Posts tagged as: Tim Wakefield

Friday MLB Betting Preview – Orioles at Red Sox

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Baltimore Orioles at Boston Red Sox Baltimore opens up its 10-game road trip that will also take them to Detroit and Texas before the All-Star break.  The Orioles come into Boston winners of five of their last seven games and hold a 5-4 season series advantage over the Red Sox.  This may change over the [...]

Saturday MLB on FOX Betting Preview – Dodgers at Red Sox

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A pair of veteran right-handers are on display in the second game of this interleague series between two historic franchises. Los Angeles Dodgers at Boston Red Sox Los Angeles fell 10-6 in the series opener against Boston at Fenway Park and has dropped five straight in interleague play.  This series marks just the second time [...]

Sunday MLB Handicapper Report

Sunday MLB Handicapper Report  (Complete) Baltimore Orioles The Orioles and Nationals meet in the rubber game of their three-game series.  With a win, Baltimore would capture its first road series victory since 9/11-9/13/09 at New York. Baltimore is 5-8 in daytime games this season (-80).  The Orioles are also just 4-9 against left-handed starters (-320). [...]

Checking In On The AL East

Sometimes you really have to shake your head. Toronto GM J.P. Ricciardi set a deadline today of July 28 for moving Roy Halladay. He says he has yet to see a deal he likes, and he says that dealing Halladay is now unlikely. Ricciardi is a moron. If he doesn’t manage to get this one [...]

MLB 2009 Midpoint Plus

Okay, baseball fans, we are just about there—baseball’s midpoint. Actually, the All-Star break comes a bit past the midpoint of the season. Each team has already played over 81 games. It’s been an interesting season (to say the least). Here are a few observations.

Monday Notes

I can’t wait to see Tim Wakefield pitch in the all-star game. He’s a pleasure to watch, and he deserves to be there for the first time. There isn’t a high profile knuckleballer in the NL right now, so it could be fun to see some of these big guys facing a knuckleballer – perhaps [...]

Baseball, and a Little Golf

I was sad to see yesterday that Dontrelle Willis was held out of his next start. Nobody is saying it, but you have to imagine that it will be very hard for him to find his way back into the rotation. He showed some promise in his early starts, but he’s been getting increasingly ineffective [...]

A Look At Four Pitchers

I couldn’t be happier for any player than I am for Dontrelle Willis after last night. In his second start of the year he earned his first win in almost 20 months. He was pretty spectacular, too – allowing just one hit in six and a third shutout innings. His first start, six days earlier, [...]

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