They remain the No. 2 team in Los Angeles - or would someone care to debate the reality that LA is more the City of Dodgers than the City of Angeles? Still, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Calif. have helped inspire talk of a World Series the rest of the country might dismiss with [...]

Though the clinching’s circumstances merit such a disclaimer, don’t tell anyone from the Red Sox that they backed into the American League wild-card berth. Yes, they’ve lost five straight games, and yes, players left Fenway Park after Tuesday night’s 8-7 loss to Toronto and then returned to celebrate the Angels’ 5-2 win over Texas in [...]

Realistically speaking, the American League playoff roster is pretty well set. Barring unexpectedly dramatic swoons or charges, the Yankees will win the East, the Tigers will win the Central, the Angels will win the West, and the Red Sox will be the wild-card entry for the six time since the current post-season arrangement was implemented.
Boston [...]

Remember all of the reports in the last 24 hours claiming that the Red Sox-Mets deal to bring reliever Billy Wagner had reached an impasse? Forget them all. The Red Sox announced today that the veteran lefty will be coming to Boston in exchange for two players to be named later.
Red Sox manager Terry Francona [...]

A 162-game season can often read like a six-month baseball-hued soap opera when the storylines shift gears from one day to the next. After Friday night’s 20-11 Yankees win, arguably the ugliest Red Sox home performance since Game 3 of the 2004 American League Championship Series, Brad Penny’s bleak future served as the main talking [...]

For those who refuse to accept the notion that the Yankees have disappeared over the American League East’s horizon, this weekend represents a chance for the Red Sox to stay alive in the division race.
For those who have pretty much conceded the division crown to The Empire, this weekend represents a chance to put a [...]

Daisuke Matsuzaka apparently unloaded his frustrations over what so far has been a lost season to a Japanese reporter, blaming the Red Sox for failing to respect the conditioning program he used while throwing in Japan.
Matsuzaka has been on the disabled list for most of the season and was largely ineffective in his eight starts, going [...]

Since the Red Sox have begun the post-All Star Break with two losses in three games, scoring a total of three runs in the two losses, it is fair to assume that Jitters Now Grip Hub. Those jitters are exacerbated by the fact that the The Empire opened with a sweep of the truly hitting-challenged [...]

For anyone who is intrigued to the point of distraction by Roy Halladay’s presence on the showroom floor, an update on the grapevine:
Not surprisingly, the Red Sox have not made a pitch for the Blue Jays ace, as reported by the Globe’s Nick Cafardo. Fantasy leaguers who double as Red Sox fans may drool at [...]

New Yorkers pride themselves on their allegedly superior sophistication in all things, including baseball. But the next time someone makes that claim, point them to the poll on the Daily News website posing the silly question, “Is this a must-win series for the Yankees in Boston?”
The choices: “Yes, they need at least two wins” and [...]