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Red Sox perform the ‘Monster Mash’ with homers The Boston Red Sox are no strangers to sending baseballs out of the ballpark with relative ease. In fact, they finished in the Top-10 for homers in all of MLB in 2021. With an offense this potent it’s no surprise that they weren’t hitting dinky-do shots like some other clubs and were sending these baseballs to the moon.
Will Kyle Schwarber be back? Has Eduardo Rodriguez pitched his last game in Boston? John Tomase details the positives and negatives of the 11 Red Sox players who could hit free agency.
The Boston Red Sox found themselves as World Series champions once again on this day eight years ago. On Oct. 30, 2013, the Red Sox clinched the World Series at Fenway Park, and it was the first time Boston was able to do so on its home turf since 1918. The Red Sox, of course, won the 2004 World Series while playing the Cardinals in St. Louis.
Oct. 29—Sports talk radio has been popping this week about the familiar travails of baseball. If all the hyperventilating could be condensed into a brief but pithy question, it might go, "Why would I want to sit there for 4 hours, 6 minutes (as we did Tuesday) watching two teams I don't care about — even if it is the World Series?" Baseball has a boring problem. It is uneventful and tedious to ...
The Red Sox’ 2021 season has been over for a week now, and manager Alex Cora is taking some time to reflect and give thanks. In an Instagram post Friday, Cora gave thanks to Red Sox fans who attended Fenway Park throughout the season. to #RedSoxNation.
The MLB Gold Glove finalists for 2021 were revealed Thursday, and three former Red Sox outfielders made the cut.
Oct. 28—The 2021 season is in the books, and what a season it was. The Red Sox vastly exceeded expectations to go from a last-place in 2020 to an appearance in the American League Championship Series. But how did each individual player do? This week we're handing out our grades for 2021, starting today with the position players. We'll have the pitchers grades on Friday. All names listed in ...
In Tuesday's Daily Dose, Ryan Boyer says he's ready to get the World Series started already. (Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports)
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora took to Twitter to thank the organization and fans after what he called an "amazing year."
Hunter Renfroe was named a Rawlings Gold Glove Award finalist Thursday at the right field position. The other two American League finalists are the Yankees’ Joey Gallo and the Astros’ Kyle Tucker. The Red Sox originally planned for Renfroe to split time in right field this season, but when they saw how dynamic a player he was and how he impacted the game, he became the everyday right fielder.
The hulking first baseman started the 2021 minor league season off with the Double-A Portland Sea Dogs, but after crushing 12 home runs and batting . across 77 games earned his first promotion to Triple-A Worcester Red Sox where he belted another three long balls in nine games. If a promotion to Triple-A was all Casas had done during the year, that would be pretty successful year, but he didn’t stop there.
Both manager Alex Cora and chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom deserve a ton of credit for the Boston Red Sox’s success in 2021. While Cora pulled the right strings from the dugout, Bloom assembled a talented roster that resulted in Boston being far more competitive than many expected. The Red Sox finished just two wins shy of reaching the World Series, losing to the Houston Astros in six games in the American League Championship Series.
Positive takeaways from the 2021 Boston Red Sox season While the Boston Red Sox fell short of their ultimate goal of winning the World Series, the 2021 season was still a success. Last Friday, the Red Sox season came to an end. A disappointment for sure for many Red Sox fans.
Although the Red Sox are out of the postseason thanks to an American League Championship Series Game 6 loss to Houston, that doesn’t mean that this series won’t have any implications on Boston’s future. Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom spoke to reporters Monday on a wide range of topics — including an initial outlook on the squad’s offseason plans — and it’s got us wondering, could any of the players on this year’s World Series rosters end up in Boston in 2022?
Just as importantly, the team didn't sell out its future to get there. "Even if we went all the way and won the whole thing, we wanted to come out of it feeling like this could be the start of something," Bloom told reporters three days after the Houston Astros eliminated Boston in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series. "We fell six wins short of that ultimate goal," Bloom said.
The 29-year-old Bogaerts signed a six-year, $120 million deal in 2019, a deal that runs through 2025 with an option for 2026. But that deal also included an opt-out after three seasons, allowing Bogaerts the freedom to pursue a bigger deal at age 30. His current deal pays him $20 million per year.
Did the Red Sox purposefully keep Christian Vázquez from earning more money in the final year of his contract? This is the question that should be on Red Sox fans’ minds in the first week of the offseason, as questions about options and free agents begin to swirl. Christian Vázquez signed a three-year, $13.55M deal with the Sox ahead of the 2019 season that included a club option for 2022.
After being eliminated from the postseason last Friday in Game Six of the ALCS by the Houston Astros, the Boston Red Sox held their end-of-year press conference featuring Chaim Bloom, Alex Cora, and Sam Kennedy on Monday. For the most part, the conversation has stuck to what you would normally expect, featuring mostly positive words about players who should be central figures of the offseason. The one newsworthy nugget from the presser was with the coaching staff.
Rebuilding plans for the Boston Red Sox are ahead of schedule. Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom said Monday that going from last place in 2020 to within six wins of a championship shows the organization is back on the track that led to four World Series titles since 2004. “Even if we went all the way and won the whole thing, we wanted to come out of it feeling like this could be the start of something,” Bloom told reporters three days after the Houston Astros eliminated Boston in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series.
The Boston Red Sox have three players named finalists for the 2021 Silver Slugger award.
Franchy Cordero won’t be going too far from the Red Sox after all. Boston on Friday — hours before Game 6 of the American League Championship Series began — designated the outfielder for assignment, but MLB.com’s Ian Browne reported Monday that Cordero has cleared waivers and will report to Triple-A Worcester. Cordero was acquired in the trade that sent Andrew Benintendi to the Kansas City Royals, along with a package of prospects.
The Houston Astros will be without the services of right-hander Lance McCullers Jr. after he declared himself out for the World Series on Monday. McCullers, 28, left Game 4 of the ALDS against the Chicago White Sox with forearm tightness and missed the ALCS against the Boston Red Sox, but remained hopeful he might return to the Fall Classic. He gave himself about a 1% chance, but doctors told him he needed 6-8 weeks before picking up a baseball.
A brilliant start from Luis Garcia and the red-hot Yordan Alvarez helped Houston beat Boston in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series 5-0.
Tomase: Five pivotal plays that cost Red Sox the ALCS originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The series sat on a platter, just waiting to be served to Boston's ravenous fans. Record the final six outs of Game 4 with Garrett Whitlock handing the ball to Nathan Eovaldi, and the Red Sox take a 3-1 lead in the American League Championship Series with a chance to close it out at home. We know what happened next.
Houston has a 3-2 lead over Boston in the ALCS and can clinch a spot in the World Series with a win on Friday.
Backs against the wall — occasionally by their own doing — these Boston Red Sox proved hard to pin down. The Houston Astros finally got them for good Friday night. Boston’s bats went quiet for the third straight game and the Red Sox bowed out of the AL Championship Series with a punchless 5-0 loss to the Astros in Game 6.
The Houston Astros are on their way to the World Series. They clinched their third American League pennant in five years Friday night with a Game 6 win over the Boston Red Sox. The Astros outlasted the Red Sox 4-2 in the series with Friday's 5-0 shutout.
It's a good day to be a Houston Astros fan — if you can handle a little controversy. The Astros are going to the World Series later this month, after besting the Boston Red Sox on Friday. This will mark the Astros' third appearance in the World Series in 5 years.
The Braves lead Los Angeles 3-2 in the NL Championship Series going into Game 6 Saturday night. ATLANTA (AP) – The Los Angeles Dodgers say Max Scherzer will not start Game 6 of the NL Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves on Saturday night. The Dodgers made the announcement on Friday night.
Yet the Astros won two of three at Fenway Park and now need just one win in two games at Minute Maid Park to send the Boston Red Sox packing. That brings us to Friday's Game 6, in which the Astros face Nathan Eovaldi — Boston’s best pitcher — for a third time in the series. Luis Garcia is scheduled to start for Houston.
And while the Sox' exciting season came crashing down in a 5-0 loss in Game 6 as they were eliminated from the A.L. Championship Series, the feeling outside the Red Sox clubhouse was largely positive. "I mean, it's really tough, obviously," said Kiké Hernandez, who signed a two-year, $14-million deal to play for Alex Cora. "Going home is never easy.
Two years after winning an AL Rookie of the Year Award, Yordan Alvarez has an AL Championship Series MVP to add to his trophy case. The video above is from a previous story. The 24-year-old Cuban was 4-for-4 with two doubles and a triple for the Houston Astros in Friday night's pennant-winning 5-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
Cora helped lead the Red Sox to a 92-70 record, good for an American League Wild Card spot after they were slated to finish fourth in the division and not even make the postseason. Boston defeated the New York Yankees in the AL Wild Card Game before stunning the first-place Tampa Bay Rays in the AL Division Series. The Red Sox’s season came to a bitter end Friday night in a 5-0 loss to the Astros in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series.
Prediction: Houston will clean the Sox clock to win the pennant and it will take less than Game 7 to do it. I still am asking what happened? I will leave the professional analysis to ones more savvy than I to tell it.
Oct. 22—The Red Sox have gotten plenty of offense since the American League Championship Series began. Through the first five games they have scored 28 runs on 40 hits against the Astros, so you can't say the lineup hasn't been productive. But when it comes to actually getting runners across the plate, the Red Sox have been remarkably one-dimensional. Since the ALCS began, the Red Sox have ...
Red Sox fans were excited to see the players off to Houston, and anxious to see how the team responds to two must-win games.
Oct. 21—BOSTON — Your grand slam-or-bust Boston Red Sox are on the wrong side of trouble. Unfortunately, they believed what we — fans, media and the rest of the baseball world — were telling them, that those blowout, grand-slam-laden wins in Games 2 and 3 put them in a category rarely seen in postseason baseball before. Yes, up there with '27 Yankees. It was euphoric and easy. Probably too ...
Nathan Eovaldi wants the ball, the pressure, the chance to extend Boston's season — all of it. "I love it," he said Thursday, a day before he was scheduled to face Houston in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series, which the Astros lead three games to two. "I feel like this is what everybody wants to do," Eovaldi said.
After three games off, Kevin Plawecki will return behind the plate for the Boston Red Sox. Given that Nathan Eovaldi is set to start in a must-win Game 6, it could have been assumed that Plawecki would crack the lineup, but manager Alex Cora didn’t confirm the update until Thursday. It’s an understandable game plan, since Boston’s season is riding on what happens at Minute Maid Park on Friday.
The one-handed snag from the Massachusetts resident was a top highlight of the pivotal playoff game.
Nathan Eovaldi wants the ball, the pressure, the chance to extend Boston’s season — all of it. I love it,” he said Thursday, a day before he was scheduled to face Houston in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series, which the Astros lead three games to two. I feel like this is what everybody wants to do,” Eovaldi said.
The Cubs are well-represented with seven players competing in the Arizona Fall League, including some of the organization's top prospects.
The postseason is obviously still going on and the Red Sox are still playing baseball, but on Thursday we got what was basically the first move of the offseason with some movement on the bottom of the Red Sox 40-man. The team announced on Thursday that they had reinstated Phillips Valdez from the COVID IL, and more consequentially designated Franchy Cordero for assignment in order to make room on the 40-man.
Larry Lucchino believes the robots are going to soon take over. At least, when it comes to the game of baseball. The debate around Major League Baseball implementing an automated strike zone flared up Tuesday night into Wednesday, after umpire Lan Diaz was criticized for more than a few controversial ball-strike calls during Game 4 of the American League Championship Series between the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros.
WALTHAM (CBS) – “Everyone is asking me, ‘what’s Kyle from Waltham? I’m like, uh what? said Red Sox first baseman Kyle Schwarber in a postgame news conference after Game 3 of the ALCS Monday night.
A 5-month-old became an instant sensation after an appearance on the Fenway Park videoboard, inspiring several creative chants from the crowd.
Doug Williams asks Anthony Recker, Sweeny Murti and Dan Graca what the most crushing Mets or Yankees loss of the last 20 years on the anniversary of 3 heartbreaking losses - "The Bloody Sock" in 2004 ALCS Game 6, "Wainwright Freezes Beltran" - 2006 NLCS Game 7, or "Altuve Walkoff" -2019 ALCS Game 6. Watch more Baseball Night in NY: https://ift.tt/3sU2OQM About Baseball Night in New York: On Baseball Night in New York, host Doug Williams is joined by a cast of leading New York baseball writers and other experts to discuss the latest off-season news involving the New York Mets, Yankees, and key division rivals
Despite some lackluster outings this postseason, Chaim Bloom is optimistic about Red Sox starter Chris Sale entering the pivotal Game 5 of the ALCS, and he explained why this morning.
The Red Sox look to push the Astros to the brink of elimination Tuesday night. Boston hosts Houston at Fenway Park for Game 4 of the American League Championship Series after a convincing 12-3 win Monday night in Game 3 helped the Red Sox take a 2-1 series lead. Nick Pivetta will take the mound for the Red Sox opposite of Zack Greinke.
Twenty-one baseball fans headed for the Red Sox vs. Astros ALCS game in Boston were involved in a horrific plane crash Tuesday ... but somehow, they all miraculously survived. Officials say a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 carrying the nearly two dozen people attempted to take off from Waller County, Texas ...
Here's the schedule for the next few days: Tuesday, Oct. 19 NLCS Game 3: Braves vs. Dodgers, 5:08 p.m. ET (2:08 p.m. PT) on TBS ALCS Game 4: Astros vs. Red Sox, 8:08 p.m.
People headed to the Red Sox-Houston ALCS Game 4 at Fenway Park escaped serious injury Tuesday morning when the plane they were aboard crashed outside of Houston, according to reports.
A local Amazon driver has been charged after police say he dressed as a woman to take illegal photos of women at a Wrentham mall. Scroll down for more on those and other stories Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today. Today's Top Story: Fox Pulls Plug On Vulgar Sox Fans Even during blowouts of Tampa Bay and Houston, the Fenway crowd has been resorting to ol' reliable: "Yankees Suck!
Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz and the rest of Fox Sports’ MLB studio show are going to be right in the thick of Red Sox Nation again. A Fox Sports spokesperson said Tuesday afternoon that the network will not move its set to a different location at Fenway Park, a day after a raucous postgame scene on Jersey Street in which fans serenaded Rodriguez with chants and taunts that occasionally led to the network cutting the audio of its program.
During last year's pandemic-shortened season, Plawecki lived with three other Red Sox players - Andrew Benintendi, Mitch Moreland and Kevin Pillar - and annoyed them by playing the song nonstop in the house. Plawecki said it really annoyed Moreland, so as a joke, he made it his walk-up song. Plawecki ended up having the best season of his young career, hitting .
Astros, Red Sox or tie, with ranges from 1 to 13-plus The Astros are making more contact than the Red Sox in this series. Boston’s pitchers have struck out 14 hitters through the first two games while Houston has struck out 22 hitters out of the 54 out that they’ve gotten. Prediction: Astros, 11 Which team will have the most hits and how many will they have?
George Bissell recaps the Red Sox' lopsided ALCS Game 2 victory and Austin Riley's heroics in the Braves' NLCS Game 1 win in Sunday's Daily Dose. (Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports)
J.D. Martinez and Rafael Devers helped the Red Sox have a grand old time in Houston. Boston became the first team to slug two grand slams in a postseason game, with Martinez and Devers connecting in the first two innings of a 9-5 win over the Astros on Saturday that tied their AL Championship Series at one game apiece. Martinez made it 4-0 with his opposite-field shot off rookie Luis García with two outs in the first.
Oct. 16—HOUSTON — When a lead slips away late, it's natural to blame the pitching for not holding on. Boston was up on Houston 3-1 going into the bottom of the sixth in Game 1 Friday night. The bullpen was lined up well to nail down the win before the Astros came back to win 5-4. If only Chris Sale had been sharper and lasted longer than eight outs, you might say. If only Tanner Houck hadn't ...
Ain’t it grand? The Boston Red Sox became the first team with two grand slams in a postseason game Saturday in Game 2 of the AL Championship Series against the Houston Astros. Perhaps as noteworthy: they only needed two innings to do it.
I’d be lying if I said it didn’t help me. I learned during my time in New York not to get caught up in any of it. When I got out of New York, it was a breath of fresh air going to Cleveland [in a January 2019 trade], obviously.
But fans watching the Astros host the Red Sox in Game 2 of the ALCS on Saturday had to wait nearly 15 minutes for the game to resume after it was stopped in the top of the second inning. The delay began when Astros manager Dusty Baker came out to the mound to take the ball from starter Luis Garcia. Jake Odorizzi came on in relief.
Barnes (like many relievers) hit a wall while trying to endure the jump from a 60- to 162-game season, lost his job as a closer, and then somehow saw his season continue to get worse. The first four to five months, I mean, I knew I could go out there and put 98 wherever I wanted, whenever I wanted with a breaking ball,” said Barnes.
Rafael Devers and J.D. Martinez helped the Red Sox do something no other MLB team had ever done in the postseason with their ALCS grand slams.
The Red Sox are now the first team in postseason history with multiple grand slams in a single game.
Red Sox designated hitter J.D. Martinez continued his postseason dominance Saturday with a first-inning grand slam against the Astros in Game 2 of the ALCS.
How will the ALCS play out? Our partners at Strat-O-Matic simulated the series and producedsome pretty interesting results, including a heartbreaking conclusion for Red Sox fans.
Definitely we’re in the conversation,” Bogaerts said, answering a question about he and Correa being the best in the AL at the position, via ASAP Sports. I feel like we’ve done it for a while now. We’ve been really consistent.
Alex Cora serves as the all-too-convenient tie that binds the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros as the teams head into Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Friday in Houston. Cora, after all, was the Astros' bench coach for their World Series title-winning team in 2017 and the RedSox's manager during their championship-winning season the following year. His involvement in the cheating scandal has been rehashed ad nauseam, and to his credit, he hasn't shied away from it.
Astros ace Lance McCullers Jr. has been left off the team's roster for the American League Championship Series against Boston, a huge blow to a team looking to advance to the World Series for the second time in three seasons. McCullers was great in a Game 1 win against the Chicago White Sox in the division series, pitching scoreless ball into the seventh. But the right-hander left Game 4 after four innings because of forearm tightness.
The Associated Press Bill Miller will be the umpire crew chief for the AL Championship Series that starts Friday night in Houston and Jerry Meals will lead the crew for the NL Championship Series. The Boston Red Sox visit the Astros for Game 1 of their best-of-seven matchup. The Los Angeles Dodgers play at Atlanta on Saturday night to open the NLCS.
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora was already counting on a rematch with his former team even before the Houston Astros advanced to their fifth straight AL Championship Series. “He told me (Monday), ‘see you soon,’” Houston star Carlos Correa said. The Astros assured their place the next day, closing out the White Sox i Game 4 of the Division Series.
The Boston Red Sox are rallying behind an improbable song for the 2021 MLB playoffs. Here's how their official postseason anthem came to be.
The Red Sox are certainly a major surprise to make it as far as they have, and that fact is clearly shown in the odds for the World Series from DraftKings Sportsbook. That said, there is another surprise on the list, and they actually have worse odds. That would be the Braves, who come in with slightly lower odds than Boston.
October Glance: Red Sox are back in playoffs for first time since winning 2018 World Series. They advanced to Division Series by beating rival New York Yankees 6-2 at home in AL wild-card game behind Eovaldi. Bogaerts and Kyle Schwarber hit early homers off Gerrit Cole at Fenway Park, and Alex Verdugo had three RBIs.
Mookie Betts got asked if Red Sox-Yankees or Dodgers-Giants was the better MLB rivalry Thanks to the infamous trade, Mookie Betts is one of the rare MLB players who can say they’ve experienced both Red Sox–Yankees and Dodgers–Giants rivalries in the high stakes of the postseason. After the Dodgers clinched the NLDS in a down-to-the-wire Game 5 in San Francisco, Betts was asked which rivalry was better.
Check out the official ALCS rosters for the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros ahead of Friday night's Game 1 at Minute Maid Park.
Boston Red Sox fans flocked to Fenway Park Thursday to see off the team as they left for Houston and the American League Championship Series against the Astros. Manager Alex Cora -- who's set to speak to the media Thursday afternoon, an availability that will be livestreamed on this page -- and pitcher Tanner Houck stopped to sign a few autographs on the way out. Game 1 is Friday night at Minute Maid Park.
When Kyle Schwarber was traded to the Boston Red Sox at Major League Baseball’s trade deadline, there were several questions about where he’d fit on the team. The Red Sox really weren’t in the market for an outfield or offensive help. They wanted to try him at first base — a position he never played — because of the struggling Bobby Dalbec.
The Boston Red Sox will start Chris Sale for Friday's ALCS Game 1 vs. the Houston Astros.
On Thursday, Meyers participated in the Astros’ workout at Minute Maid Park and was able to complete his normal routine including hitting, playing catch and uncorking a couple relay throws. While manager Dusty Baker said Meyers’ status for the series is still uncertain, Meyers said he felt good and hoped to play Friday in Game 1 at Minute Maid Park. That’s the goal, to try and help the team,” Meyers said.
So were you a Red Sox fan growing up? We were always taught that blood is thicker than water, and in our house that’s definitely true. Whoever paid the bills for us was who we were definitely pushing for.
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