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.
FORT MYERS, Fla. — While Tim Wakefield was getting stretched out, Daisuke Matsuzaka was just getting started. Two starting pitchers who should play significant roles for the 2010 Red Sox had entirely different objectives on Thursday afternoon against the Marlins. Wakefield, the veteran knuckleballer, was simply looking to put the finishing touches on what has [...]
BRADENTON, Fla. — He is 26 years old and is already in possession of a World Series ring, an all-time club single-season record for stolen bases, a steal of home on national television against the Yankees and the reputation of a player who sparks his team with his legs and bat. But there is the [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia was removed from Tuesday night's exhibition game against the Twins because of a mild left wrist sprain. Pedroia is day-to-day, and will undergo precautionary X-rays on Wednesday. The injury was sustained when Pedroia dove awkwardly for a ground ball by Twins leadoff man Denard Span [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Victor Martinez walked to his locker Monday morning, and a trail of reporters followed. Other players — including Marco Scutaro and Mike Lowell — smiled because they knew exactly what the line of questioning was going to be about. Joe Mauer, the perennial All-Star catcher and hitting machine, just signed an [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Last year at this time, he was the camp novelty for the Red Sox. Daniel Bard's 100-mph fastball ripped through the Florida air, overpowering established hitters such as Ivan Rodriguez. Now, however, his locker is in the central corner with all the other pitchers who will make the team, instead of [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Much to his own chagrin, Tim Wakefield opened camp as the obligatory veteran coming off surgery, leaving skeptics to wonder if he would be slow to recover. All along, Wakefield insisted his back was fine, and he assured everyone that the ailment that left him limping throughout the second half of [...]
BRADENTON, Fla. — It was a Friday of labor for Red Sox ace Josh Beckett, in large part because the man known for his meticulous preparation hardly got to do any. Unlike five days earlier, when an illness prevented him from being able to pitch, Beckett — though still a bit under the weather — [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — With the big league team off Thursday — its only scheduled off-day of the spring — right-hander Clay Buchholz toiled at the player development complex on the opposite end of Edison Avenue from City of Palms Park, in a Minor League game against a Twins' high Class A squad. The work [...]
METS 4, RED SOX 2at Fort Myers, Fla. Wednesday, March 17 Mets at the plate: After a three-hour bus ride across the swamps of Florida, the Mets put minimal pressure on a stout Red Sox pitching staff until Fernando Martinez broke through with a three-run homer in the eighth inning. Daniel Murphy later tacked on [...]
RAYS 7, RED SOX (ss) 0at Port Charlotte, Fla. Tuesday, March 16 Red Sox at the plate: Continuing to heat up this spring, David Ortiz singled twice — including once to the opposite field — off Rays starter Wade Davis. Mike Cameron also reached base twice against Davis, on a single and a walk. But [...]