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Mitch's Sports Report: Orioles Remain Unbeaten At Red Sox Expense. Time To Panic In Boston?

Break up the Orioles. Already off to their best start in franchise history, the O's added to that mark with another win against the Boston Red Sox last night and are still the only undefeated team in the majors this season, winners of seven in a row.

Baltimore's bats were booming again at the Fens last night. J.J. Hardy homered twice, the first a Pesky Pole special, wrapping around the pole and bouncing off the top of the low wall in right field, the shortest homer you can hit in the majors. Mark Trumbo also went yard for the O's in their 9-5 win. And what do we make of the Red Sox? Now at 3-4, is it time to press the panic button, especially after another tepid start by Clay Buchholz, who went five innings, giving up five runs for the second game in a row? Well, even a doom and gloom fan like me will say seven games is too small a sample size for any definitive declarations, but we all know that after two consecutive last place finishes the Sox will be on a much shorter leash this season when it comes to fan patience. The Sox also need to be much better at home this year and so far they are winless at Fenway Park, although again, it's a small sample size. One positive note is the continuing hot start by David Ortiz, who smacked a two-run homer in the first inning last night, his third of the year already, although it went for naught in the end. In any event, the Orioles go for the sweep and a perfect 8-0 start with only Joe Kelly standing in their way. Kelly is making his second start of the season for Boston after getting clubbed around against the Blue Jays.

The NY Yankees were winners in Toronto last night, getting the go-ahead and eventual winning run on a hit by Jacob Ellsbury in a 3-2 victory north of the border. Brian McCann homered for the Yanks but later had to leave the game after fouling a pitch off his foot. He's likely to miss a game or two and manager Joe Girardi said he won't be in the line up for game 2 tonight. The Yanks got big contributions from the bullpen with Dellin Betances striking out Joe Bautista to end the seventh inning with the tying run at second. Masahiro Tanaka got the start but did not factor in the decision, giving up two runs on three hits over five innings. Andrew Miller picked up the save as the Yanks move to 4-2 and the Jays' struggles continue, now losers of five of their last six games.

While the Red Sox start to the season has been less than inspiring, the NY Mets' has been even worse. The defending National League champs have now lost four in a row and are just 2-5 to start the season after losing 2-1 to the Miami Marlins last night. Pitching was not the issue for the Mets, who got a twelve-strikeout performance from Noah Syndergaard but the Marlins had their ace Jose Fernandez on the mound, and while he only lasted five innings, he gave up just the one run and the Mets couldn't do anything against Miami's bullpen. The winning rally for Miami came in the eighth started by a remarkable at-bat by Dee Gordon, who singled on pitch number sixteen that he saw in the at-bat, the longest major league at-bat in nearly two years.

In college baseball the St. Michael's Purple Knights got off the schneide. With fourteen straight losses to start the season they got a big win yesterday, topping Middlebury 6-0 at Forbes Field. Trevor Allen was spectacular for the Purple Knights, throwing a complete game  shut-out, scattering seven hits over his nine innings while striking out six. Middlebury drops to 6-11 on the season in the non-conference loss.

The NHL playoffs begin tonight with three  games on tap. The Tampa Bay Lightning host the Detroit Red Wings, who are making their twenty-fifth consecutive playoff appearance thanks in large part to the season-ending collapse by the Boston Bruins. The Pittsburgh Penguins, who turned their season around after the hiring of former Bruins head coach Mike Sullivan host the New York Rangers, and in what should be a good one, the St. Louis Blues host the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks. The Blues continue to be one of those teams that achieve consistent regular season success but falter in the playoffs. There is, of course, no Canadian franchise in the playoffs this year, but nearly fifty percent of all NHL players do hail from north of the border, and if you want to root for the team with the largest roster of native Canadian players, you should hitch your wagon to the Florida Panthers.
 

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.
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