To Rookies, Red Sox Are a Championship Team
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In the refreshing worlds of the rookies Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury, the Red Sox are recent champions, not some cursed franchise.
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David Murphy settled into his makeshift locker at the front of the Red Sox clubhouse yesterday. Wrapped around a pole, it was sturdy enough, but really, kindergartners get better.
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Win a win over the Colorado Rockies, the Boston Red Sox become the first team to win multiple championships since 2000.
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The Red Sox beat the Cardinals, 3-0, in Game 4 to win their first World Series since 1918.
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It was 10 years ago that another Red Sox rookie, who had been hitting in the ninth spot all spring, was promoted by manager Jimy Williams to the leadoff spot on Opening Day. That move worked out pretty well, both for Nomar Garciaparra , who was elected the American League's Rookie of the Year, and the Sox.
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ANAHEIM, California The Boston Red Sox opened the playoffs with a new nickname, a new Game 1 starter and a welcome new association with the number seven.
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BOSTON - The fans wanted it. For that matter the entire baseball world wanted it. Now it&#39;s here, and nobody is champing at the bit more than the Boston Red Sox.
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The first Red Sox World Series victory in 86 years could change the identity of the city.
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Omigawd, what a ballgame, what a glorious night at Fenway, what a way to enter the World Series. The Red Sox came back from (yet another) 3-1 series deficit, which is becoming routine for them.
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_ After helping the Boston Red Sox win their first title in 86 years, Pedro Martinez will try to lead the New York Mets to their first championship since 1986.
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Barry Bonds is 742 homers ahead of Dustin Pedroia on the all-time list, but the diminutive Red Sox rookie can make a claim that the would-be home run king can't: He's homered at Fenway Park.
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Daisuke Matsuzaka smiled at some questions, grew pensive about others and responded with a mixture of diplomacy and directness. In his first spring training news conference Thursday, Boston's $103 million pitcher said he would remain humble as a rookie, apologize to Red Sox teammates if the media crush annoyed them and has had no problems adjusting to his new country.
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A minute that used to recur like a comet, once 86 years or so and missed by generations of Red Sox fans, is now beginning to feel like a birthright. For the second time in four seasons, the Red Sox are World Series champions.
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"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Stopper." That's the tune citizens of Red Sox Nation could have been humming after Curt Schilling's two innings in the inaugural game of the 2007 spring training season last night.
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If the Red Sox make it to the World Series, the first two games will be played in Fenway Park.
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Orlando Cabrera helped the Red Sox win their first World Series title since 1918, but his stay in Boston turned out to be brief.
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If there's a lesson the Red Sox can take from their 11-9 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals last night in Game 1 of the World Series, it's probably this: