The Boston Red Sox, based in Boston, Mass., participate in Major League Baseball (MLB) and are a member of the American League East Division. The Red Sox were founded as the Boston Somersets in 1901.
BOSTON — When you have the blazing speed of Jacoby Ellsbury, daring thoughts can't help but enter the mind. So, yes, the center fielder often contemplated stealing home but never had quite the right confluence of events to give it a shot. It all came together for Ellsbury against the Yankees on Sunday night at [...]
BOSTON — Their bullpen taxed after a pair of exhausting games against the Yankees, the Red Sox summoned right-hander Michael Bowden for Sunday night's game, essentially giving the prospect a one-day ticket to the Majors. Bowden will be sent back to Triple-A Pawtucket after the game, and the Red Sox are expected to use his [...]
BOSTON — There were more dizzying dramatics for the Red Sox against their rivals on Saturday, when the truest form of a slugfest unfolded. Even after sustaining an early 6-0 deficit, the Red Sox found a way to outbash the Yankees, 16-11, in a wild contest at Fenway Park. In a game billed as a [...]
BOSTON — If the Red Sox continue to win games the way they won the past two, this season is eventually going to remind a lot of people of 2004 and '07. Yes, it is extremely early for major pronouncements, but there is never an inappropriate time to turn seemingly certain defeat into extremely uplifting [...]
They are torrid at the moment, these Red Sox. And a win on Sunday night against the Yankees would give Boston not just a three-game sweep against its longtime rivals, but also a 10-game winning streak and a perfect (9-0) homestand. As it is, the nine-game streak is the longest April run in Red Sox [...]
BOSTON — All night, they had chances, and all night, they were going by the boards. But by the time it came to what appeared to be last call — the bottom of the ninth, two outs and Jason Bay at the plate — eight innings of frustration disappeared entirely and soon turned into utter [...]
BOSTON — Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is not mad at Yankees right-hander Joba Chamberlain. He is not issuing the hard-throwing pitcher any ultimatums or scare tactics. If anything, Ortiz just urges Chamberlain to be careful with high-and-tight pitches before he develops a reputation that becomes tough to shake. Ortiz, in between games of Wednesday's [...]
BOSTON — If all goes well for Julio Lugo in Triple-A this weekend, the shortstop is expected to be in Red Sox manager Terry Francona's starting lineup on Monday night in Cleveland for the start of a nine-game road trip. Lugo, who missed the entire second half of last season with left quad woes, underwent [...]
Yes, it is still April. But when the Red Sox and Yankees face off, the calendar tends to become less relevant. When the rivals square off for the first time in 2009 with Friday night's meeting at Fenway, you can be sure that the atmosphere will feel more like October. Doesn't it always when these [...]
BOSTON — With the Yankees coming to town for the first time, the stars happen to be aligned just right for the Red Sox. No, not the stars that hover above, but rather the ones that fill out Boston manager Terry Francona's lineup. The renewal of the rivalry — which takes place Friday night at [...]