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08/23/2009 - 11:23pm
Yanks blast off on Beckett, Red Sox in 8-4 win
By: Mike Petraglia

Derek Jeter homered on the game's first pitch and Hideki Matsui added a pair of home runs as the Yankees rocked Josh Beckett for a career-high five homers in a 8-4 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park. The Yankees claimed two of the three games in the weekend series and leave town with a 7 1/2 game lead in the A.L. East. Beckett threw 120 pitches over eight innings, allowing nine hits and eight runs. Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano also homered for the Yankees. The Red Sox open a four-game series with the Chicago White Sox on Monday at Fenway Park. For more, visit the Full Count blog.  


08/23/2009 - 9:49pm
Report: Red Sox deal for Wagner in jeopardy
By: Alex Speier

According to Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com, the Red Sox' efforts to acquire reliever Billy Wagner from the Mets are in "serious jeopardy" due to Boston's unwillingness to grant two conditions that Wagner and his agent, Bean Stringfellow, have established for the pitcher to waive his no-trade clause. Wagner and Stringfellow want the Sox to guarantee that they will not pick up his $8 million option for 2010, and also want the Sox to commit to not offering the pitcher salary arbitration.
 
The two conditions, according to the report, are designed to make the pitcher as attractive as possible as he seeks a job as a closer for the 2010 season. The Sox, on the other hand, would likely want to have either the chance to control Wagner's 2010 rights on what could be a relatively affordable $8 million option (a reasonable...

08/23/2009 - 9:15pm
Peabody thumped at LLWS, 14-0
By: admin

Luke Ramirez struck out 11 and Andy Rios hit two two-run homers in a 12-run sixth inning that led Chula Vista, Calif., past Peabody, Mass., 14-0 at the Little League World Series on Sunday. The win clinched a berth in the next round for California. Sunday's game was tight early after California's potent bats couldn't get going against Massachusetts starter Matt Hosman, who struck out 10 in four-plus innings. Things changed in the sixth, when California sent 17 hitters to the plate against two relievers. Twelve straight batters reached base and 11 runs scored with two outs.


08/23/2009 - 9:12pm
Wagner: 'Let [Papelbon] be 38 and have Tommy John surgery'
By: Alex Speier

According to Jon Heyman of SI.com, Mets reliever Billy Wagner expressed displeasure with the comments made by Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon to WEEI.com on Saturday about the impact that the left-hander might have if acquired by the Red Sox.
 
"[W]hen he walks in my shoes then i'll say something," Heyman, via Twitter, quoted Wagner as saying. "[L]et him be 38 and have tommy john surgery."
 
On Sunday, Papelbon clarified that he believed that the acquisition of Wagner would unquestionably make the Red Sox bullpen better. All the same, he suggested that the matter was "not cut and dried."
 
“It’s not that it shakes the balance it’s just that you have that little...

08/23/2009 - 7:42pm
Penny: 'Whatever I have to do to pitch, I'll do'
By: Alex Speier

On a day when Red Sox pitcher Brad Penny was told that there is no scheduled time for his next start, the right-hander could say little about the turn of events. Penny (7-8, 5.61) is 1-5 with a 7.82 ERA in his last seven starts. His current outlook is unclear, as the right-hander suggested that he does "not really" have a sense of how he fits into the team's plans going forward this year.
 

"Whatever I have to do to pitch, I’ll do," said Penny. "That’s all I can tell you right now."
 

The Sox currently plan to have Penny available out of the bullpen, if necessary, to pitch long relief behind Tim Wakefield on Wednesday (in the knuckleballer's first start of the second half) and Junichi Tazawa on Thursday. If Penny does not pitch in relief in either of those games, he is scheduled to throw a simulated game on Friday.
 

"We don't just want him to be a reliever,...

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