... batter of the game, and then nothing. He simply powered through the dangerous Boston lineup time and time again. He didn't allow another hit until the seventh ... Chad Bradford all pitched to a batter or two in the eighth, as Boston loaded the bases with two out and JD Drew coming ... , ground ball. His first ever save. In game 7 of the American League Championship Series. This kid is something special. ...

... be saying it before 2009. I don't even need to know what teams make what moves where. This is already a certainty. The American League East is the best division in baseball, and nobody else is even close. Obviously, this isn't ... probably becoming somewhere between 1B and elite bats in '09. They are going to be good. Boston Red Sox. Despite a plethora of injuries and off-field issues, won 95 ...

... time in the eighth or ninth inning of game five, the Rays would have likely clinched in Boston. However, the Rays were lucky--game five was not an elimination game and afforded them a ... face elimination, and more importantly, how important to get over it and put it in the past. Congratulations to them, though Boston shouldn't lose heart--they gritted through it and gave baseball a game five that ...

... lead slip away late in Game 5, and losing at home in Game 6, the Rays beat Boston's best pitcher to advance to the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies. The star of the game was Matt Garza, ... 23-year old lefty David Price. The 2007 No. 1 pick out of Vanderbilt, who didn't make his first major league appearance until September 14, struck out J.D. Drew, and then retired the side in the ...

... . Through all of that at least there was James Johnson, George Sherrill, and Lance Cormier. Boston Red Sox NAME IP FIP+ Jonathan Papelbon 69.3 204 Devorn Hansack 6.7 203 Michael ... J. Ryan 58 119 Brian Wolfe 22 114 Dustin McGowan 111.3 112 Brandon League 33 107 Jeremy Accardo 12.3 105 Jesse Litsch 176 101 Jason Frasor 47. ...

Does this pitch stand between the Rays and a 3-1 lead in the American League Championship Series? 5:05 p.m., Boston, Mass.: The Red Sox are stretching in one of the few remaining sun-washed corners of Fenway Park and the Rays have yet to take the field as the teams ready for Game 4. Tampa Bay can take a 3-1 lead in the series if Andy Sonnanstine ...