Boston Red Sox Events

Pokey Reese was peeved. Mark Bellhorn was miffed. Keith Foulke seemed so mad at himself that he might take a bite out of his right arm. And while manager Terry Francona made little secret...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- If there was a benefit, as Red Sox manager Terry Francona maintained, to having Derek Lowe be the pitcher chosen to start the season's second half, it was apparent only...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The Red Sox beat the Angels, 4-2, last night, but may lose slugger David Ortiz for a few games. Ortiz was called out on strikes leading off the seventh inning and go...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The Red Sox were awaiting word yesterday from Major League Baseball disciplinarian Bob Watson on the fate of slugger David Ortiz in the aftermath of Friday night's ejec...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- If the Red Sox are at a crossroads, as general manager Theo Epstein said yesterday, Curt Schilling left no doubt that he won't be satisfied with anything less than a on...

SEATTLE -- The new tattoo is on Gabe Kapler's giant, muscular left calf. It's a view of the San Fernando Valley coming up the 405 from Los Angeles. It's got buildings and mountains bathed...

SEATTLE -- Sleep? Please. Not at this dateline, not under those circumstances. A game like the Red Sox lost Monday night to the Seattle Mariners will leave a man with his eyes wide shu...

By many accounts, the situation was dire. With their middle infield badly depleted, the Red Sox last night had little choice but to tap Mark Bellhorn to play shortstop and Bill Mueller to...

Enough was enough. With one dispiriting loss leading to another as they plunged a whopping nine games behind the division-leading Yankees, the Red Sox made no secret after they dropped th...

Enough was enough. With one dispiriting loss leading to another as they plunged a whopping nine games behind the division-leading Yankees, the Red Sox made no secret after they dropped th...

It's that time of year. Jason Varitek walked into the Red Sox clubhouse yesterday and stopped cold. "I looked at the lineup," he said, "and thought I got traded." Wrong. It's just t...

Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the Hub Chamber of Commerce should be thankful for the long journey into night at Fenway Park yesterday. There are a lot of first-time visitors in Boston this w...

Happy Days Are Here Again? On the eve of Boston's Democratic National Convention, with the home-grown nominee sitting in the front row by the Red Sox dugout -- on the heels of their drama...

BALTIMORE -- For all the inspirational rhetoric, the Red Sox knew deep in their souls that the potential season-turning events in their instant classic Saturday against the Yankees would ...

BALTIMORE -- As much as they dreaded the prospect of losing David Ortiz, Jason Varitek, and maybe others in the coming days to suspensions, the Red Sox took some comfort in riding a three...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The idea was to upgrade the team's woeful defense. So the last thing the Red Sox needed the day after they traded away franchise shortstop Nomar Garciaparra was to endure t...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Leave it to the youngest kid in the major leagues to distill the problem to its essence. At 19, B.J. Upton last night was minutes away from making his highly antic...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- With the Nomar Garciaparra firestorm still flickering, Theo Epstein last night turned his attention to the team he rebuilt by cutting loose his franchise shortstop...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- As Derek Lowe struggled early in the season, he looked for someone to join him in a stepped-up workout program. He needed someone as eager to improve as he was. ...

DETROIT -- The easy excuse would be to blame it on David Ortiz's nutty last month in Anaheim, Calif. Maybe Ortiz could have made a difference last night if he were playing rather than fin...

DETROIT -- They desperately were seeking something: a spark, a galvanizing event, a turning point, anything to launch them toward the playoffs as they reached the two-thirds point of a co...

DETROIT -- Terry Francona sat in a chair in his office with his hands over his scarred knees, happy and somewhat relieved that his team's four-city, 11-game road trip had ended with six w...

But for a feverish Manny Ramirez, the stars could not have been aligned more favorably for a flying start to this 10-game homestand for the Red Sox. Curt Schilling on the mound on which h...

Sometimes the best way for a pitcher to grow is to deal with adversity. That's what happened last night to Bronson Arroyo in the sixth inning of the Red Sox' 8-4 victory over Tampa Bay...

Call him selfish if you must. But you might want to think twice before begrudging Kevin Millar the right to lobby to have his name on the lineup card, especially when he's swinging the ba...

Lots of laughs last night at the Comedy Connection. Lots of fun as Tim Wakefield and Johnny Damon hosted the kickoff party for their charity golf tournament. And why not? The Red Sox a...

Winning streak or not, Kevin Millar usually finds a way to keep things light in the Red Sox clubhouse, as he did before last night's game by grabbing a set of boxing gloves from Ellis Bur...

Family Day in the Fens means fun and games to most folks. Players toddle around the bases with wide-eyed kids. Mothers beam. Children smile. All is bliss on the sun-splashed emerald lawn....

It's a case he could have made more convincingly with something other than a half-swing tapper to the pitcher for the final out of yet another in a seemingly endless series of one-run los...

There are games in which players renew their vows as teammates, and last night's 8-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays was one of them. It may not have been as clear as it was in the Yan...

Let's say Boston is the sun of the baseball universe, where hope and criticism burn bright, where a city revolves around the game. Staying with the metaphor, that would make Montreal b...

The jarring image of a brooding David Ortiz angrily snapping his maple bat over his knee? Forget about it. Ortiz spoke only for himself in his pique of frustration after he grounded...

CHICAGO -- This national TV stuff, Terry Francona still has some work to do. "I showed up for the wrong inning," said the Red Sox manager, who had been lined up to do a between-innings in...

CHICAGO -- The baseball gods appeared to smile on the Red Sox last night as they opened the finale of their weekend series in the Windy City. The Rangers already had lost to the Royals, g...

TORONTO -- The powerful Red Sox offense, which last week had the Nation checking Yankee box scores for the first time in weeks, was rendered all but powerless last night by the artistry o...

TORONTO -- Maybe the capricious forces that rule the baseball universe, the ones that so far this summer have dictated that 26 of the 30 teams in the major leagues would have won more one...

TORONTO -- If the faithful among Red Sox Nation looked to the sky late last night, they may have been convinced that it was aglow with a late-summer display of Northern Lights. Instead, i...

When the history of the 2004 Red Sox is written, the hardball poets will cite July 31 as the turning point of the season. That's right, all you Nomie Krishnas, still wearing those No. 5 j...

When the Tigers wasted little time taking a 1-0 lead off Derek Lowe in the first inning, Terry Francona surmised if Lowe's shaky start had come in the first half of the season, Lowe might...

Signs of a fun-loving team on a rapturous roll: Derek Lowe paying a goofy tribute to Red Sox starter Pedro Martinez by donning a Dominican flag do-rag, wrapping David Ortiz's long chain a...

The way things have turned their way in recent weeks, the Red Sox seemed strong enough to overcome even the loss of Manny Ramirez to an injury. But they were grateful just the same when t...

Regardless of where you were sitting last night in a sellout crowd of 35,040 in Fenway Park -- even if you were behind home plate, with Curt Schilling's unblinking gaze boring in at you f...

A word about Angels in the outfield, and we're not talking about the Hollywood original with Paul Douglas and Keenan Wynn, or the remake with Christopher Lloyd and Danny Glover. This is a...

LeBron flubs a dunk now and then. Tiger muffs a 2-footer or two. Ichiro even swings and misses occasionally. But the Red Sox? The way they have mastered the art of winning, Terry Franc...

The brains behind the Red Sox spent long winter nights calculating what it might take to end the franchise's 86-year championship famine. The more the Yankees loaded up -- hello, Alex Rod...

It didn't take anything so drastic as driving a stake through Manny Ramirez's heart, but to the Texas Rangers, who brought an end to the Red Sox' 10-game winning streak here, it almost fe...

When it began, the Red Sox were 5 1/2 games behind the Yankees in the American League East and tied with Anaheim for the wild-card lead. When it ended, this nigh-perfect 10-game Fenway...