Weekly News

After today's 9-6, 17 inning heartbreaker against the Orioles-- the Sox concluded a miserable 1-5 week where they fell from 10-11 to 11-16 over the course of the week. For the second time, the Player of the Week is Mike Aviles, who went .225/1/6 and improved to .265/5/19 on the season-- a far cry from his rough 2011 numbers. Our Pitcher of the Week is Jon Lester, who went six innings and allowed three runs in the thirteen inning loss on Friday night. He is having a decent year so far at 1-2/4.62/25 as the staff ace. The Performance of the Week belongs to Mike Aviles on Monday's 11-6 win over the A's. Aviles went 2-5, scoring a pair of runs and driving in four runs, including a three-run homer in the victory. The Game of the Week was today's game against the Orioles. Even though they lost, it was a great game and they came back from an early 5-0 deficit, despite losing in 17 hard fought innings. In the upcoming week, the Sox will head to Kansas City to play the Royals for a three game set. Afterwards, they will head back home to play the Indians in a four game series (I'm going to the Saturday game!!!). While this was a disappointing week, hopefully the Sox can jump back next week.

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This was a bad week for the Red Sox, as they went 2-5 and fell to only a game ahead of the Rays for the wild card. Our Player of the Week is Jacoby Ellsbury, as he had quite a week, going .382/4/7, as he is having a stellar season at .322/31/103 as this is boiling down to be the tightest race ever for Player of the Week with Gonzalez and Ellsbury tied entering the final week. Our Pitcher of the Week is Josh Beckett, which is kind of sad, considering that he allowed 6 runs in 7 1/3 innings and earned the loss against the Orioles. The Performance of the Week goes to Jacoby Ellsbury, as on Monday (9/19/11), he went 3-6 with 3 runs and 2 RBIs, including an inside-the-park home run. The Game of the Week was undoubtably last night, as the Sox won 7-4 in 14 innings capped on a 3-run homer by Ellsbury. Next week, the Red Sox will play a 3-game series in Baltimore and then, hopefully, head to Texas/Detroit for the ALDS.

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After last night's 4-0 win, the Sox concluded a very nice 5-2 week, that would move them from 1 game behind to 2 games up on the Yankees. Our Player of the Week is Adrian Gonzalez, who had a fantastic week, batting .393/5/9, he is now having a great season at .345/23/103. Our Pitcher of the Week, for his 2nd time, is Andrew Miller who had a very good start against the Rangers, going 6 1/3 shutout innings, striking out 6, as he is having his best season in the Major Leagues at 6-1/4.42/39. As so often happens, the Performance of the Week also went to the Player of the Week, as onTuesday (8/23/11), Adrian Gonzalez went 3-4 with 2 home runs and 3 RBIs. The Game of the Week was Thursday (8/25/11), as the Sox just played dominant baseball in a 6-0 win. Miller pitched well, Adrian Gonzalez hit 2 home runs, a good game. In the upcoming week, the Sox will take an off-day tomorrow, then the Yankees will come to town for 3 games and the Rangers will come to town for 3 games.

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I got home late from a party last night, so I've decided not to make the game post and just do the Weekly News. However, the Sox won 6-1 as Darnell McDonald and Carl Crawford hit homers and Jon Lester was quite good. The Sox had a very good week though, going 4-3, losing 1-2 against the Rays and winning 3-1 against the Royals. Our Player of the Week, Jacoby Ellsbury moves into a tie with Adrian Gonzalez for the lead in Player of the Weeks with 5 awards. This week, Ellsbury batted .294/2/5 despite missing two games. The Pitcher of the Week is Jon Lester, who went 2-0/1.38/11 in a good week, he is now 13-6/3.16/146. Our Performance of the Week when on Thursday (8/18/11), Dustin Pedroia went 3-4 with 3 RBIs as he saved a game for us. The Game of the Week was Friday (8/19/11), as in all honesty it was good to see us just crush the Royals 7-1 after the Rays series. Next week, we will play a 4-game series in Texas against the Rangers, then play a 3-game series at home against the A's.

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After today's 5-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners, the Red Sox concluded their week with a 3-3 record. They won a 2-1 series against the Twins and lost 1-2 to the Mariners. For the 3rd time this season, our Player of the Week of David Ortiz. Ortiz had a great week, getting a hit in every game and batting at a very respectable .500/3/7 clip to make him .300/24/79 on the season, as he leads the Sox in homers. For his first time, our Pitcher of the Week is new acquisition Erik Bedard, who threw 5 innings and allowed 2 runs on Tuesday (8/9/11), he is now 4-7/3.55/98 on the season and 0-0/4.50/11 with the Sox. The Performance of the Week goes to David Ortiz on Monday (8/8/11) as he went 4-5 with 3 runs and 3 RBIs, including a 2-run homer. The Game of the Week also goes to Monday (8/8/11) as the Sox came back from a 5-1 deficit to win 8-6 in a great game where Tim Wakefield nearly got win #200. The Sox will take a day off tomorrow before a double-header against the Rays on Tuesday and a game versus the Rays on Wednesday. They then head to Kansas City for a 4-game series in an interesting week.

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This was not a bad week for the Red Sox, they went 4-3 for the second straight week after tying 2-2 with the Indians and beating the Yankees 2-1. Our Player of the Week, for his 4th time is Jacoby Ellsbury, who had a great week, going .276/2/10, along with 2 walkoffs!!! He is now having a great season, as he is batting .318/19/72 this season. Our Pitcher of the Week is, well, pretty much who it's been all year, Josh Beckett, who won his 9th this year by going just 0-0/2.25/12 in 12 innings. He is having a great season at 9-4/2.17/127, and as evidence of last night, he has simply dominated our arch-rivals, the Yankees. I think that, if you paid attention to baseball this week, the Performance of the Week would be pretty clear, as on Saturday (8/6/11), Jacoby Ellsbury batted 2-4 with a home run and 6 RBIs in an awesome game for him. Now, for the game of the week, this one's a little tougher, since the Red Sox walked off 3 times this week (!!!!) but my answer was surprisingly easy. Seeing as last night's game (8/7/11) was against the Yankees, and we were behind in the 9th, it pretty much takes the cake. Next week, the Red Sox will play a 3-game series in Minnesota against the Twins, then they will hit the road and play 3 in Seattle after an off day on Thursday.