Coco Crisp

reinke lose a game this year?) but also upon an underappreciated lineup that is dynamic at the top. Coco Crisp has reverted to his pesky former-self (he leads baseball with 4 triples). Alberto Callaspo, currently hitting a robust .378, follows in the two-hole and, if Jose Guillen, Alex Gordon and Billy Butler can at least hit their weight, Kansas City should challenge Detroit atop the under-appreciated AL Central.

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Those with questions should refer back to the middleweight bout between Coco Crisp and the entire Rays team in late spring. Simply put - these teams don't like each other much.

But back to the Angels series. Those last two games were classic playoff showdowns. Last night the Sox squeezed out a memorably improbable victory in the most unlikely circumstances. When Jed Lowrie came to the plate, I turned to my wife and told her I had zero faith in his ability to come through. The words had barely spilled from my mouth when he turned around a Scot Shields pitch to end the series. Jed Lowrie 1, Me 0. And I couldn't be happier.

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evin Youkilis 3B

5) Jason Bay LF

6) Mike Lowell 3B

7) Jed Lowrie SS

8) Jason Varitek C

9) Coco Crisp CF

Game 3...Keep the Faith. 

Post game notes:

-Coco Crisp: 

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A small snapshot it is, but Coco Crisp has had an amazing week for the Boston Red Sox.  Since September 8th, he has 17 at bats with 12 hits, a .706 batting average!  During that time he also has 3 walks and has stuck out all of once.  For someone who was absolutely going to be traded before Spring Training ended, and then no doubt about it by the trading deadline, Crisp has become Mr. Clutch during some must win games.

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Early 2nd inning RBIs from Alex Cora and Coco Crisp gave the Sox an early 2-0 lead. A David Ortiz two run shot, his 18th, in the 5th pushed it to a 4-0 advantage. 6th inning RBIs from Jacoby Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia, as well as a 7th inning solo shot from Jason Bay, his 27th, made it a 7-0 lead.

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base once again in place of Lowell, while utility man Alex Cora played in place of Lowrie at short. Coco Crisp filled in for Drew in the outfield. However, injuries are excuses, and their injuries are not an excuse for the fact that after 6 innings of play, the Red Sox were losing 4-0.

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first base and home umpire, Pedroia getting tossed and the Orioles fan jabbing back and forth with Coco Crisp before battles with two ushers and a pair of Red Sox fans on the way out of the stadium.

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quot;  Bay has already made comments that he could never replace Manny, but don't tell that to Coco Crisp, who was slotted in to be Johnny Damon's replacement in centerfield.  I feel for this guy, who is certainly an above (maybe way above?) average hitter and could do very well playing for a team his father has always cherished.

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We all saw Coco Crisp soar through the air and crash into the centerfield wall in Anaheim the other day. We were all in awe of the catch he made - the latest in a long line of remarkable highlights - and we all shouted out loud in our living room even though nobody but family members and perhaps a dog or two were present. (It's OK to admit it. You know you did it).

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On a final note, I truly love these players (the Lugos and Crisps of the world). These guys here are what link the Sox of the past (the Sox I grew up watching) to the new, confrangled, win-every-ye

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up his bones and cart him out there just to see what a shortstop with a set of hands looks like?

Coco Crisp

Holy Moley. What the hell is this guy doing? Coco looks like he’s trying to swat butterflies with a handkerchief. In the 9th inning against the Yankees the other night (when the Sox brought up their murderers-row of Coco, Varitek, and Lugo to face Yankees closer Mariano Rivera), Coco looked unbearably clueless, flailing (and missing) at three pitches outside the strikezone. Crisp's .261 BA, 5 HR, and less-than-healthy .310 OBP are all less-than-stellar. But its his arm (the arm that makes Johnny Damon’s look like a howitzer by comparison) that puts Coco in a class by himself. If there were a stat for runners-that-would-have-been-thrown-out-had-not-the-centerfielder-possessed-the-arm-of-a-pre-pubescent-girl, Coco would be the run-away league-leader. Seriously, we are talking about a probable 20-30 run differential.

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So Coco Crisp came up to bat and for some weird reason on an 0-2 count he waved at a ball that was so far outside the strike zone, he missed and was called out on strikes.  At that p

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res were part of the game and story yesterday.  Third base umpire Wally Bell called a catch by Coco Crisp a "trap" in the 9th inning.  Everyone except Bell seemed to know that Crisp had caught that ball, and again the human factor of the umpiring plays a factor in the game.  While it didn't change the outcome (don't sit there and tell me you didn't hold your breath as the final out headed toward center field), it again brings to the spotlight umpiring and the human factor. 

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/31 & is pitching in AAA  Pawtucket.

Good news is that Manny Ramirez, Kevin Youkilis and Coco Crisp should all be available for tonight's start.

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e offensive show with a towering homerun that cleared the Green Monster; JD Drew went 3 for 5 & Coco Crisp 2 for 5 as Wakefield's knuckleball danced in the hot, humid air. After Friday

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After watching both of Coco Crisp's steals in the 6th and 8th innings of last night's Red Sox/Rays game, I still think Coco was in the wrong.
But before I get to Coco's steal in the 8th, let's look at the steal that started the whole fight. There were 2 outs in the bottom of the 6th. Ellsbury was at the plate. And on a pitch-out, Coco stole 2nd base. Unfortunately Rays short stop Jason Bartlett blocked the bag with his knee. So while Coco was safe, he injured his left thumb on the slide when his hand made contact with Bartlett's knee. (It's now bandaged and we'll have to wait and see how bad the injury is.)

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JD Drew was the offensive star of last night's win, going 2 for 3 along with Coco Crisp's off the wall tie breaking double.  Dice-K's replacement Justin Masterson allowed four runs on six hits in six innings-- he's 2-0 with a The Rays are 0-4 at Fenway Park this season; 65-88 since their inaugural season 10 years ago. They'll return for a final 3 game series in September following tomorrow nights game.

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In the meantime, we’ll probably see increased playing time for Coco Crisp and Sean Casey depending on who Terry Francona decides to DH and what defensive alignments he chooses to go with, and there is always the possibility of bringing up Jed Lowrie or Brandon Moss from Pawtucket. These are all just temporary stop gaps and the Red Sox would likely have to look outside the organization if they want to pick up a big bat. Names that have often been mentioned to be available include Ken Griffey, Jr. or Adam Dunn in Cincinnati and there is talk the Rockies could potentially look to move Matt Holliday. Certainly others could become available as teams fall out of contention. And of course there is one Barry Bonds who sits waiting for a phone call from an interested party. Bonds, however, comes with his own set of problems and would seem to be the complete antithesis of David Ortiz, which brings me to my final point.

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players would have attempted to score.

Ellsbury is not the only threat to steal a base, however. Coco Crisp is perfect in all 6 of his steal attempts this year, including one last night where he moved into scoring position with two outs in the ninth inning, giving Manny Ramirez the opportunity to tie the game up with a mere single. Julio Lugo also has 5 steals and even the self-proclaimed lead footed Dustin Pedroia has contributed 4 steals. In total, 7 different Boston players have successfully swiped a base so far this season.

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coming back.

Kevin Youkilis is up to batting .375, JD Drew is off to a hot start batting .316 and Coco Crisp is putting up an awfully good fight to hold on to the centerfield job and now Boston seems content to hold onto him until it gets blown away by a trade offer. Manny Ramirez, who has started slowly the last couple of seasons, is also on fire and leading the team in RBI’s and coming through with a big hit almost every time the Red Sox need one, none bigger than his ninth inning home run last night in Cleveland to put the Red Sox ahead 6-4. Dustin Pedroia is also beginning to sting the ball around the field with more authority and sooner or later Mike Lowell will come off the disabled list and David Ortiz will snap out of his funk and the offense will be back to hitting on all cylinders.

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           If you’re a baseball fan (any team), you know better than to get excited about the results of any single series of games. If you’ve been a Boston Red Sox fan for longer than (say) 10 years, you know better than to get excited about almost anything until (say) mid-September (and even then. . ).

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er bears its own set of characters; the dancing Papelbon, Manny being Manny, and the strange stance Coco Crisp. Maybe it's something in the water.

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k he's the one to roam Fenway's center stage in 2008. But was it enough to turn Coco Crisp into Coco Crust?  I'm not sure about that yet.  Jacoby's a speedster with pretty good defensive skills, a so so arm, and an exciting bat, but did we see enough to anoint him to your everyday center fielder?

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im out and go with some one like Julian Tavarez or Kyle Snyder as the fifth starter for now?

Will Coco Crisp Still be in a Red Sox Uniform When the Season Starts?

With the emergence of Jacoby Ellsbury and the re-signing of outfielder Bobby Kielty as a right handed bat off the bench,

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ove comes as a bit of a surprise considering the Red Sox already have a surplus of outfielders with Coco Crisp currently holding the role of fourth outfielder.

The Red Sox bench now includes first baseman Sean Casey, backup catcher Doug Mirabelli, switch hitting outfielder

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It remains to be seen if Coco Crisp will be with the team come opening day, though with spring training rapidly approaching that possibility is becoming more of a reality. In a perfect situation I'd hope for a trade for a relief pitcher of decent quality, but the Red Sox attention has been focused on Santana for so long that any other possibilities would have to come out of almost nowhere in the next few weeks.

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Sean Casey, who helped the Tigers win their title in '06, is now a member of the Boston Red Sox, so I went fishing for a performance 'snapshot' of him to see what we were getting for our $800,000.

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;ll be an even more striking struggle out at center field as management works at a decision between Coco Crisp and the new kid on the block, Jacoby Ellsbury.

There are pros and cons on each side of the equation. On the surface, Crisp has the experience; 6 major league seasons, four with the Indians and the last two, with the Sox. On the Ellsbury side, you have a rookie who batted .353 playing in about 20% of last year's games. Then, too, he did bat .438 in the World Series (.360 overall in the post-season).

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  With less than a month to go before the Boston Red Sox open up their spring training schedule with two, split-squad exhibition games at Boston College and Northeastern (Feb. 28th), it's time, perhaps to take a quick gander at what's on the near horizon.

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