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Xander Bogaerts is off to a really great start for the Boston Red Sox. Bogaerts has played 42 games this season, and home runs have been completely absent. It was the third inning of Boston’s game against the Texas Rangers, and Bogaerts came to the plate to face Nick Martinez with a runner on first. Continue to Article

May 26, 2017 10:35:am EST

By the end of his Major League Baseball career, David Ortiz had three World Series championships to his name and was earning roughly $17 million a year. Now, he’s looking to have the same success in retirement. Ortiz, better known as “Big Papi,” closed out his baseball career last season at the age of 40. Continue to Article

May 26, 2017 7:55:am EST

Prior to Thursday, you could count the amount of times a team notched 20 strikeouts in a single game on one hand. Unless you’re Antonio Alfonseca or the guy from “The Princess Bride,” that’s no longer possible thanks to the Boston Red Sox and some bad umpiring. Entering the ninth inning, the Red Sox sat four strikeouts away from tying the record. It’s only happened 72 in the history of baseball and almost always involves a dropped third strike. Continue to Article

May 26, 2017 12:44:am EST

New York’s mistake helped the Red Sox, and they weren’t playing the Yankees. The Red Sox struck out 20 in a game for the third time in franchise history on Thursday night, and they were able to do so only after MLB’s replay team — based in Manhattan — gave Craig Kimbrel an extra batter to strike out in the ninth inning. A 6-2 win over the Rangers featured 16 strikeouts for Red Sox pitching heading into the top of the ninth at Fenway Park. Kimbrel came on for a non-save situation because he had five days off previously. There’s always that outside chance for a four-strikeout inning, and it happened. Even for a four-strikeout inning, however, this was bizarre. The first batter, lefthanded hitting Continue to Article

May 26, 2017 12:30:am EST

A sloppy, cold night at Fenway Park led to an early exit for Dustin Pedroia, who was pulled because of left knee pain. The Red Sox said the move was precautionary and that Pedroia is day to day. The press-box announcement included the note that manager John Farrell removed Pedroia, which is not typically information provided in-game, but was perhaps an attempt to reinforce that Pedroia did not want to exit the game. Pedroia had surgery on that knee in October. It's the same leg that was hurt when Manny Machado slid into Pedroia at second base in April, the slide that sparked the plunking war between the Orioles and Red Sox. Pedroia led off the third inning Thursday night against the Rangers' Continue to Article

May 25, 2017 11:35:pm EST