Baseball Historians

When in god’s name did the city of Boston become so freaking cool? It’s seems as though every year, four new movies are set in Boston. The market is officially flooded for Boston in popular culture. You have the smartest people, your sports…

Just three years after breaking their curse, the Red Sox did it again and they finished up a four game sweep over the Rockies to win the 2007 World Series.  The Red Sox scored their runs one inning at a time and while, like Saturday, the Rockies got close but never had the lead.  David [...]

Well, the Rockies are now down 3-0.  We all know just one team has come back from that and that is the Rockies opposition just three years ago.  And to make it worse, the Rockies have a starter who hasn’t thrown since in over two months.  Still, it starts with just one win and if [...]

The Red Sox made it six straight postseason wins and three straight in this series against the Rockies as they now just have to win one of their next four to win their second World Series in four years.  The big inning was the third when the Red Sox jumped out to a 6-0 lead.  [...]

The offense wasn’t there like it was the night before, but the pitching was just as good as Curt Schilling and the Red Sox pen pitched Boston to a 2-1 win.  Schilling gave up the lone run in 5 1/3 innings while Hideki Okajima was awesome with 2 1/3 perfect innings.  Jon Papelbon closed things [...]

Ouch.  Jeff Francis probably still doesn’t know what hit him as the Red Sox hitters did a number on the Rockies pitching staff.  Francis was tagged for six runs in four innings in his start while Franklin Morales was pummelled for seven runs in the fifth inning.  This game was over pretty quickly and you [...]

Dominating pitching?  Check.  Heavy hitting?  Check.  Give Pitcher Big Early Lead?  Check.
The Red Sox took it to the Rockies last night.  Before the game could even really get started, the Red Sox had a 3-0 lead and by the end of the fifth inning, they had thirteen runs.  Josh Beckett was very good on a [...]