The Boston Red Sox are home against the infamous Bronx Bombers and this is sure to be a great weeekend in baseball. As most baseball or sports fans know it just doesn't get any better than watching your favorite team go head to head against their archrivals.
The Red Sox and Yankees rivalry goes back to when the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees and that is where Red Sox fans have known all too well for an 86 year stretch, "The Curse of the Bambino". Since the sale in 1920 the Red Sox went from 1918 until 2004 without winning a World Series.
The NY Yankees have been extremely successful and are recognized as the greatest baseball franchise in baseball history. They have won 26 World Series starting in 1923 and thus the rivalry was born.
In 2007 the Red Sox hope to get back on the winning track, They went out and spent $103.1 million for Japanese phenom named Daisuke Matsuzaka (aka) here in Beantown as Dice K. The K stands for strikeouts.
The Red Sox pitching so far this season has been pretty good. Josh Beckett is 3-0 and goes against the Yankees later this afternoon at 3:55 pm. He has done a great job and to no surprise to fans here in Boston.
Curt Schilling has pitched well except for his first outing and up until he allowed Alex Rodriguez to go deep on him last night in the 4th inning he had pitched 16 consecutive shutout innings. Pretty good if you ask me.
Dice K's record is 1-2 but he has shown he is a feisty pitcher and although he has lost two games he is by far an excellent pitcher. Just wait and see. Part of the reason the Sox have lost with him on the mound is because he has not had any run support. The Sox end up running into the other teams Ace pitcher.
In last nights game the Sox fell behind 2-0 in the 4th on Arod's HR and in the 5th Arod belted another HR with 2 men on base making it 5-2 Yanks. The Sox got their two runs when captain Jason Varitek went deep off of starter Andy Pettitte. The Yanks extended their lead to 6-2 in the top of the 8th.
The bottom of the 8th inning saw the Red Sox make a fantastic comeback by scoring 5 runs in the bottom half of the inning and grab a 7-6 lead that they would not relinquish.
Coco Crisp was the hero in this game with his triple in the bottom of the 8th to tie the game. A clutch hit off one of the best relief pitchers in baseball history, Mariano Rivera, who Coco had not had a hit off of in 6 tries. That was pretty exciting especially if you are a Sox fan.
One win does not make a season but it does make for great sports talk and it is a great rivalry, 17 more games to go against the Yanks. Ah, the baseball gods must be very happy to see such two great teams play some great ball.
GO SOX!!!
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Sorry George, looks like the Sox got the best of your boys this time.
Wow...so this is what you've been doing! Go Sox!!!!