2008 MLB All-Star Break is Set
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The stage is set for MLB baseball’s midsummer classic.
The 2008 MLB baseball season will be featuring their midseason All-Star break to showcase some of the best baseball players we have in the world today.
The 2008 MLB All-Star Weekend is always scheduled right in the middle of the baseball season to give back to the sports’ fans supporting the sport since day one.
So who got the invite?
The 2008 MLB All-Stars were named last Sunday and it was no surprise that four of the defending champions Boston Red Sox were selected for the American League All-Stars led by team captain Manny Ramirez.
Ramirez will be joined by Red Sox teammates David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis. However, as great as it would be seeing ‘Big Papi’ in action, Ortiz will be forced to miss the All-Star game with an injured wrist.
Red Sox rivals, the New York Yankees, also have their own stars selected to represent the American League. Yankees team captain Derek Jeter leads the Yankee All-Stars.
Joining Jeter in the American League All-Star team is slugger Alex Rodriguez and probably the best closer in baseball, Mariano Rivera.
For the National League All-Star team; Alfonso Soriano, Kosuke Fukudome and Geovany Soto will look to represent the Chicago Cubs proudly. They will be joined by Cubs teammates Kerry Wood, Ryan Dempster, Aramis Ramirez and Carlos Zambrano.
Also starting for the National League team…
Yankees – Red Sox Game 2 in NY
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Game 2 of the four-game season series between the Yankees and the Red Sox is this Saturday.
One of the most storied rivalry in all of sports continue this 2008 MLB baseball season this Saturday as the second of a four-game season seriesm resume at Yankee Stadium.
You read it, one of the longest, most bitter and most storied rivalries in professional sports will explode once again as the New York Yankees host bitter rivals, Boston Red Sox in a four-game season series at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY.
For over 100 years, 
the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees have been chief rivals, compounded by their geographic proximity. Since the inception of the wild card team and an added Division Series, the rivals have squared off in the American League championship series three times, with the Yankees winning twice in 1999 and 2003 before 2004 saw Boston celebrating.
In addition to that, both teams have met each other in the last regular season series of a season to decide the title in numerous occasions. Boston won one in 1904 before the Yankees bounced back in 1949. The most recent one was back in 2005 when the Yankees won again to capture the pennant.
Since Boston’s defeat of the New York Yankees in the seven-game American League championship series back in 2004, the rivalry has become more intense than ever before.
In their previous meeting last April 17, the Red Sox won the game 7-5 after…
Can Boston Red Sox dominate the American League in MLB Baseball again?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The American League is still Boston’s turf.
The 2008 MLB baseball season is here as the Red Sox begin their quest to become champions of baseball for the second straight year.
Like last season, everybody’s still so fixated on the American League compared to the National League. While NBA fans favor the Western conference more than the East, baseball has this one.
Defending champions Boston Red Sox lead the pack from the American League East while the Chicago White Sox and the Los Angeles Angels lead the Central and West divisions respectively.
Boston Red Sox are still coming out strong after winning the MLB World Series last season. They have a 43-28 win-loss record, with a decent 7-3 showing in their last 10 games.
In the Central division, the Chicago White Sox, with a 38-30 win-loss mark, lead. These guys seem to have the motivation this season to win it all. Take their last game against the Colorado Rockies for instance, Chicago beat Colorado 5-4 after rallying in the seventh inning for three runs, giving the South Siders their ninth straight win at U.S. Cellular Field.
In the West Coast, the 41-28 record of the Los Angeles Angels gave them the top spot in this division. With Chone Figgins back at the top of the Angels’ rotation, the Angels are looking like solid contenders for the World Series title.
The Angels’ offense seemed to be missing…
Colorado Rockies Cinderella-Like Story Ended Earlier Than Expected
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Colorado Rockies magical season ended on a sad note losing 4-3 to the Boston Red Sox and a MLB World Series sweep at Coors Field Sunday night.
The Colorado Rockies could not hold off the blistering pace set by the Boston Red Sox from the start, The Rockies went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position and 1-for-12 with runners on base as the Red Sox hindered the Rockies’ offense throughout the series. The Rockies only hit .226 with 10 runs in all four games.
As we all know the magnificent run they made to reach the MLB baseball World Series, the Rockies won 14 of their last 15 regular-season games, they won seven straight postseason games to make it 21 of 22. But Sunday night, it was all history.
After a month of playing near-flawless baseball — getting all the breaks to overcome the Padres for the National League Wild Card before sweeping the Phillies and the Diamondbacks in the National League playoffs — the Rockies wound up on the other end of the good baseball and good fortune.
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“When you talk about us playing well, winning 21 out of 22, we had a lot of confidence,” Jamey Carroll said. “You can see that in that team. They had tons of confidence. The way they were playing, just the way they would run the bases, you could see it.
Colorado Rockies Are Going To The World Series For The First Time!
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
It’s been a Cinderella story for the Colorado Rockies. Two weeks ago, the San Diego Padres were one strike away from eliminating them from the wild-card race when the Padres went up against the Milwaukee Brewers. But then, Milwaukee’s Tony Gwynn Jr. hit a tying, two-out, two-strike triple off Padres pitcher Trevor Hoffman that gave the Colorado Rockies a fighting chance.
The next day, The Colorado Rockies went heads up with the San Diego Padres, and won one. The night after that, the Rockies beat the Padres in a 13-inning, National League wild-card tie-breaker match. And ever since then, the Colorado Rockies have been undefeated, going through 20 wins in 21 games.
The latest achievement of the Colorado Rockies was a 4-0 sweep in the National League Championship Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, which give them the National League pennant and a trip to the 2007 World Series. It’ll be the first trip of the Colorado Rockies to the World Series Championships since the franchise’s inaugural season in Major League Baseball back in 1993.
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