Red Sox hit all the right notes
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This may be as close as it comes to a harmonic convergence on Yawkey Way, on a day that hardly could have been sweeter for the Red Sox even if Julian Tavarez -- a man who just lost his starting job -- hadn't happily sprayed his expensive Parisian cologne around the clubhouse as if it were drugstore air freshener.
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This was where the turnaround was supposed to happen, where whose rules you went by was going to make a difference. After playing with a designated hitter in their Fenway playpen, the Red Sox were going to have to play baseball the way that Abner Doubleday imagined it.
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The waiting is over. All season long, Red Sox Nation has been waiting for its team to live up to its potential, leave behind its mediocrity and reel off a lengthy winning streak.
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Curt Schilling hasn&#39;t felt this good in months, and that&#39;s great news for the Boston Red Sox. Schilling earned his 16th win, and David Ortiz homered twice and drove in four runs
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Almost two months after defying the Curse of the Bambino and only one day after saying goodbye to Pedro MartÃ­nez, the Boston Red Sox kept moving on yesterday by welcoming the living embodiment
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BOSTON - The Red Sox ended their home season in typical fashion with another brilliant performance by Curt Schilling and another benches-clearing confrontation with the Yankees.
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Even David Ortiz was amazed by this home run &#151; a 514-foot shot that hit the lights down the right-field line. "I knew when I hit it that I got all of it," the Boston Red Sox slugger said after the major league All-Stars beat the Japanese stars 5-3 Saturday night in Game 2 of their series. "I thought for a second that it might land in the Dominican (Republic)."
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The season is nearly two months old and already the White Sox have played like defending World Series champions. They have an improved offense with Jim Thome and a starting staff that is still one of the best in the majors.
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The Red Sox couldn&#39;t have scripted a better ending to a pivotal homestand than what transpired Sunday at Fenway Park. David Ortiz homered, doubled and scored
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These idiots can play after all. After winning two error-filled games in spite of themselves, the Boston Red Sox improved their defense and won pretty, for a change, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 4-1 to move within one victory of their first World Series title since 1918.
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Red Sox 11, Athletics 6. Seventeen Boston hits. Fun for all on a nice, hot, late September evening. The magic number is down to 2. It could all be over tonight.
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If anything, unprecedented good fortune appears to be smiling on the Boston Red Sox who have fumbled and stumbled their way to a 2-0 World Series lead over the St.
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Just play. Just have fun. That is what Manny Ramirez has done in leading the resurgent Red Sox within whispering distance of the Yankees.
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Pucker up, New Englanders. Soaked in champagne and grateful for one player as much as any other, Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino said of David Ortiz after the club clinched its 11th American League pennant, &quot;He has such big shoulders and he carries this team on the field and off the field. We're extraordinarily fortunate, ...
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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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David Ortiz drove in three runs,  including the game winner in the bottom of the 14th inning, to  lead Boston to a rallying 5-4 victory over the New York Yankees  which kept the Red Sox's postseason hopes alive Monday.
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What they continue to demonstrate, more than anything else, is an impeccable sense of timing. When to run. When to hit. When to start playing like a tried-and-true