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It's disconcerting, if not downright alarming, when the emotionally poised Alan Embree thinks that relieving anxiety the way Derek Lowe did Wednesday night -- by throwing a Dodger Stadium...

Do not get caught up in the stats. That should be lesson No. 1 in the soon-to-be-released Hub hardball primer, ''Baseball for Idiots" (foreword by you-know-who). The numbers, clearly, ...

ST. LOUIS -- A single jarring clap of thunder exploded above this city along the Mississippi just after noon yesterday, waking Edgar Renteria from his sleep. Thus, the emotional spin c...

ST. LOUIS -- Anytime, anyplace -- the more daunting, the better -- the 2004 Red Sox were up for a fight. So, too, it seems, is the 2005 edition, only these Red Sox, an evolving collection...

ST. LOUIS -- It was no surprise that at 12:22 EDT this morning David Wells was still awake. The stunning part is that Wells, notorious for his early-morning existence, was still pitching....

CHICAGO -- It was an odd scene in an odd season for Alan Embree. Amid a three-run Chicago seventh inning, with Embree pitching mop-up duty, Dave Wallace popped up out of the dugout and he...

CHICAGO -- Wade Miller gave the Red Sox what they needed (7 innings) and more (2 hits off his own bat), but not even that was enough yesterday. A team playing with a deck lacking an ac...

CHICAGO -- Tim Wakefield didn't throw a complete game last night. He played one. The Sox righthander went to the Wrigley Field mound amid a brutal slide, having lost four consecutive s...

Jason Varitek had one of those whirlwind days. The nice kind. The Red Sox didn't return from Chicago until 2:45 a.m., and Varitek went straight from the airport to the hospital, where ...

The temperature was 37 degrees cooler (54) than the night before. The wind was swirling, but mostly blowing in. Fenway Park, in the words of Terry Francona, ''played big." That perf...

That booming voice of his -- as it tends to do around the Red Sox clubhouse -- preceded David Ortíz. ''Hey, Terry," said Ortíz as he made his way toward the manager's office before las...

Matt Clement came to the Red Sox in December much like the slider he used to befuddle many a righthanded Pittsburgh batter yesterday -- that is, backdoor. The Sox prioritized in November,...

CLEVELAND -- His eyes fatigued and his voice steady but quieter than usual, David Wells looked less like Boomer and more like a Baby Boomer. In fact, it looked like he'd been napping. ...

CLEVELAND -- His ability to project the future prices of many types of goods made John Henry a billionaire capable of one day buying the Red Sox. His ability to project the future talent ...

CLEVELAND -- Keith Foulke won (he's 5-3). Alan Embree inherited a bases-loaded situation in the sixth inning and escaped unscored upon (he fanned a batter looking, then induced a double p...

PHILADELPHIA -- The high school reunion analogy works perfectly. Terry Francona was the teen geek -- white socks, ear-to-ear zits, a pocket protector. He was bullied and wedgied and th...

The long ball is dead. Long live the long ball. You may want to rethink all that stuff you heard about the incredibly shrinking slugger and the reemergence of ''small ball" in the wake...

PHILADELPHIA -- He's one of the only remaining Sox players who can still provide ammo for the fellowship of the miserable. Oh, there's still some local grumbling about Keith Foulke, Alan ...

It was all too good, far too good to continue. The wins, 12 in 13 games. The hits, 10 or more in 12 of 13 games. The starting pitching, 9-0 with a 2.20 ERA in those 13 games. The 96-36 cu...

We do not have to quote him on being squeezed by plate umpire Larry Young, or bail him out by saying Mark Bellhorn should have tagged out Jody Gerut at second after a perfect throw from M...

All they wanted was a routine ballgame. No late-game disasters. Good starting pitching, timely hitting, effective relief. The Sox needed it about as much as they've needed it in any...

It won't be anywhere as dramatic as the Tampa Summit called by their Yankee cousins earlier this week, but with Theo and the Trio on the premises last night, bearing witness to the Sox' 1...

A season is all about evolution, a player finding himself, and, when called for, management finding someone new. Plenty of that was on display yesterday at Fenway Park on what was, beginn...

Mike Timlin stood before his locker yesterday evening, his son at his side, devastation the mood of the hour. Timlin, like Matt Clement, was crestfallen to learn he was not named to the A...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Keith Foulke says when he's out in public people call him Kevin (Faulk). Maybe that's because the diminutive Patriots running back might be a better choice right now t...

If Keith Foulke had been merely bad, Shaughnessy would be onto something. The American League East race really would be over. The mystery is how it is even remotely possible for them t...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Johnny Damon wasn't afraid to give his opinion on Curt Schilling being added to the bullpen before last night's 7-4 victory over the Rangers. And when Damon was told a...

BALTIMORE -- The humane approach failed the Red Sox last night. Because of an all-night flight from Texas, manager Terry Francona went to great lengths to rest his weary players. But on a...

BALTIMORE -- Boredom -- a sweet respite from roster moves, surgery and controversial comments -- overwhelmed the Red Sox clubhouse yesterday, extending from their spacious home in the vis...

BALTIMORE -- They say it's impossible for a slumping slugger to hit a five-run homer, but yesterday the Red Sox were done in by a six-run catch in a 9-1 whipping by the Orioles. Come a...

BALTIMORE -- Even as the Sox stumbled into the All-Star break by losing for the third time in four games here yesterday against the Baltimore Orioles, 4-1, you still could take the long v...

Gabe Kapler, the utility outfielder adored by his former manager and ex-Red Sox teammates for his slingshot arm, versatility, and infectious disposition, will be in Fort Myers, Fla., toda...

Sandy Nixon had a standing agreement with her Little League-playing son, Trot, who turned 11 the year Nike released its first shoe named after fellow North Carolinian Michael Jordan. '...

The idea that he might be a villain in Fenway Park handcuffed Gary Sheffield more than any Red Sox pitcher has the last three games. ''The who?" he asked. The villain. You know, the...

Doug Mirabelli knew he and the Red Sox were in trouble long before Al Leiter, the 11th starting pitcher used by the Yankees this season, a major league high, left the mound in the seventh...

Even while his team continues its free fall, the Red Sox manager has good perspective. ''I don't wake up in the morning and run to the radio to see how I'm being perceived," Terry Fran...

Theo Epstein was impressed with Curt Schilling's first save with the Red Sox last night, but he was more impressed with his outing Monday night when the general manager thought Schilling'...

Nixon didn't start for the second consecutive game but did pinch hit and walked in the eighth inning of yesterday's 9-4 win over the Devil Rays. Tuesday night, Nixon also pinch hit in the...

CHICAGO -- Alone with his thoughts? Hardly. After White Sox third baseman Joe Crede dropped Manny Ramirez's pop fly near the third base railing in the ninth inning last night, you could h...

CHICAGO -- Momentum, Terry Francona likes to say, is the following night's starting pitcher. And so, a night after Manny Ramirez drove a stake through the hearts of Joe Crede and the 36,7...

CHICAGO -- The ball skipped up the middle, and Scott Podsednik -- a burner with 18 more stolen bases than anyone else in baseball -- was aboard to begin Wade Miller's night. The next batt...

CHICAGO -- Matt Clement pitched three full summers for the Cubs and lived in downtown Chicago all that time. And yet, Clement said last night, ''Three of my top 10 hottest days in Chicago...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Unlike Lou Piniella, who grabbed the chance to come home even if it added 10 years of worry lines to his visage, David Wells never contemplated pitching for the De...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Red Sox pitcher Matt Clement appeared to have escaped serious injury after being struck in the head by a line drive during the Sox' 10-9 win over the Devil Rays la...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The Red Sox lifted off into the Florida sky last night bound for Logan Airport and the brief ride to Fenway Park, where visitors would be awaiting their return. ...

Yes, Sox management appreciates Bill Mueller as Johnny Damon does -- ''I want my son to play like Billy Mueller," Damon said last night -- but the Red Sox' recent willingness to include M...

With trade talks lurching uncertainly between the Red Sox and New York Mets last night, another odd chapter to the Manny Ramirez saga played out yesterday, when Red Sox manager Terry Fran...

The rumbling in the stands began as soon as he stood up in the Red Sox dugout, a bat in his hand, and was a full-throttled, foot-stomping roar by the time he emerged from the dugout late ...