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The Red Sox Kept Winning at Home
2008-06-04 04:47:00
 Coco Crisp hit a tie breaking double and Boston won the matchup of the AL Easts top two teams with a 7-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night. Crisp snapped a 1-for-25 slump with the two-run double in a four-run sixth inning and Jacoby Ellsbury followed with a sacrifice fly with Ortiz ...
Ortiz-less BoSox doubled up by O?s
2008-06-03 05:22:00
It was a lost night for the Boston Red Sox. First, the Red Sox lost an eighth-inning lead to the Baltimore Orioles. Then they lost the game, 6-3. Then Boston learned it lost designated hitter David Ortiz, who will be placed on the 15-day disabled list with a partially torn tendon in his left wrist. Ortiz leads ...
Ortiz heads to disabled list with tendon tear
2008-06-03 04:42:00
Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz will be placed on the 15-day disabled list with a partially torn tendon in his left wrist, manager Terry Francona said Monday night. Ortiz hurt his wrist while swinging at a pitch Saturday night in a game against the Baltimore Orioles. He missed Sunday’s game, then left the team ...
Ortiz gets MRI on ailing wrist
2008-06-03 02:00:00
Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz missed a second straight game Monday after undergoing an MRI on his ailing left wrist. Ortiz sprained his wrist while swinging at a pitch Saturday night in a game against the Baltimore Orioles. He missed Sunday’s game, then left the team for Boston, where he underwent an MRI on ...
Milestone HRs have lost luster thanks to Steroid Era
2008-06-02 17:39:00
Manny just hit his 500th homer. Griffey will pop No. 600 any day. But Michael Rosenberg says these feats have sadly lost their meaning. Read the full story.
Firing the manager appears to be a token gesture
2008-06-01 21:35:00
You can’t fire the entire team, so managers often take the fall when a ball club struggles. Mike Vaccaro examines if it actually works. Read the full story.
Ortiz out with wrist injury, Ramirez plays DH
2008-06-01 19:11:00
David Ortiz sat in front of his locker, his ailing left wrist heavily bandaged. Ortiz wasn’t in the starting lineup for the Boston Red Sox on Sunday, and the designated hitter could only hope his injury was a minor setback. Ortiz sprained his left wrist Saturday night while swinging at a pitch in Boston’s 6-3 win ...
Ortiz leaves game with left wrist sprain
2008-06-01 05:36:00
Designated hitter David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox left Saturday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles in the ninth inning after sustaining a left wrist sprain while fouling off a pitch. X-rays were negative and Ortiz is listed as day to day, though Ortiz said after Boston’s 6-3 victory that he doubted he would play Sunday. “I ...
Red Sox game to start one hour earlier Thursday
2008-06-01 05:29:00
The Red Sox will start Thursday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays one hour earlier to enable Boston Celtics fans to watch Game 1 of the NBA finals against the Los Angeles Lakers. Red Sox President and Chief Executive Officer Larry Lucchino announced the decision Saturday, saying he will also be rooting for the Celtics as ...
Ortiz leaves game with left hand injury
2008-06-01 04:36:00
Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz left Saturday night’s game against the Baltimore Orioles in the ninth inning after injuring his left hand. Ortiz, who was 2-for-3 with his 13th home run, a sacrifice fly and two RBIs, apparently sustained the injury while fouling off a 3-1 Dennis Sarfate pitch. Following the foul, Ortiz stepped out of ...
Ramirez joins 500 homer club with milestone drive
2008-06-01 03:47:00
Manny Ramirez connected for career homer No. 500 on Saturday night, hitting a drive off Baltimore Orioles right-hander Chad Bradford to become the 24th major leaguer to reach the milestone. Ramirez drove the first pitch into the seats in right-center in the seventh inning. The Red Sox star watched the flight of the ball, then took ...
Red Sox activate Buchholz, send him to Triple-A
2008-06-01 01:16:00
The Boston Red Sox activated right-hander Clay Buchholz from the 15-day disabled list on Saturday and optioned him to Triple-A Pawtucket, where he had been on a rehabilitation assignment. Buchholz was placed on the disabled list May 14 with a torn nail on his right middle finger. He was 2-3 with a 5.53 ERA in eight ...
Dice-K begins shoulder strengthening program
2008-05-31 23:50:00
Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka will begin a program to strengthen his sore right shoulder and hopes to be activated from the 15-day disabled list on June 12, the first day he is eligible to return. “Just to have the exams done and to know for sure that everything’s fine is really good,” Matsuzaka said through ...
Red Sox activate Buchholz, sent to Triple-A
2008-05-31 23:43:00
The Boston Red Sox activated right-hander Clay Buchholz from the 15-day disabled list on Saturday and optioned him to Triple-A Pawtucket, where he had been on a rehabilitation assignment. Buchholz was placed on the disabled list May 14 with a torn nail on his right middle finger. He was 2-3 with a 5.53 ERA in eight ...
Red Sox 5, Orioles 2(13)
2008-05-31 06:54:00
Boston put up one zero after another, its offense stuck in neutral as the game passed the 4 1/2-hour mark. Then the Red Sox got the perfect jump-start for their anemic bats: three errors by the Baltimore Orioles in the pivotal 13th inning. Boston scored three unearned runs on just two hits in the lucky 13th ...
Lowell, Red Sox outlast Orioles in 13
2008-05-31 06:36:00
Mike Lowell singled in the tiebreaking run during a 13th inning in which the Baltimore Orioles made three errors, and the Boston Red Sox turned the miscues into a 5-2 victory Friday night. Lowell had three hits, and Jacoby Ellsbury had three hits and half of Boston’s club-record six stolen bases. Manny Ramirez, bidding for his ...
Bedard finally finds groove against Sox
2008-05-29 07:45:00
Finally, two months into a dreadful season, the Mariners’ ace showed up. Erik Bedard looked like the man for whom Seattle traded five players to Baltimore in February by allowing just two hits in seven innings, and Yuniesky Betancourt’s home run was all the Mariners needed to beat the Boston Red Sox 1-0 on Wednesday night. Reliever ...
Mariners 1, Red Sox 0
2008-05-29 07:42:00
Fastballs that flew past Boston’s flailing bats. Curves sharp enough to break the will of the Red Sox. Then, diving cut fastballs and tricky changeups. So this is why Seattle traded five players to Baltimore for Erik Bedard. Two months into a dreadful Mariners season, Bedard finally became the ace Seattle bargained hard for all winter by ...
Bedard finally finds groove against BoSox
2008-05-29 06:35:00
Finally, two months into a dreadful season, the Mariners’ ace showed up. Erik Bedard looked like the man for whom Seattle traded five players to Baltimore in February by allowing just two hits in seven innings, and Yuniesky Betancourt’s home run was all the Mariners needed to beat the Boston Red Sox 1-0 on Wednesday night. Reliever ...
Matsuzaka getting precautionary MRI on shoulder
2008-05-29 04:45:00
Daisuke Matsuzaka was to return to Boston for more tests on his fatigued pitching shoulder, leaving at least his next start in jeopardy. The 11th Red Sox pitcher to win his first eight decisions in a season left his start in Seattle on Tuesday after four innings. He threw two seemingly routine warmup pitches before the ...
Matsuzaka getting MRI on shoulder
2008-05-29 04:43:00
Daisuke Matsuzaka was to return to Boston for more tests on his fatigued pitching shoulder, leaving at least his next start in jeopardy. The 11th Red Sox pitcher to win his first eight decisions in a season left his start in Seattle on Tuesday after four innings. He threw two seemingly routine warmup pitches before the ...
Charity offers dinner with Matsuzaka
2008-05-29 02:53:00
Dinner with Dice-K can be yours - sushi included - if you’re willing to write a big check to his chosen charity. Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is auctioning off a sushi dinner for five - including him and his wife, Tomoyo - to benefit a children’s charity, Good Sports. The opening bid for the eBay ...
Mariners 4, Red Sox 3
2008-05-28 07:27:00
Jose Lopez lined a single past diving third baseman Mike Lowell to score Wladimir Balentien with the game-winning run and the Seattle Mariners beat the Boston Red Sox 4-3 on Tuesday night to end a season-high seven-game losing streak. The Mariners overcame Manny Ramirez’s 499th career home run. The ninth inning began with a one-hopper by Balentien ...
M?s edge Sox to snap seven-game skid
2008-05-28 07:22:00
Jose Lopez lined a single past diving third baseman Mike Lowell to score Wladimir Balentien with the game-winning run and the Seattle Mariners beat the Boston Red Sox 4-3 on Tuesday night to end a season-high seven-game losing streak. Mike Timlin (2-3), a former Mariner, is now 0-6 in 15 appearances at Safeco Field. The inning began ...
Red Sox?s Lugo, Francona ejected
2008-05-28 06:19:00
Boston shortstop Julio Lugo and manager Terry Francona were ejected in the fifth inning of Tuesday night’s game against Seattle. With Boston trailing 3-0, third-base umpire Angel Hernandez ruled a check swing by Seattle’s Raul Ibanez in the bottom of the fifth inning to be no swing against David Aardsma. Read the full story.
Matsuzaka leaves start with injury
2008-05-28 06:06:00
Boston’s Daisuke Matsuzaka left his start against Seattle on Tuesday night before the bottom of the fifth inning with an apparent injury to his lower back. The 11th Red Sox pitcher to win his first eight decisions in a season allowed three runs - two earned - on four hits in four innings. Then, after two ...
5 Red Sox stars lead early All-Star voting
2008-05-28 04:01:00
Major League Baseball released early results of fan voting for July’s All-Star game on Tuesday. They showed the showcase event at Yankee Stadium for the storied park’s final summer could look a lot like a Red Sox game. Boston players were leading the voting at five of the nine positions: Kevin Youkilis, Dustin Pedroia, Jason Varitek, ...
Red Sox pull away late from Mariners
2008-05-27 07:46:00
The Boston Red Sox found an easy cure for their road woes - a visit to the worst team in baseball. Bartolo Colon showed flashes of his Cy Young days, shutting down Seattle for seven innings, and Dustin Pedroia’s RBI ground-rule double scored the go-ahead run as the Red Sox scored four times in the eighth ...
Red Sox 5, Mariners 3
2008-05-27 06:43:00
The Boston Red Sox found an easy cure for their road woes - a visit to the worst team in baseball. Bartolo Colon showed flashes of his Cy Young days, shutting down Seattle for seven innings, and Dustin Pedroia’s RBI ground-rule double scored the go-ahead run as the Red Sox scored four times in the eighth ...
Boston?s Lester has a different kind of return home
2008-05-27 03:13:00
In the span of a week, the homecoming of Boston pitcher Jon Lester went from being a footnote to the centerpiece everyone wanted to talk about. “It’s been crazy,” the 24-year-old native of Tacoma, Wash., said. Lester walked in the front door of his parents’ home, about 35 miles south of Seattle, on Sunday night the proud ...
A?s spoil Lester?s encore attempt
2008-05-26 04:44:00
Jon Lester has been through enough emotional extremes for a lifetime over the last two years. After surviving lymphoma and winning a World Series, after throwing a no-hitter and hearing his father’s own diagnosis with cancer, the Boston left-hander seems to wish he could just get back to the mundane, everyday business of pitching - even ...
Clay Buchholz goes 4-plus innings in rehab start
2008-05-26 03:36:00
Clay Buchholz pitched four-plus innings Sunday night in a rehab start for Triple-A Pawtucket. On the disabled list because of a torn nail on his middle finger, Buchholz allowed one run and three hits with three strikeouts and two walks. He threw 38 of his 63 pitches for strikes and topped out at 96 mph on ...
Athletics 6, Red Sox 3
2008-05-26 00:53:00
Jon Lester’s hopes for another no-hitter ended with the first batter he faced, and the day never got better for the Boston Red Sox at the close of a lost weekend in Oakland. Jack Hannahan hit that leadoff single and later drove in two runs, and Jack Cust hit a two-run homer as the Athletics completed ...
Lester allows leadoff hit in first start after no-hitter
2008-05-25 22:22:00
Jon Lester has allowed a leadoff single by Oakland’s Jack Hannahan in his first start after throwing a no-hitter. Lester, a cancer survivor who won the clinching game of last season’s World Series, threw the 18th no-hitter in Red Sox history against the Kansas City Royals on Monday night at Fenway Park. But after David Ortiz hit ...
Duchscherer loses no-hitter in 7th, but A?s win
2008-05-25 06:30:00
Justin Duchscherer carried a no-hit bid into the seventh inning, Ryan Sweeney homered and the Oakland Athletics beat the Boston Red Sox 3-0 on Saturday night for their first series win in their past five. Duchscherer (4-3) outdueled Josh Beckett and had a perfect game going into the sixth before he plunked Jason Varitek to start ...
Athletics 3, Red Sox 0
2008-05-25 05:29:00
Justin Duchscherer carried a no-hit bid into the seventh inning, Ryan Sweeney homered and the Oakland Athletics beat the Boston Red Sox 3-0 on Saturday night for their first series win in their past five. Duchscherer (4-3) outdueled Josh Beckett and had a perfect game going into the sixth before he plunked Jason Varitek to start ...
Red Sox discuss pace of game rules
2008-05-25 02:32:00
Red Sox manager Terry Francona called his team together Saturday to discuss the latest emphasis by baseball to enforce speed up rules considering games have been running long this year. This weekend, umpires have begun the process - and the Red Sox dealt with the issue firsthand in their 8-3 loss to the Oakland Athletics on ...
Lester ready to get back to normal
2008-05-25 02:02:00
Jon Lester is seriously craving some normalcy, and he can see it on the horizon. At least, he hopes so. Lester had a hard time figuring out what all the fuss was about Saturday when everybody wanted a piece of his time, one day before he was to make his next start - six days after ...
Big Hurt powers A?s past Red Sox
2008-05-24 07:53:00
After two long rounds in the cage last week in Atlanta, Frank Thomas told his manager he was starting to feel it at the plate. The Big Hurt did the same thing in his first stint with Oakland two years ago and began hitting home runs regularly. Thomas hit a two-run homer to stake Rich Harden ...
Athletics 8, Red Sox 3
2008-05-24 06:42:00
Frank Thomas hit a two-run homer to stake Rich Harden to an early lead and Mark Ellis added a three-run shot in the Oakland Athletics’ 8-3 victory Friday night that snapped Boston’s seven-game winning streak. Harden (3-0) didn’t allow a hit until Dustin Pedroia’s solo homer with one out in the fourth on the way to ...
Schilling continues throwing program
2008-05-24 02:46:00
Curt Schilling took a key step Friday in his rehabilitation from the shoulder injury that has sidelined him all year: He played long toss from 140 feet. While it doesn’t sound like much even to Schilling, he knows that each step in the process is important. The 41-year-old right-hander is on the 60-day disabled list recovering ...
News analysis: Myers working through issues
2008-05-23 22:38:00
In just a few short weeks, Phillies pitcher Brett Myers has gone from Opening Day starter to one of the team’s biggest question marks of the young season. Read the full story.
Should Brewers fire manager Yost?
2008-05-23 00:43:00
Has Milwaukee already peaked with Ned Yost as manager? Dayn Perry wonders if the Brew Crew would be better off without him. Read the full story.
Red Sox 11, Royals 8
2008-05-23 00:21:00
The Red Sox made winning look easy at Fenway Park the past few days. A no-hitter, two grand slams in a game and two pitchers coming up from Triple-A to get wins - it couldn’t have gone much better in a four-game sweep of Kansas City. J.D. Drew and Mike Lowell supplied the slams Thursday to help ...
Streaking Red Sox notch 7th straight win
2008-05-22 23:25:00
J.D. Drew and Mike Lowell hit grand slams to help Diasuke Matsuzaka remain unbeaten, and the Boston Red Sox completed a sweep of their seven-game homestand with an 11-8 win over the Kansas City Royals on Thursday. Drew and Lowell were the first Red Sox players to hit slams in the same game at Fenway Park ...
Should Brewers fire Yost?
2008-05-22 22:46:00
Has Milwaukee already peaked with Ned Yost as manager? Dayn Perry wonders if the Brew Crew would be better off without him. Read the full story.
Red Sox 6, Royals 3
2008-05-22 05:21:00
Bartolo Colon made a solid return to the majors after recovering from an elbow injury, posting his first win since last June as the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 6-3 Wednesday night. The 2005 Cy Young award winner allowed two runs in five innings in his first game since Sept. 29, when he ...
Colon gets win in first start for BoSox
2008-05-22 04:42:00
Bartolo Colon made a solid return to the majors after recovering from an elbow injury, posting his first win since last June as the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 6-3 Wednesday night. The 2005 Cy Young award winner allowed two runs in five innings in his first game since Sept. 29, when he ...
Red Sox call up Colon for first outing of season
2008-05-22 02:01:00
The Boston Red Sox called up Bartolo Colon from Pawtucket and sent right-hander Justin Masterson to the Triple-A team on Wednesday. Colon, the AL Cy Young award winner in 2005, started Wednesday night’s game against the Kansas City Royals. The Red Sox signed Colon to a minor league contract in spring training after he became a free ...
Closer hot seat: Borowski to return soon
2008-05-21 23:59:00
One closer pitches his way off the hot seat, while another has his ticket punched for the same trip next week. Read the full story.
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