Boston Red Sox timeline
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Boston Red Sox defeat Oakland Athletics, 8-3
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Odd to be back here. It was 11 months ago that Derek Lowe punched out Terrence Long and performed a regrettable salute to cap... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Oakland Athletics, 7-1
OAKLAND, Calif. -- A professional athlete sidelined by an injury might as well be a dead man. Harsh, but true. If you are too hurt to play, you... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Oakland Athletics, 8-3
OAKLAND -- Amid the stormy gloom in Gotham, the rain-idled Yankees last night had plenty of time to gather in front of their televisions and watch... Read more
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Seattle Mariners defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-1
SEATTLE -- Forget about the curse and the Sports Illustrated jinx. The Red Sox last night fell victim to a brief revival of their first-half... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Seattle Mariners, 13-2
SEATTLE -- So, Jason Varitek, we all know you are the de facto captain of the Boston Red Sox. You are the quiet leader of this team, the man who... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Seattle Mariners, 9-0
SEATTLE -- Former Red Sox righthander Carl Mays died in 1971, the year Pedro Martinez, Kevin Millar, and Bill Mueller were born. When Mays died,... Read more
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Seattle Mariners defeat Boston Red Sox, 2-0
SEATTLE -- Something was wrong, and it troubled Jason Varitek. No, it wasn't Manny Ramirez's base-running blunder that cost Varitek an RBI and... Read more
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Tampa Bay Rays defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-2
Kevin Millar, at the center of a scrum of New York media types seeking some back-page material for the weekend Red Sox-Yankees series, insisted... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Rays, 8-6
It was uglier than a Muddy River bullfrog, but with the Yankees playing actual baseball again and another Battle of the Bronx beginning tomorrow,... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Rays, 11-4
Raise a cup to the computer nerds. If not for the number crunchers on Yawkey Way who were savvy enough last November to allay Curt Schilling's... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 3-2
NEW YORK -- No romantic comedies on the big screen in the visitors clubhouse at 161st Street last night as the Red Sox prepared to renew their epic... Read more
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New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 11-1
NEW YORK -- Slice it any which way and the pie looks the same. The piece that represents the odds of the Red Sox overtaking the Yankees for the... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 3-2
Forget the Yankees, Angels, A's, Twins, and anyone else you might think stands in the way. Last night was all about the Red Sox regaining their... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-6
As the late, great broadcaster Ned Martin might have exclaimed, "Mercy." For the second straight game, the Red Sox last night overcame an... Read more
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Baltimore Orioles defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-7
Maybe now's the time for Papa Jack to break out his signature T-shirts, emblazoned with his rally cry: "Somebody gotta pay." With the Yankees... Read more
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New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-4
In the dead of winter last January, Terry Francona faced the largest crowd of Red Sox fans since he succeeded Grady Little as the franchise's 44th... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 12-5
No frothy champagne showers. No celebratory sprints to the Baseball Tavern. No grateful hugs from principal owner John W. Henry. On the first... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 11-4
Leave it to the greatest rivalry in sports to nearly turn a lovefest into an alley fight. One minute, all was bliss in the Fens yesterday as the... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Rays, 7-3
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The wackiest bunch of barnstormers in 21st century baseball, the renegade Red Sox last night played their way into the... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Rays, 10-8
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Take it from Theo Epstein, who sounded a little bit like Tina Turner revving up in the opening of "Proud Mary" when he... Read more
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Tampa Bay Rays defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-4
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- As long as the last ember flickered in their fading bonfire of opportunity, the Red Sox planned to keep hope alive. As long... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 8-3
BALTIMORE -- All Tim Wakefield needed to do last night, it turned out, was pitch adequately and emerge uninjured to secure a spot in the postseason... Read more
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Boston Red Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-5
BALTIMORE -- Giving new meaning to an old baseball expression, gopher ball, the Red Sox remained in the dark last night about their first-round... Read more