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Opening Day at Fenway Park was just six months ago, but feels like it happened in a different season entirely.

Hours before the most imporant game of the year, it was just another afternoon in Terry Francona's office.

Jason Varitek, right, pats Jed Lowrie, second from right, after Lowrie's grand slam that brought home Varitek, George Kottaras, second from left, and Joey Gathright, behind center, in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians, Sunday, Oct.

The Red Sox are carrying a lot of baggage - literally - as they get read to open the Division Series here tomorrow night.

Randy posted a link to a Ken Rosenthal article predicting an LA victory in the ALDS.

Rocco Baldelli went to bed on Friday night hoping for the best. With the playoffs right around the corner, there's no worse time to receive a visit from the injury bug than the final days of the regular season.

Peter Huoppi grew up in Connecticut, just a few steps northeast of the Munson-Nixon line.

Fans react as Toronto Blue Jays catcher Rod Barajas dives over the wall to catch a foul pop by Boston Red Sox's George Kottaras during the seventh inning in a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston on Wednesday, Sept.

We've clinched! Now do these games really matter? Eh, sure. Let's go out with a bang.

It had been shaping up as a terrible trip to the Midwest, a lost midweek series in Kansas City, as the Red Sox dropped their first two games to a Royals team playing far better than its record.

The Boston Red Sox placed right-handed pitcher Junichi Tazawa on the 60-day disabled list Monday due to a mild left groin strain.

It's not that they don't have a clue and it's not that they haven't been around the block a few times, but the Boston Red Sox might have learned something about themselves Thursday night.

In baseball, victories are like runs. Not all of them are earned. The Red Sox got one of those unearned wins last night when the beat the Angels, 8-7, in one of the wildest games played at Fenway Park in a while.

A 10-game road trip beckons, and even if they can hold off the Texas Rangers, they aren't likely to clinch until the final week.

Terry Francona likes his players just a little feisty, so he was tickled pink with the conversation he had with Victor Martinez Tuesday night.

Two new players - shortstop Jed Lowrie and catcher Dusty Brown - joined the cast and crew of the 2009 Red Sox on Tuesday.

Boston Red Sox catcher George Kottaras tags out Tampa Bay Rays runner Gregg Zaun at the plate during the eighth inning yesterday in St.

After his first comeback from back and calf woes had to be aborted following just one start, Tim Wakefield [ stats ] will give it another try this afternoon against the White Sox.

As major league rosters expand starting today, the Red Sox are expected to make a few additions for the stretch run.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Joey Gathright is known for many things, and he jokingly wishes more of them were baseball-related. There's his ability to jump over cars, which was captured for posterity in a five-star YouTube video in 2002.