Locked in a pennant race with less than a month remaining in the season, getting swept at home by the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates would be a huge setback for the Red Sox. The club will hand the ball to Lucas Giolito to help ensure that doesn’t happen. Giolito (9-2, 3.47) will take the mound for Sunday’s series finale, matching up against Pittsburgh’s Mitch Keller (6-12, 4.35). Giolito is coming off a fabulous performance in Baltimore this past Tuesday in which he threw eight scoreless innings with eight strikeouts in a 5-0 win over the Orioles. The Red Sox will stick…
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The pathway to Gillette is unforgettable for those who can navigate it. However, it is often littered with bruising obstacles. Few know this fact better than Al Fornaro and his staff at Xaverian, as they have captured two consecutive Div. 1 Super Bowl crowns in improbable fashion. The latest title for the program came just last December, when the Hawks defeated Needham in a 14-7 rock fight to claim hardware. Here we stand today, and Xaverian appears poised for a three-peat, with much of its roster slated to return this September. “Every year is different,” Fornaro said. “I know people…
This really felt like a game of two games within the same one. It started up being a pitcher’s duel between Mitch, Keller and Lucas Giolito— well really just a lack of offense on both sides. Giolito definitely got bailed out in the top of the second inning with a fantastic diving grab by Rafaela in centerfield.The 5th is where things got dicey.A ground rule double by Horwirtz to lead off the inning set a jam in motion right away, but a fantastic pick-off by Gio led us to think that this wouldn’t come to anything. Three walks and a…
Great news: The NFL season finally starts this week. The Patriots kick off their season on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET against Tom Brady’s Raiders, though the GOAT won’t be back in Foxboro to watch the game. With less than a week to go before the season begins, Patriots fans have a lot of questions about their team. We answer them in our weekly mailbag. @scootgoestweet: What is the general vibe around the team regarding Rhamondre? Henderson is getting all of the hype but they will still need Rhamondre for a lot of carries and to hold onto the football.…
Ranking the top 10 defensive players in NFL history… 2. Reggie White Selected in the first round of the 1984 NFL Supplemental Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles after two USFL seasons, White quickly established himself as a dominant defensive end, earning the nickname “Minister of Defense” for his on-field prowess and off-field ministry. Over eight seasons with the Eagles, White set a franchise record with 124 sacks, including a league-high 21 in the strike-shortened 1987 season (1.75 per game average). He earned NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1987 and pioneered free agency by signing with the Green Bay…
BOSTON (AP) — Jarren Duran hit an inside-the-park homer, Lucas Giolito pitched six effective innings and the Boston Red Sox beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 on Sunday to avert a three-game sweep.In a tight race for one of three American League wild cards, the Red Sox won for the eighth time in 11 games.Alexander Canario hit a solo homer over the Green Monster for Pittsburgh, which had won nine of 12.Duran’s three-run homer into the Fenway Park triangle in right-center field capped a four-run fifth against starter Mitch Keller (6-13), pushing Boston ahead 4-1.Coming off his best start of the season,…
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The Red Sox have had a hard time scoring recently, and Jarren Duran’s struggles have been among the reasons why. Entering Sunday the outfielder was batting .205 over the past two weeks, a stretch where he’s primarily batted third. Fortunately, as manager Alex Cora often says, speed doesn’t slump. Duran broke out in a big way Sunday, hitting a three-run inside-the-park home run to help power the Red Sox to a 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was the first inside-the-parker of his big league career and helped the Red Sox avoid what would have been a disappointing three-game…
Ranking the top 10 defensive players in NFL history… 1. Lawrence Taylor Drafted second overall by the New York Giants in the 1981 NFL Draft out of the University of North Carolina, Taylor quickly established himself as a revolutionary outside linebacker, earning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in his debut season. Over his entire 13-season career with the Giants, Taylor anchored the “Big Blue Wrecking Crew” defense, leading to two Super Bowl wins (XXI, XXV). He recorded double-digit sacks annually from 1984 to 1990, peaking at 20.5 in 1986, when he became the…
It didn’t come as a surprise when the Red Sox moved Walker Buehler to the bullpen last week given the right-handed starter struggled in the rotation. But it was expected the two-time MLB All-Star would be given some time to gain comfortability in the ‘pen seeing how he started 162 of 164 games since 2018. That was before circumstances changed, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow said after the Red Sox released Buehler on Friday afternoon. “Our hope and our expectation was we were going to be able to provide enough runway to give him a chance to settle in and…