Red Sox refuse to give up
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BOSTON - Patiently, David Ortiz fouled off the best fastballs and sliders Esteban Loaiza could throw. Through a 10-pitch at-bat, he refused to cave in, refused to let this series, this season die.
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The Boston Red Sox have evened the American League Championship Series at three games apiece by beating the New York Yankees 4-to-2 in game six.
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Red Sox Nation had a muster last night at Fenway Park, priming the pump of its seemingly bottomless support for a team that will begin the playoffs today in search of a World Series championship that has eluded the city since the end of World War I.
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These Boston Red Sox aren&#39;t worried about what happened in New York last year because they think they&#39;re better than the team that lost to the Yankees in the 2003 American League Championship Series.
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Johnny Pesky is still holding on. He's holding on to a baseball career in its seventh decade and to the affection of Red Sox fans who once blamed him for Boston's loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1946 World Series.
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Boston couldn&#39;t be more confident heading back to Fenway Park, looking to close out the once-hot Angels. By MARC TOPKIN, Times Staff Writer.
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By the end of yesterday's game, with pitching changes and defensive replacements dragging the pace down, it had become closer in appearance to Pawtucket-Scranton than Boston-New York. It was a game - won by the Red Sox, 10-1 - that had tested and tried the patience of even the purist of baseball fans. It had made you long for the ...
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The Red Sox and Japan - two baseball loving nations - are standing by as Boston attempts to beat the deadline for signing pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka.
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The Boston Red Sox are gaining ground on the New York Yankees in the AL East, and they're brimming with confidence.   "I think we can beat any team right now," outfielder Johnny Damon said after the Red Sox beat Detroit 6-1 on Sunday for their sixth straight victory...
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The New Orleans Saints refuse to give up on their season.
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NEW YORK -- He has risen from the ashes, much like his baseball team, from the depths of a seemingly lost and bitterly disappointing season to the indescribable elation of an improbable, yet brilliant comeback. The Boston Red Sox, once down, 3-0, in the American League Championship Series, orchestrated the biggest turnaround in baseball history by beating the New York ...
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Jacoby Ellsbury has shown the Red Sox and the city of Boston what he can do, and he looks like a player who refuses to budge from the lineup.
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The baseball gods have a heart, and it showed Monday in the Boston Red Sox&#39;s 14-inning, 5-4 victory against the New York Yankees that extended their American League Championship
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The Boston Red Sox have paraded on the streets and in the water in front of legions of fans who have been waiting 86 years for their team to break a supposed curse and win baseball&#39;s World Series.
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The Red Sox are trying to keep up their momentum tonight at Fenway Park in Game Two of the World Series. Boston scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning.
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Because so many members of Red Sox Nation are expected in Boston to celebrate the team's World Series triumph, the victory parade Saturday won't be making any stops and won't culminate with a staged rally, either.
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A comeback win kept the Boston Red Sox in first place. Staying there could be tougher if Tim Wakefield is sidelined.