Baseball: Red Sox must juggle lineup as Series shifts to Cardinals ...
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ST. LOUIS, United States : Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz typically plays as a designated hitter, but the Dominican dynamo must now take a fielding role as the 100th World Series shifts here for game three Tuesday.
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The playoff-bound Red Sox are home tonight to start the final six games of the regular season, and manager Terry Francona continues to straddle the line between playing for the division title (and the best record in the league) and getting his team ready for the postseason.
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The Red Sox manager pieced together another makeshift lineup last night at Fenway Park, in a game that no longer has significant ramifications for his team.
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Fenway Park was soaked from rain by game time Friday night, making it no surprise that Game 3 of the AL championship series would not be played as scheduled. Then the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox had to deal with the fallout. With the rainout, the schedule was pushed back a day, but both teams said they would stay with their scheduled starters for Games 3 and 4.
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Going into game six of the American League Championship Series on Saturday, the Red Sox, fresh off a victory, are acting a lot looser.
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The offenses of the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox will no doubt keep scoreboard operators busy at Fenway Park for the first two games of the World Series.
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Boston Red Sox&#39; Jason Varitek, right, and St. Louis Cardinals starter Matt Morris watch the flight of Varitek&#39;s triple in the first inning of game two of the World Series in Boston, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004.
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ANAHEIM -- While the Red Sox remain focused on trying to keep Pedro Martinez in a Boston uniform, they are on the verge of adding another key rotation member.
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The Boston Red Sox have looked at the postseason from both sides now. Their next task will be to prevent the other guys from joining them in the epic comeback category.
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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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It's a relatively recent story, and a familiar one. The Red Sox had two big sluggers in the middle of their lineup -- one a lefthanded hitter, the other a righty, both .300 hitters, one a former MVP, one who would soon be named one. They were the linchpins of a Sox team that had high hopes of playing deep ...
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Josh Beckett carries Boston Red  Sox World Series hopes to the mound on Thursday for a must-win  Game Five against the Cleveland Indians and they could not be  in safer hands.
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Then again, no team had ever come back from an 0-3 series deficit in the playoffs, either. The Boston Red Sox will try for a 3-0 lead in the World Series when it shifts to St.
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Though the Red Sox still don&#39;t know who they will be playing in the postseason, manager Terry Francona&#39;s pitching rotation is starting to come into focus.
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Description: The Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals face off Saturday in the first game of the World Series. It&#39;s a home game for the Sox at storied Fenway Park.
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And now the World Series shifts to St. Louis and Busch Stadium. The Red Sox will find it an odd site for baseball in that no one will be yelling &quot;You Suck!
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Here comes the tricky part. By stunning the Cardinals in the first two games of the World Series, the Red Sox showed the rest of the baseball world what American Leaguers already knew: They are one mighty tough team at Fenway Park.