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 — A couple of hours after a nearly epic against the Blue Jays fell short in an 8-7 loss, the Red Sox at last got the ending they were looking for, even if it occurred 3,000 miles from Fenway Park on Tuesday. Once the Rangers suffered a 5-2 loss to the Angels in Anaheim, [...]
BOSTON — It has become a familiar sequence of events for the Red Sox in recent autumns. They clinch a spot in the postseason and gear up for an American League Division Series matchup with the always-pesky Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Here we go again, as the Red Sox — who clinched the AL [...]
BOSTON — First, the Red Sox will play a baseball game on Tuesday night. And if it goes the way they hope, there will be a party afterwards. The Sox will take the field against the Blue Jays with a magic number of just one to clinch their sixth postseason berth in the past seven [...]
BOSTON — A mini-rut, compounded by some late-season nagging injuries, has delayed the Red Sox from clinching a postseason berth that has felt inevitable for a couple of weeks. Ace Josh Beckett was scratched from Monday night's start with mild back spasms, giving prospect Michael Bowden a chance to step up. It didn't happen, as [...]
BOSTON — As the Red Sox come back to Fenway to close out the regular season with a seven-game homestand, they are on the verge of clinching their sixth postseason berth in the past seven years. The magic number for nailing down the American League Wild Card berth is down to two. If the Red [...]
NEW YORK — After winning their first eight head-to-head encounters with the Yankees this season for the first time since 1912, it seemed hard to imagine that the Red Sox wouldn't take the season series between the rivals. But in the latest example of wild momentum shifts between the two American League East heavyweights, the [...]
NEW YORK — It is the time of year when a postseason-bound team — as the Red Sox certainly appear to be — can take the sting out of a loss and look at what it might mean to the big picture. If Daisuke Matsuzaka had come up on the short end of a riveting [...]
NEW YORK — Though Sunday afternoon is hardly the most critical rivalry showdown in recent memory, the Red Sox can think of a couple of good reasons to push hard for a victory. The first is that they don't much feel like getting swept for the second consecutive time in New York. The second is [...]
NEW YORK — At first, there was panic. How could there not be? Jon Lester, Boston's star southpaw, was in agony and on the ground after getting belted on the right knee by a Melky Cabrera line drive on Friday night at Yankee Stadium. Had the Red Sox just been dealt a fatal blow to [...]
NEW YORK — The image of Jon Lester writhing in pain following his 78th and final pitch was symbolic of an all-around bad Friday night for the Red Sox, who were thumped by the Yankees, 9-5, in the opener of a three-game series. Lester had been belted around by the Yankees throughout his 2 1/3-inning [...]