Terry Francona

Welcome to the postseason, where baseball hardly resembles what has been played for six months to get here. Runs are harder to come by, but not off days. Pitching is more important than ever, but paradoxically you...

On Monday evening, Red Sox slugger David Ortiz stood in the visitor's dugout at new Yankee Stadium wearing short sleeves and a big smile, seemingly oblivious to both the cold rain that had cancelled batting practice...

1) All quiet on the Red Sox front. The home clubhouse at the Red Sox's City of Palms Park has been an unusually quiet place so far this spring, due largely to the World Baseball Classic. An MLB-high 15 members of the...

1. Boston closer Jonathan Papelbon picked up six huge outs in ALCS Game 5 to give his team a chance to rally, even if those outs followed a double by red-hot B.J. Upton that scored two runners he inherited. It took...

It had to come to this, the league's two best teams from the league's strongest division. The Rays as a representation of all that can be right about an organization on the way up, the Red Sox as a representation of...