Can't Quit Stroking

(AP)

Bats Still Smoking
Beltre, Scutaro, Drew Come Up Big in Baltimore
Sox Hanging Tough Until the Bitter End

Boston 9, Baltimore 6 | Lester Turns It Around
Scutaro's No Goat, Two-Run Jack Off Hendrickson Ties It Up
Beltre Bomb No. 24 Seals the Deal for the Never-Say-Die Sox
Lester Comes Undone Early, Bounces Back for Four Solid
Lugo Won't Bite Hand That Fed Him, Big K with Bases Full
And It All Started with a J.D. Drew Homer
Everybody Hit, Kalish, Too
16,210 Strong Showed Up

"We never quit. We played the first inning right through to the ninth inning because you never know what can happen. We do have a lot of pride on this team. We don’t care what people think about us. We’re gonna keep playing hard." -- Victor Martinez on the diehard Red Sox

Flying South

(Jim Davis / Boston Globe Staff)

Sox Caught Looking Like They Just Want This Thing to End

Baltimore 5, Boston 2 | Sox Scuffle Along
Good to See Marco Lugaro Back Playing Shortstop for the Walking Wounded
What More Is There to Say About the Busted Season of Josh Beckett?
Tonight's Exposed Fill-in Not Ready for Full-Time: Felix Doubront
Vets Not Stepping Up: 3 Ks for Ortiz; J.D. .253
Wonder If Pap Thinks Koji Uehara Is the Next Mariano Rivera?
Offseason Thinking: Can We Trade Matsuzaka for Matusz and Pocket the Millions?
And There Goes Road Sox Nation: Only 18,247 at So-Called Fenway South
... About the Same Number You'll See at Fenway in September
Manny DelTimlin, What a Long Strange Trip It's Been. Sincerely, Dan Duquette

"We've got to win games. We don't have any other choice." -- Jed Lowrie... because Josh Beckett and David Ortiz weren't talking at the funeral home at Camden Yards

Also New on NESN

Theo Epstein and the Holy Grail
... Starring the 2010 Boston Red Sox as
the Black Knight Guarding the 'Bridge'

Also, On a Very Special 'After the Game', You'll Get to See How Nickel and Dime Starters John Lackey and Josh Beckett Spend Their Excess Millions
Gerry Callahan: Lackey, Beckett Co-star in Red Sox Flop
Dan Shaughnessy: It's Official, Sox Are a Done Deal
Holy Uri Berenguer Highlights, the Hits Keep on Coming for Sox Fans:
NESN's New Gameplan

"Look you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left! Yes I have. Look! It's just a flesh wound." -- King Arthur and Black Knight, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1974

(BDD / James MacLeod Cartoons)

Can You Hear Her Now?

(BDD / Frank Galasso Illustration)

As We Head Into September, The Song Remains the Same

It's All Unofficially Over as Sox Drop Two of Three in the Trop
Sunday: Tampa Bay 5, Boston 3 | Rays Send Sox Packing
John Lackluster Pitched from the Josh Beckett Script Perfectly
Did You Know? John Lackey Is French for Jeff Suppan
Sox Close Out the Season Quietly in Last Three Innings
Even Shields Owns This Lineup Now
Saturday: Tampa Bay 3, Boston 2 | Sox Drop the Ball
Streak Over, Clay Buchholz Is His Own Worst Enemy
Victor Steps Up Again, But It's a Killer Setback for Sox
Red Sox for $500 Alex... 'Who Ended the 2010 Red Sox Season?'... Dan Johnson
Thanks for Over-managing Tito. Sincerely, Daniel Bard's Fresh Young Arm
Add J.D. Drew's Brain to the Disabled List
Friday: Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1 | Lester Outpitches Price
V-Mart Blue Light Special

"We've got a lot more games than that. I'm not a math whiz, but I think it's doable." -- John Lackey needs a new calendar

Now Available On iTunes

(BDD Photo Illustration)

Season Over, But Record Will Keep Playing

Split the Bit

(Jim Davis / Boston Globe Staff)

Sox Don't Have the Horses to Take Two

Seattle 4, Boston 2 | Boston 5, Seattle 3 | Sox Shine in Day, Fall at NIght
Fill In Wake Falls to 3-10, Rookie Ump Takes Bat Out of Sox Hands
Don't Choke on That Beckett Burger, But Josh Got Win No. 4
More Bad News: Felix Closing on on Clay for Cy Consideration
In Game One, the Sox Nava Quit

"I didn’t do nothing. Why are rookies behind home plate when we’re trying to freaking win a pennant race here? We have to play against the players and against the umpires now. It’s 25 against 26... We have to start gaining some ground because this is getting kind of late.’’-- Adran Beltre tosses out the truth of the matter