Thursday night’s first base umpire in Anaheim, C.B. Bucknor, can expect a vintage New England greeting when he is introduced before Game 3 at Fenway Park on Sunday. Having turned in a wretched performance in Game 1- replays on high-def TV gave him two clearly blown calls - Bucknor lived up to his reputation as [...]

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 [...]

While still annoyed that Major League Baseball disciplined him at all, Josh Beckett accepted a deduction of one game from his six-game suspension and began serving his time Sunday, setting him up to work on Saturday afternoon at Fenway against the Yankees.
Beckett was suspended for his role in last Sunday’s fracas at Anaheim, though he [...]

Completely thumbing his nose at the umpiring crew who worked Sunday’s game at Anaheim, Major League Baseball vice president for discipline Bob Watson hit Josh Beckett with a six-game suspension, slapped the Angels’ collective wrists and called it a day. Apparently, Watson saw something in the video tape of Beckett’s encounter with Bobby Abreu that [...]

Well, there was an upsisde to Sunday afternoon’s game in lovely Souther California – Josh Beckett hasn’t lost his swagger. And Bobby Abreu won’t be stepping out of the box midway through Beckett’s windup again any time soon.
But if it seems as though the Red Sox 2008 playoff season has morphed into the 2009 regular [...]

The game tonight in Anaheim between the Angels and the Athletics has been postponed at the direction of Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, who conferred with Los Angeles owner Arte Moreno after learning of Kick Adenhart’s death in an auto accident early Thursday morning.
Adenhart, 22, had made his fourth big-league start, pitching six scoreless innings [...]