“I have no hard feelings whatsoever. I’m in a good situation here. I learned a lot from them. I got a World Series win with them. I’m not trying to rub anything in anybody’s face whatsoever.” - Lenny DiNardo after his six shutout innings last night
While Lenny DiNardo may be saying all the right […]

Normally when a blogging pitcher is on the mound, you think of Curt Schilling and 38 Pitches or John Lackey over at YardBarker. But tonight’s blogging pitcher has been at it longer than both of them combined. Figure it out yet? Hint; it’s not Dice-K it’s Nate Robertson and his blog over […]

The Sox keep winning and the Blue Jays keep losing with eight and a half games between the first place Sox and last place Jays. Tonight pits two Japanese pitchers against each other in Daisuke Matsuzaka and Tomo Ohka. Matsuzaka and Ohka may have very different expectations from their respective fans, but their […]

Sunday Night Baseball tonight sees Daisuke Matsuzaka make his first appearance on the grand stage that is Yankees/Red Sox. So far this series Red Sox starters have been average. Which against this Yankees lineup more than likely means they’ve acquitted themselves fairly well each giving up five runs in 6+ innings. Tonight, […]

Daisuke Matsuzaka heads north of the border today to lead the A.L. East leading Boston Red Sox into a three game series with the second place Toronto Blue Jays and Gustavo Chacin. Chacin is 5-0 in his career against the Red Sox and looks to hand the Red Sox prized off season acquisition his […]

While Felix Hernandez outdueled Daisuke Matsuzaka yesterday in the Japanese phenom’s home debut, lets not let the circumstance of the day itself be lost on us. Matsuzaka’s debut was a special day regardless of whether or not it ended in a Red Sox win.
I had lucked into tickets to this game through happenstance and […]

Just a quick note as I close up shop at the office and ready myself for my first trip to Fenway Park this season. I lucked into bleacher seats for todays game through the Virtual Waiting Room free-for-all this offseason and lo and behold, its Daisuke vs. Ichiro in Matsuzaka’s first start.
I’ll do […]

For over four months Red Sox fans and the nation of Japan waited with baited breath in anticipation of today, the Major League Baseball debut of Daisuke Matsuzaka. Today, Matsuzaka’s debut was everything that his fans, both old and new, could have hoped.
Over seven innings, the man known as Dice-K, stepped up and […]

The much anticipated debut of Daisuke Matsuzaka is finally upon us. All the talk is over, the speculation done. It’s time to pitch. Reports from Kauffman Stadium have the game temperature around 40 degrees.
I’ll leave you with these two thoughts heading into today’s game, as they sum it up better than I. […]

To find great baseball writing these days can often be difficult. The Internet has often focused on volume and scooping the competition instead of the quality of the written word. However great writing does still exist and to find it you have to look no further than Tom Verducci’s most recent piece on […]