{"id":9129,"date":"2012-08-14T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2012-08-14T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:40:08","slug":"boston-red-sox-take-on-the-boston-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/boston-red-sox-take-on-the-boston-orioles\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox Take on the Boston Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Boston Red Sox<\/a> are battling to stay in the game, with a dismal record of 2-2 wins, hoping for a reversal in their fortunes as they pit themselves\u00a0 against\u00a0 their arch-rivals, the Baltimore Orioles<\/a>.\u00a0 The situation looks grim.\u00a0 The Orioles are ahead in the American League stats, with 62 wins against Boston’s 57 to 59 record.\u00a0 Red Sox fans are optimistic, however, predicting two out of three wins against the Orioles.<\/p>\n

Much of their optimism hinges on pitcher, Josh Beckett.\u00a0 Beckett has had a difficult season, after allowing eight runs in five plus innings against the formidable Texas Rangers<\/a>.\u00a0 Earlier, in a July 31st game, he had been forced from the plate in the third inning after suffering from back spasms.\u00a0 He says he feels fine now, but in order to bring the Red Sox back into the standings, he needs to beat his record of four tries against the Boston Orioles and no wins.<\/p>\n

The Red Sox are going to need some good batters, as Oriole pitcher, Wei-Yin Chan, has a record of knocking them out.\u00a0 Chen’s merciless pitch brought the Orioles home with a 4-0 win against the Tampa Blue Rays last Saturday.\u00a0 This will be the third time Chen has gone up against the Red Sox, and he’s feeling confident.\u00a0 He was the pitcher in the June 6 game at Fenway Park, where they beat the Red Sox 2-1.<\/p>\n

They just might have that batter in Dustin Pedroia.\u00a0 Batting .378, Pedroia thinks, feels and lives for baseball.\u00a0 He wants his team to win, and he proves it through example.\u00a0 He was furious during a Rangers game when he was called out by first base umpire, Paul Neuert, after he checked his swing, but the umpire said he went around.\u00a0 After arguing with Neuert, he was ejected from the game, only the second time this has happened in his career.\u00a0 Pedroia is determined not to lose his cool again, but he’s just as determined to prove to Chen he can strike that ball home.<\/p>\n

Rookie player, Will Middlebrooks, weakened the Rangers’ lead when he pinch-hit a three-runner homer into the seats, but it looks like he’ll be out for the rest of the season.\u00a0 He cracked the bones in his wrist when he was hit by a 96 mph fastball, thrown by Cleveland Indians<\/a> player, Esmil Rogers.\u00a0 Middlebrooks said he felt the crack but didn’t know whether it was his glove or his wrist until he returned to the stand.\u00a0 Manager Bobby Valentine reports the bones weren’t displaced.\u00a0 They just need time to heal.<\/p>\n

It will be a healing time for the entire team if they win their games against the Orioles.\u00a0 They have the will and the determination, but they might also need a little luck.\u00a0 The Orioles are making a strong stand this year, just five games behind the Yankees, and with Chan coming in hot and heavy, Pedrioa is going to have to swing with all he’s got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Boston Red Sox are battling to stay in the game, with a dismal record of 2-2 wins, hoping for a reversal in their fortunes as they pit themselves\u00a0 against\u00a0 their arch-rivals, the Baltimore Orioles.\u00a0 The situation looks grim.\u00a0 The Orioles are ahead in the American League stats, with 62 wins against Boston’s 57 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}