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  • And we’re done

    Just like last year, we close the books on the 2015 Red Sox season with The Green Fields of the Mind, by the late baseball commissioner, Yale professor, and diehard Red Sox fan, Bart Giamatti.

  • Sox make shutout history

    It has been a long time since the Red Sox shutout a single club in three straight games. The surprising Red Sox, still in the cellar of the division, blanked the Orioles in three consecutive games this past weekend for…

  • Orsillo bursts Red Sox bubble

    The last home game of 2015, the last such game for longtime announcer Don Orsillo, also brings about some realizations about the Red Sox themselves. As recounted in August, when the news first broke, none of the changes the Sox…

  • Shutout history

    The Red Sox shutout the Orioles Friday and Saturday, 7-0 and 8-0, respectively, in the first two games of Boston’s final 2015 home series. It was the first back-to-back shutouts of the Orioles by the Red Sox at Fenway since…

  • Tribute: Yogi Berra

    You won’t find a salute to very many Yankees on these pages, but then, this was someone very special. One of baseball’s great ambassadors, Hall of Famer Yogi Berra, has died. Known to generations of fans for both his on-field work…

  • Bogaerts slams Rays

    The 98th grand slam of the baseball season, the most recent one, came off the bat of Red Sox Xander Bogaerts Monday night, as the Red Sox faced off against the Rays in the opening game of Boston’s last homestand of…

  • Sox stun Jays with Late Win

    The Red Sox did something today they haven’t done all season: they came back to win after trailing in a game after 8 innings. In what passes for good news these days, the Sox are now 1-65 when heading to the…

  • Pedro Got Papi to Red Sox

    Some real “inside baseball,” now. It’s the story of how Pedro Martinez, already a Red Sox legend on the field, greatly impacted Red Sox history off the field, too. With 500 career home runs under his belt now (442 coming as a Red Sox batter),…