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Post by Admin on Oct 29, 2018 18:49:03 GMT
David Price proved his post-season mettle, Steve Pearce homered twice and Boston beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 on Sunday to finish off a one-sided World Series in five games. A tormented franchise during decades of frustration and despair before ending an 86-year championship drought in 2004, the Red Sox have become baseball's team of the century with four titles in 15 seasons. "It's very special. Seeing all these grown men over there, just acting like kids, that's what it's all about," Price said. Alex Cora's team romped to a 17-2 start and a club-record 108 wins, then went 11-3 in the post-season, dispatching the 100-win New York Yankees and the 103-victory and defending champion Houston Astros in the playoffs. Cora became the first manager from Puerto Rico to win a title and just the fifth rookie manager overall. Pearce, the World Series MVP, hit a two-run homer on Clayton Kershaw's sixth pitch. Solo homers by Mookie Betts in the sixth inning and J.D. Martinez in the seventh quieted the Dodger Stadium crowd, and Pearce added a solo drive off Pedro Baez in the eighth.
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2018 18:49:48 GMT
The city of Boston celebrates the Red Sox's World Series title with a parade on Wednesday, yet another opportunity to break out the duck boats. The Red Sox won the World Series in five games over the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team's fourth championship since 2004 and first since 2013. Since 2001, Boston's sports teams have won a total of 11 titles – five for the Patriots, one for the Bruins and one for the Celtics. The parade starts on Lansdowne Street near Fenway Park, goes Boylston and travels up Tremont Street before taking Cambridge Street to New Sudbury and finishing near Government Center.
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Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2018 18:45:45 GMT
The president, who’d apparently tuned in to watch Game 4 of the World Series, called out Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager Dave Roberts in his late night posting.
The Dodgers lost the game to the Boston Red Sox, 9-6, after having a 4-0 lead, and Trump questioned Roberts’ managerial moves.
The Dodgers blew a 4-0 lead in Saturday’s World Series Game 4. Many criticized Roberts for pulling starter Rich Hill in the seventh inning while the Dodgers were still pitching a shutout, President Donald Trump included.
The Red Sox got a three-run home run from Mitch Moreland shortly after Hill left the game and rallied for a 9-6 win to take a 3-1 lead in the series.
Dodgers fans who apparently agreed with Trump’s take let Roberts have it with a chorus of boos during the pregame introductions ahead of Game 5.
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Post by Admin on Nov 5, 2018 18:47:50 GMT
Left-hander Clayton Kershaw will remain with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Kershaw, who could've used the opt-out in his contract to become a free agent, has instead agreed to a new pact with Los Angeles.
Had Kershaw simply opted in to the final two years of his deal, he would've been paid roughly $65 million over the next two seasons. Instead Kershaw according to multiple reports will receive $93 million over three years plus incentives. So in essence, Kershaw gets an extra year and another $28 million, plus the opportunity to add to the total value via bonuses.
Kershaw, who turns 31 in March, is coming off a 2018 season in which he registered a 2.73 ERA/142 ERA+ and 5.34 K/BB ratio in 26 starts and 161 1/3 innings. For his career, he owns an ERA+ of 159 across parts of 11 major-league seasons, all with the Dodgers.
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Kershaw has to his name seven All-Star appearances, three Cy Young awards, an MVP, 153 wins and a career WAR of 62.1. Despite the mixed bag that is his postseason career (4.32 ERA in 152 playoff innings), Kershaw looks every bit like a future Hall of Famer.
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Post by Admin on Nov 8, 2018 18:50:41 GMT
Dave Dombrowski has the most dramatic disassembling of a champion on his ledger. In 1997, then-Marlins owner Wayne Huizenga claimed $30 million-ish in operating losses and was furious that the county would not finance a new stadium. He ordered his then-GM, Dombrowski, to trade all of his expensive players, who had just won the organization’s first title. By midseason 1998, Dombrowski had traded — among others — Moises Alou, Bobby Bonilla, Kevin Brown, Jeff Conine, Charles Johnson, Al Leiter, Robb Nen, Gary Sheffield and Devon White, slicing the payroll from $53 million to $13 million. By the time John Henry bought the club from Huizenga after the 1998 season, it had lost a franchise-record 108 games. This time, Dombrowski, Boston’s president of baseball operations, has Henry as the owner from the outset. And the payroll — a team record of about $238 million in 2018 — is likely to stay about the same and perhaps even go up, Dombrowski said. Still, Dombrowski conceded there are “tough decisions” this offseason and the near future because retaining the core for the next few years would probably blow the Red Sox payroll beyond $300 million, especially since they used many top prospects to add players such as Craig Kimbrel, Chris Sale and Drew Pomeranz and are not teeming with near-ready, inexpensive options to plug in. “It is unrealistic to think we can keep the now-2018 champion Red Sox together,” Dombrowski said.
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