ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Shane Victorino’s infield single snapped a seventh-inning tie and journeyman Craig Breslow gave Boston a huge boost out of the bullpen, sending the Red Sox into the AL championship series with a 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night.Koji Uehara got the final four outs — one night […]
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Farrell mum on rotation
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell isn’t ready to announce his rotation for the AL division series.It would be a surprise, though, if Jon Lester didn’t throw the first pitch in Friday’s opener at Fenway Park.“We all gain confidence from every starting pitcher that goes out and keeps a game under control,” […]
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Waiting game for Red Sox
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox have decisions to make and plenty of time to make them.After tying for the best record in the majors, they don’t play until Friday night when they host the opener of the AL division series.Should they keep 11 pitchers in the best-of-five series? Or can they get by […]
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The Hot Corner: Set up for an October to remember
The Major League Baseball postseason is here. For the first time since 2009, the Boston Red Sox are involved. Look around and you can almost tell. I don’t sense a groundswell of expectations from the “casual fan” heading into October. Perhaps that is reason to lift hands to heaven in a prayer of thanksgiving. We […]
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Rockies come down on Red Sox
DENVER (AP) — Charlie Blackmon hit his first career leadoff homer and Tyler Chatwood pitched seven strong innings, lifting the Colorado Rockies to an 8-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.John Lackey (10-13) struggled on the road again, allowing four runs and six hits in six innings. The right-hander is 1-5 away […]
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Blue Jays take down Red Sox
BOSTON (AP) — Clay Buchholz lost for the first time this season, and the AL East champion Boston Red Sox rested a couple of regulars while falling to Mark Buehrle and the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 Saturday night.A day after the Red Sox clinched the division title, they lost for just the sixth time in […]
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Red Sox clinch playoff birth
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox clinched their first postseason berth since 2009, beating the Baltimore Orioles 3-1 Thursday night behind John Lackey’s two-hitter. Coming off a last-place finish and a 69-93 record — their most losses since 1965, the Red Sox have rebounded under first-year manager John Farrell and ensured at least a wild-card berth […]
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Orioles top Sox in 12th inning
BOSTON — Chris Davis hit a tiebreaking two-run single with two outs in the 12th inning, lifting the Baltimore Orioles to a 5-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night. Matt Wieters had a pair of RBI doubles for Baltimore, which closed to one game back of Texas for the AL’s second wild-card […]
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Red Sox shelve Yankees
BOSTON (AP) — Clay Buchholz pitched six innings of two-hit ball to improve to 11-0 and Daniel Nava had four hits to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 9-2 victory over New York on Sunday night and eliminate the Yankees from the AL East race. Boston leads second-place Tampa Bay by 9½ games with a […]
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In the Crease: This and that from around the world of sports
Ever have so much you want to talk about — or write about — that you can’t decide where to start? Happens to us here at the Sun Journal all the time. Instead of trying to narrow it down, let’s go through a handful of those items in brief: • The Patriots-Jets fiasco, and Thursday […]