Grammar police, please arrest David Ross

By Bill BaerJul 28, 2013, 6:35 PM EDT
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As mentioned here, Red Sox teammates Ryan Dempster and Jonny Gomes playfully “repaired” the dugout phone David Ortiz demolished in a fit of rage in last night’s loss to the Orioles. The two hooked up aluminum cans on a piece of string, the way they used to do in the olden days.

The @MLB Twitter posted a picture of catcher David Ross attempting to use the contraption, capturing a pithy slogan for the Red Sox who had, until Friday night’s loss, been in first place since the end of May. Unfortunately, the shirt had an unfortunate grammatical error:

 

Yankees promote Justus Sheffield

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By Craig CalcaterraSep 18, 2018, 10:21 AM EDT
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The Red Sox-Yankees game scheduled for this afternoon has been moved to this evening because of weather, but there are still happenings in the Bronx: the Yankees have called up top pitching prospect Justus Sheffield.

Sheffield, 22, is the Yankees’ highest-ranked prospect, per MLB Pipeline. The lefty was acquired in the Andrew Miller deal back in 2016. In 2018 he made the jump from Double-A Trenton to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre with a cumulative 7-6 record in 20 starts and a 2.87 ERA, 3.9 BB/9 and 9.5 SO/9 through 116 innings.

The Yankees reportedly plan is to keep Sheffield in the bullpen for the time being, with his late season shift to a relief role at Scranton designed to get him used to helping out for the Yankees stretch run and, possibly, a playoff run. He’ll likely have a shot at the Yankees’ rotation next spring.