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Domonic Brown hit an RBI single with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Washington Nationals 5-4 on Monday night.

Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Jr. said Friday he had "no desire" to trade Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels or Jonathan Papelbon.

For baseball fans, nothing is more heartbreaking, more infuriating than a blown save. Your team spends the better part of an afternoon or evening mounting rallies, pushing all the right buttons, getting out of jams, and building a lead. Your closer t...

TAUNTON, Mass. - St. Mary's coach Colleen Newbury looks through Red Sox Nation glasses when viewing the relationship between pitchers Brooke L'Abbe and Mia Nowicki. "She's like our [Jonathan] Papelbon," Newbury said Wednesday after the Spartans ed...

Domonic Brown homered, tripled and drove in four runs to back up the effective pitching of Cliff Lee and the Philadelphia Phillies held on for a 7-5 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.

We're nearly two months into the season, and now is a perfect time to look closer at your closers to see if they're doing the job you expect from them. Saves and stolen bases are the easiest categories to move up in for fantasy owners after two month...

Blog | May 31, 2013

PHILADELPHIA -- Takeaways from a night on which Jacoby Ellsbury went home with a new record and a souvenir to commemorate it, Franklin Morales stuck his first win in his back pocket and the Boston Red Sox headed up the Jersey Turnpike to face the sud...

PHILADELPHIA -- Takeaways from another low-scoring loss to the Phillies: * Even on a night when game-time temperatures were 88 degrees, being on the other side of a flamboyant Jonathan Papelbon fist pump is a little like having someone rub your fa...

In case you were busy making more than $1,244 a week from home using one simple trick, here's what you missed in sports on Tuesday: Things are getting interesting in the Eastern Conference finals as the Indiana Pacers took Game 4 from the Miami ...

Jonathan Papelbon wasn't the least bit fazed by his return to Fenway Park.

Cliff Lee pitched eight innings of four-hit ball and Jonathan Papelbon earned his first save at Fenway Park as a Red Sox opponent Tuesday night, leading the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-1 victory over Boston.

BOSTON -- With Jonathan Papelbon returning to Fenway Park for the first time since leaving Boston for the Philadelphia Phillies, a number of questions percolated around his old stomping grounds: If Papelbon were to come out of the visitors' bullpe...

BOSTON -- Some quick hits from Fenway Park, while waiting for Jonathan Papelbon to pop out of the Phillies clubhouse to renew acquaintances: * Clay Buchholz did some light throwing Monday, and manager John Farrell reiterated it should only be a co...

Keith Law redrafts the 2003 draft with the benefit of hindsight, to see how different it would look.

Story | Conversation | May 17, 2013

When it was announced over the weekend that Joel Hanrahan would need surgery and miss the rest of the 2013 season, it was another misstep in the Boston Red Sox's efforts to replace the departed Jonathan Papelbon. Boston has both spent money and trade...

Whether it's hitting a game-winning homer off Jonathan Papelbon, getting hit in the groin by a Justin Verlander fastball while not wearing a cup, or getting blamed for Daniel Murphy's baserunning blunder, Jordany Valdespin is always in the middle of ...