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BALTIMORE -- The Red Sox find themselves temporarily short of first basemen, with Mike Napoli having returned early to Boston to determine the cause of dizziness and grogginess and Mike Carp leaving Sunday's 6-3 loss to the Orioles in the seventh inn...

BALTIMORE -- A few takeaways from the Boston Red Sox's 5-4 win in Camden Yards, a.k.a. the House That Lucchino Built, although we suspect a few Baltimore Orioles fans would beg to differ and say that if Babe Ruth gets credit for Yankee Stadium, Cal R...

The off-again, on-again status of Clay Buchholz's next start is off again, and Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell acknowledged the team may place the right-hander on the disabled list with ongoing discomfort in his trapezius muscle in his neck area.

BALTIMORE -- What in the name of William Nathaniel Showalter is going on here? Son of a Buck, those are the Baltimore Orioles closing in fast on the Red Sox, who mathematically face the possibility of looking up at Showalter's O's in the American ...

BALTIMORE -- Quick hits on a perfect night for baseball (79 degrees, no humidity) in The House That Lucchino Built: * Mike Napoli, who came out of Thursday's game in the bottom of the third inning, remains ill and was unavailable for Friday night'...

NEW YORK -- One night later, it went unnoticed that Jacoby Ellsbury was absent for a second straight game. While Mike Napoli's third-inning grand slam was the night's master stroke, Boston's patchwork outfield of two supposed retreads and a rookie...

BOSTON -- Mike Napoli hit his home run over the Red Sox bullpen. Dustin Pedroia hit his just inside the Pesky Pole. The difference between the drives was just more than 30 yards, the length of a downfield Tom Brady pass: 324 feet for Pedroia, 416 fee...

Jon Lester learned the hard way that "you've got to fail in order to succeed."

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- White ball, white roof, look out below. It's an occupational hazard of playing in Tropicana Field, and it was a topic, David Ortiz said, that came up during the team's pregame meeting held to go over their scouting report o...

BOSTON -- Red Sox manager John Farrell said medical tests showed no rib fracture for Will Middlebrooks in the aftermath of Tuesday night's collision with catcher David Ross. Farrell, speaking on radio station WEEI with Michael Holley and Mike Salk...

BOSTON -- Greetings from the Edes cave (the Sox went to Texas unaccompanied), where we know whose bleeping city we're living in but had little clue that this was Mike Carp's world and we're lucky to be inhabiting it. While David Ortiz, as is his c...

TORONTO -- Red Sox first baseman Mike Napoli hit the longest home run of his career Wednesday night, a 472-foot drive to dead center field, then followed that three innings later with another tape-measure job, 467 feet into the third deck, with two r...

The past two times the Sox sported MLB's best April record? 2004 and 2007.

BOSTON -- The name gave Mike Napoli pause. "Hack Wilson?" he repeated. "Sounds familiar." But no, he said, he couldn't place it. "190 RBIs," a visitor said. "Hack Wilson drove in 190 runs in 1930. The major-league record." "No, no, no,...

BOSTON -- How cold was it in the Fens Monday night? So cold that when David Ortiz spat into his batting gloves and clapped, the Red Sox batboy had to come to the plate with an ice pick so he could separate his hands. How hot was Mike Napoli Mon...

CLEVELAND -- Boston Red Sox first baseman Mike Napoli lives in an apartment complex in Copley Square, the same place in which former manager Bobby Valentine lived last season, and a short walk from the site of Monday's explosions at the finish line o...