in the
final game against the Jays in the 3 games series. Francona takes
Ellsbury from the lead off position and moves him to the 8th spot.
Pedroia will be leading off. This is what Tito had to say with why he
made the bold changes for todays game and the stats were found on
boston.com
Ellsbury,
depsite a recent 22-game hitting streak, ranks 23d among major league
leadoff hitters with a .332 on-base percentage. Ellsbury has 10 walks
in 221 plate appearances this season. Against the lefties, which the
Red Sox are facing today in Toronto starter Ricky Romero, Ellsbury has
a .268 on-base percentage.
Pedroia's
.419 on-base percentage ranks ties him for 13th among all players in
the majors. Pedroia has 28 walks in 217 plate appearances. Ellsbury,
Francona said, may also be able to be more
"You know what, we're facing a lefty,"
Francona said. "We're trying to use some of these guys' on-base skills
[while] at the same time protecting some other guys. And then maybe we
can use other guys' legs maybe more aggressively than we do at the top.
It seems to make sense today. Now, we've got a day off tomorrow.
Thursday,
May 28th, 2009:
Jacoby
Ellsbury's 22 game hit streak comes to an end as he goes 0-3 in today's
final game of the series against the Twins.
Tuesday,
May 26th, 2009: David Oritz
is moved into the 6 spot in todays starting line up.
Jacoby
Ellsbury extends his hitting streak to 21 straight games in the 1st
inning of tonights game.
John Smoltz
threw 60 pitches today in a rehab start with the Portland Seadogs here
in the Granite state today in Manchester. Smoltz threw 36 of his 60
pitches for strikes. He gave up 1 earned run on 3 hits in 3 1/3
innings pitched. His velocity showed on the radar at MerchantAuto.com
stadium to be between 90-92 about 5 mph lower than his average speed.
NHRSN's PLAYER OF THE WEEK
David
Ortiz is this weeks NHRSN Player of the week! Big Papi is back to
the slugger we knew in the month of June. In the 1st two months of the
season he had just 1 HR, in the month of June he has hit 8 round
trippers.
Here
are Ortiz's stats for the week
AB
AVG
HR
RBI
H
R
BB
TB
14
.400
3
7
6
5
2
15
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