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Shane Victorino is out of the lineup for the second consecutive day after hurting his back while running into the wall making a catch Thursday night against the Rays. Jonny Gomes, whose sacrifice fly in the 10th inning Friday provided the winning ...

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MINNEAPOLIS -- Before Friday night, Will Middlebrooks hadn't attempted a sacrifice bunt since 2008, when he was a 19-year-old in his first season of professional baseball at Single-A Lowell. But there the big third baseman was in the 10th inning a...

MINNEAPOLIS -- When the Red Sox last played the Minnesota Twins, they lost three of four at Fenway Park and slipped back into a tie for first place for the first time in a month. They haven't been back atop the AL East since then, and they will have ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- For the second time in a week, Shane Victorino is feeling the effects of an ill-fated run-in with an outfield wall. Victorino's sore back kept him from playing in Friday's series opener with the Minnesota Twins after he had crashed...

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Jonny Gomes hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to another comeback victory, 3-2 over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.

Athletics left-hander Brett Anderson could miss up to six weeks after he was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his right foot.

In this week's edition of "State of the Nation," Gordon Edes looks at Thursday's ninth-inning win over the Rays and Daniel Bard's continuing struggles in the minors....

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Fernando Rodney celebrates a save, and Tampa Bay victory, by pretending to launch an arrow into the heavens. But how do you simulate being hoist by your own petard, which was Shakespeare's fancy way of describing a 16th-cen...

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Boston Red Sox reliever Joel Hanrahan underwent Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery Thursday, the team announced Thursday. Dr. James Andrews, who performed the surgery, repaired the ulnar collateral ligament in Hanrahan...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A major league scout who was here Thursday night said he was very close to pitcher Steve Blass, the former Pirate who mysteriously lost his ability to throw a baseball over the plate and was out of baseball within two years of...

Will Middlebrooks had a three-run double off closer Fernando Rodney with two outs in the ninth inning that lifted the Boston Red Sox past the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 on Thursday night.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Red Sox reliever Andrew Bailey, who had just been named the team's closer over Joel Hanrahan when he went on the disabled list with a strained right biceps, is on track to be activated Monday in Chicago, manager John Farrell s...

Red Sox reliever Joel Hanrahan underwent Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery Thursday, one of his agents reported.