BOSTON (AP) — George Springer hit a three-run home run – his second of the day – to cap a five-run fifth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays took a two-game lead over struggling Boston with a 7-3 win Monday night and handed the Red Sox their fifth straight loss. In the afternoon’s first game, […]
The Red Sox have chosen to open the second game of Monday’s doubleheader and announced that right-hander Zack Kelly will start the second game. Kelly has made two starts as an opener this season and is 5-2 overall with a 2.74 ERA this year. He will most likely pitch an inning or two, and after […]
BOSTON – Under sunny skies, 112-year-old Fenway Park witnessed another piece of history Monday afternoon. Danny Jansen was at bat for the Toronto Blue Jays against the Boston Red Sox on June 26, with the score at 0-1 and base one on, when the skies opened and the game was suspended due to severe weather. […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pat Kelly, manager of Triple-A Louisville, occasionally likes to joke a little about the fact that he gets to tell one of his players that he is moving up to the major leagues. And Kelly did his best on short notice on Friday night when, after a postgame fireworks display on the […]
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen is enjoying his strange piece of baseball history and preparing to become the first major league player to play for both teams in the same game. Jansen was on the Toronto Blue Jays squad when they met Boston on June 26a game that was interrupted due […]
In recent weeks, all eyes have been on Liam Hendriks, an experienced reliever who is pushing for his comeback after Tommy John surgery and wants to be on the mound for the first time in a Boston Red Sox jersey towards the end of the season. But the Red Sox have another pitcher who is […]
Danny Jansen will make Major League Baseball history on Monday at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays will resume a rain-suspended game from June 26. It will be the first game of a doubleheader on Monday. In June, Jansen, then playing for the Blue Jays, was at bat with one out […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s Justin Verlander is scheduled to come off the injured list and start the finale of a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday. “It’s great to have JV on the mound. We have one of the best back,” manager Joe Espada said. “We know what he means. We know […]
A piece of MLB history could be at stake next Monday when the Red Sox and Blue finish a game that began on June 26 and had to be suspended due to weather. The fact that a game has to be restarted because of the weather is nothing earth-shattering, but the possibility of Danny Jansen […]
Something went very wrong with NESN’s over-the-top streaming product NESN 360 on Sunday. It happened during the Boston Red Sox’s matchup with the Baltimore Orioles, with Kutter Crawford starting for Boston and Albert Suárez starting for Baltimore. But during the seventh inning of that game, with the Orioles leading 4-0 and Red Sox relief pitcher […]
