Red Sox

The baseball foodchain dictates that you gotta feast on the lesser teams, and the Sox did just that in Seattle, sweeping away the Mariners and doing everything short of hanging Ichiro by his jock from...

Ah yes, Safeco Field in Seattle, home of the last place Seattle Pilots.....err..Mariners. It's the place where teams come in and win, and that modus operandi worked well for the Boston Red Sox Thursda...

By Dan Hickling Globe Correspondent PORTLAND, Maine -- Ortiz up in the bottom of the third, runners on first and second, one away. Grounds into double play on a first pitch fastball, and is walking o...

Lose some, win some. In multiples of three. The funny thing? The Red Sox could have gone 5-1 on this road trip had they been able to close out a couple of games in Anaheim. At the time time, they coul...

By Dan Hickling Globe Correspondent PORTLAND, Maine -- Facing Connecticut starter Brooks McNiven, Ortiz walks on five pitches in first at bat. Not one swing for Ortiz, as McNiven fell behind 3-1, the...

By Dan Hickling Globe Correspondent PORTLAND, Maine -- We are indeed underway. Headed to the bottom of the first. Ortiz slated to bat third. More to come.

By Dan Hickling, Globe Correspondent PORTLAND, Maine -- Tarp is coming off the field, and we’re advised that an 8:45 first pitch is hoped for. Ortiz spoke outside the Sea Dog clubhouse just moments ...

By Dan Hickling Globe Correspondent PORTLAND, Maine -- A few more thoughts from Ortiz’s impromptu presser. Game time, is now set for 9 p.m. Ortiz’s thoughts about sticking around and playing. “Hope...

The Sox completed a 3-game sweep of the M's, but not before Craig Hansen put the potential winning run on base in the bottom of the 12th. An infield hit by Willie Bloomquist and a smash up the middle ...

Courtesy MLB Trade Rumors, CBSSports.com has this perplexing rumor. he Red Sox are deep in conversations with the White Sox on a trade that would send infielder Juan Uribe to Boston, according to sour...

Jonathan Papelbon escaped a jam of his own making--he stumbled while trying to field Jose Vidro's leadoff tapper in the 11th--by inducing Kenji Johjima to hit into an inning-ending double play with Se...

With two on and two out in the 11th, the situation screamed for Manny Ramirez to hit for Coco Crisp, but evidently Manny was not available because of his sore right knee. Crisp hit an excuse-me ground...

Ichiro ran down a line drive by Kevin Youkilis near the foul line, then throwing across his body doubled off J.D. Drew, who had walked. Something you may not have known about J.D. There have been 1...

Why not extra innings on the team's last West Coast swing? Manny Delcarmen retired Bloomquist on a grounder to second to end the ninth. Both teams are playing in their seventh extra-inning game....

By Dan Hickling, Globe Correspondent PORTLAND, Maine -- Officially in a rain delay. We’ve just been advised that the rain is supposed to stop sometime before 8 p.m., at which time, they’ll hopefully ...

Ellsbury certainly isn't taking his at-bats out to left field with him. He made a nice catch of Yuniesky Betancourt's sinking liner for the inning's first out. Then, when Coco Crisp got a late break o...