BOSTON (AP) — Mookie Betts doesn’t seem to be badly hurt, so the Red Sox can focus on clinching the AL East at Yankee Stadium for the second time in three seasons. Betts gave Boston a scare when he injured his left side making two throws to home plate during a 4-3 win over the […]
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Rusty Staub, beloved MLB All-Star, dies on opening day
NEW YORK — Rusty Staub, the orange-haired outfielder who became a huge hit with baseball fans in two countries during an All-Star career that spanned 23 major league seasons, died Thursday. He was 73. He died after an illness in a hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, hours before the start of the baseball season, […]
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Mets trade reliever Addison Reed to Red Sox for 3 prospects
NEW YORK — The Mets traded reliever Addison Reed to the Boston Red Sox for three 22-year-old right-handed pitching prospects: Jamie Callahan, Gerson Bautista and Stephen Nogosek. Boston began Monday a half-game back in the AL East race and were looking to boost their bullpen for a title run. A 28-year-old right-hander, Reed is 1-2 […]
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World Series Game 1: Royals walk off on Mets
Making his Series debut at age 42, Colon escaped a bases-loaded jam in the 12th, then got out of trouble again after allowing a leadoff hit in the 13th. Alcides Escobar, who hit an inside-the-park home run on Matt Harvey’s first pitch of the night, reached leading off the 14th on an error by third […]
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MLB: Red Sox slide past Mets, 4-3
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Matt Harvey allowed three hits over four scoreless innings for his second strong start following elbow surgery, and the New York Mets lost to the Boston Red Sox 4-3 Monday. Hours after the Mets learned Zack Wheeler likely will need Tommy John surgery, Harvey made his third appearance since elbow […]
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C’s can’t beat Magic’s act
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — Patience appears to be paying off for Boston Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts. Bogaerts homered and drove in four runs, Rick Porcello pitched three innings and the Red Sox beat the New York Mets 6-3 Sunday. Bogaerts hit an early RBI single off starter Jonathon Niese. Then after a […]
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Baseball: Former Oxford Hills and USM star Verrier catches on in Canada
Matt Verrier arrived in Moncton, New Brunswick in early June and found a city on edge. Verrier was there to play some baseball, but the city of 65,000 was preoccupied with findng a man suspected of killing three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers “The shooter was on the loose. The whole city was on lockdown […]