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Boston Red Sox: J.D. Martinez is grand marshal of hit parade
Offense be thy title is the creed for the Boston Purple Sox in current weeks. Whereas the beginning pitchers have been respectable — together with Nick Pivetta tossing a whole recreation — it’s the sudden inflow of offense pacing this staff. (And we’ll attempt to push apart a bullpen that allowed ten runs in three innings Friday night time, blowing an 8-2 lead).
Eight wins of their final 11 video games, the Purple Sox have scored 76 runs within the victories. Twice they posted 16 runs in a sequence victory over the Chicago White Sox. Heading into the sequence with the Baltimore Orioles, Boston has received 4 straight sequence’.
A variety of the main focus on this current streak has been rightfully on Trevor Story, with Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts strong from the beginning. It’s J.D. Martinez who’s quietly placing collectively among the finest begins in current reminiscence.
Martinez regular as ever for Boston Purple Sox
A five-game dropping streak dropped the Purple Sox to 10-19 on Might 8. Hints of panic had been already swirling for Purple Sox Nation, with hopes they might nonetheless flip their season round.
Since, Boston has gone 11-5. By way of all of it, regardless of battling some illnesses in April and lacking a while, Martinez has been regular in 2022.
A considerably mediocre begin was rapidly rotated, as Martinez is just blistering the ball in Might. He’s hitting .440 in 22 video games this month, going with no hit in just one recreation to date. Fifteen of those video games have been of the multi-hit selection.
Martinez has scored 22 runs in Might, with 4 house runs and 14 RBI.
Contemporary off a sequence in opposition to the Chicago White Sox wherein he went 9-13, Martinez had a 1-3 night time on Friday. This dropped his batting common from .380 all the best way all the way down to .379. He did add a double, his seventeenth, and had entered Friday night time with a 1.029 OPS.
Martinez additionally posted an 18-game hitting streak this season.
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The ability numbers haven’t crept in simply but for Martinez. Others behind him the lineup, nonetheless, have taken up the mantle for manufacturing these days. If Martinez retains getting on base and gamers like Franchy Cordero, Jackie Bradley Jr., and Story retaining transferring him across the bases, the Purple Sox shall be in a great spot.
Boston Purple Sox: A real Story
Boston’s latest second baseman has after all been the speak of the city the final couple of weeks.
Story was hitting .196 on the finish of the day on Might 15. He’d proven transient indicators of life previous to at the present time however had but to place collectively something constant.
Take into account that subject solved.
Since Might 15, Story is batting .310. He has eight house runs and 22 RBI through the span. This features a monster recreation on Might 19 in opposition to the Seattle Mariners the place he had three house runs and drove in seven.
All the month of Might has been a spectacular one for Story. Regardless of an 0-3 night time on Friday, Story has 9 house runs, 32 RBI, and scored 18 runs to date.
The Purple Sox seem to on the verge of absolutely righting this ship. This lineup can go toe-to-toe with the most effective within the league. Martinez is in a primary place proper now, not solely with alternatives to drive in runs however getting across the bases himself.
Doing each shall be wanted going ahead, particularly the place it seems the Purple Sox might want to win 10-9 or 11-10 video games. It didn’t occur on Friday however at the very least the Purple Sox offense is trending in the best path to be on the higher facet of these scores sooner or later.
No two trials are the same — and it appears that’ll be true for the high-profile Karen Read case as well.
Prosecutors have been working to keep several defense witnesses off the stand in the upcoming retrial over the killing of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.
“It’s not surprising to me to at all that, with new lawyers on the case and fresh looks at the evidence, that they’re making a determination as to which pieces of evidence they think they have real chance of excluding,” NBC10 Boston legal analyst Michael Coyne said.
The witnesses whom the prosecution moved to exclude from the case are a doctor whose expertise includes dog bites, a forensic expert who challenged the now infamous Google search, “hos long to die in the snow,” as well as two accident reconstruction experts whose testimony under cut the state’s version of how O’Keefe died.
Prosecutors in the Karen Read trial spent the day in court trying to discredit the expertise of the defense’s dog bite expert, Dr. Marie Russell, so she can’t testify in the retrial.
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Judge Beverly Cannone will decide if the witnesses testify. She allowed them at the first trial and Coyne said it could create problems if she says no for the next trial.
“It does put her in a difficult point to be able to now reverse herself, and I don’t think that’s likely to happen,” he said.
Special Assistant District Attorney Hank Brennan is now leading the state’s case, and he plans to cut down the number of witnesses while bringing a different style than the original lead prosecutor, Adam Lally.
“Hank’s approach is like an everyman’s approach,” said Coyne, who knows the experienced defense lawyer. “He’s understated. He’s very quick on his feet. I think he’ll be well received by the jury.”
Read’s team remains intact, but she said Tuesday outside one of the witness hearings that they’re taking a second look, too.
“We’re going to re-tool everything. Maybe something will stay similar but we’re gonna shuffle a lot of things around,” she said.
Much of this preparation could be moot if the state’s Supreme Judicial Court decides to throw out two of the charges against Read.
The Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office says one of Karen Read’s key arguments has been “debunked” in a legal filing seeking to prevent testimony from a defense witness in the upcoming retrial.
BOSTON – It’s a peculiar sight in downtown Boston: Giant pink people peering into restaurant windows and hanging out in alleyways.
These sculptures that are making their debut in the United States are called “Monsieur Rose” or “Mr. Pink” in English. It’s a new art installation designed to catch your attention and lift your spirits.
“These characters transform the streets into playful places and our daily travels into delightful, colorful journeys,” a website for the exhibit says.
“Cute-ism” art
Their collective name in French roughly translates to “cute-ism” from artist Philippe Katerine. The inflatable sculptures are part of this year’s Winteractive art walk.
Winteractive is the same event that brought floating clown heads to the city last year. The Downtown Boston Alliance says the reaction encouraged them to up the ante this year.
Changing people’s days
Michael Nichols with the Downtown Boston Alliance says the organization is exploring “different ways of using our downtown to have fun.”
“It is the darkest, drabbest time of year in Boston. It’s gray … just cold and bitter,” he said. “And pops of pink color, bubblegum pink dotting the downtown in now six different locations is changing people’s day.”
Mr. Pink is only the beginning of the experience – new installations will be added to the collection every day for the next week. On Thursday morning there was another eye-catching sight: A display that appeared to show a satellite or small spacecraft that had crashed onto the hood of a car.
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