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David Price Hits Two, Stays In Game As Most Of Boston Is Ejected
The Red Sox and Rays cleared the benches last night which, by itself, is barely worth mentioning but then someone put a microphone in front of David Ortiz's face after the game. Ortiz was not very happy with Tampa's ace David Price, who plunked him with the very first pitch Ortiz saw since hitting t...
Johnny Damon Gets Payback, Cuts Off Manny Ramirez's First Pitch
The Boston Red Sox held a 10th-anniversary reunion for players from the 2004 championship team before tonight's game. New Iowa Cubs player-coach Manny Ramirez tossed out the first pitch, until Johnny Damon came out of nowhere to snag it for justice, ten years later....
Benches Clear In Red Sox-Rays When Yunel Escobar Steals Third
After the Rays built a five-run lead in the bottom of the seventh inning, Yunel Escobar stole third base. A couple of Red Sox players saw that as disrespectful, and it wasn't long before benches cleared and players pushed each other around....
Fan At Fenway Catches Ground-Rule Double In The Most Casual Way
One fan in a Hartford Whalers T-shirt didn't do anything but close his hand to earn a game ball from Tuesday night's Blue Jays-Red Sox game....
Edwin Encarnacion Hit The Crap Out Of A Baseball
See that big white billboard? That thing is on the top of a building that sits across the street from Fenway Park, on the other side of the green monster. Last night, Blue Jays slugger Edwin Encarnacion nailed that billboard with a home run ball....
Jackie Bradley, Jr. Now Has A Glorious Afro
Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley, Jr. undid his braids, and now he's got a fantastic afro....
Thank God For David Ortiz
Yu Darvish was perfect through the seventh inning against the Red Sox last night until David Ortiz hit a routine pop-up into shallow right field. It fell between Alex Rios and Rougned Odor and was officially ruled an error, thus preserving a no-hitter. For two innings the baseball world sat on the p...
Yankee Fan Wins $1.5M After City Wouldn't Let Him Open "Buck Foston" Bar
In a major ruling for freedom of spoonerisms, a bar owner has won a lawsuit against the city of New Brunswick, N.J., which in 2011 denied him a liquor license for his proposed new bar, "Buck Foston's Road House." ...
Awful Man Snatches Souvenir Baseball Away From Little Kid
Perhaps there will come a day when adults will stop stealing baseballs away from kids, but this is not that day. This dude right here is shameless, and has obviously never consulted this handy chart. Behavior like this is only acceptable if you are stealing a ball from this awful Australian kid....
Michael Pineda Again Isn't Discreet About His Pine Tar, Gets Ejected
The last time Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda faced the Red Sox—on April 10—he clearly had pine tar on his hand. No one on the Red Sox brought it up, and the Yankees won. Tonight, Pineda again used pine tar, slapping on his neck before the second inning. Red Sox manager John Farrell spoke up this tim...
Here Comes The Pizza...Forever
April 16, 2007, the greatest moment that has ever—or could ever—grace the Red Sox's annual Patriots' Day morning game. If you haven't seen the entire Pizza Affair before, rectify that now. And if you have, let's give thanks for this perfect moment of baseball history....
Who's A Good Dog? Mike Napoli's A Good Dog.
Filed to: baseball players are tremendous weirdos. ...
This Looks Painful
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Drunk Red Sox Fan Heckles Yankee Fans, Speaks In Tongues
This very confused young man, who seems to think that Dez Bryant has something to do with the Boston Red Sox and that people can actually understand the words that are coming out of his mouth, was spotted at Sunday's game between the Red Sox and Yankees. He probably had too much to drink....
Is MLB Replay Just Making Things More Complicated?
"It's extremely difficult to have any faith in the process that's being used," Red Sox manager John Farrell said of MLB's new replay review procedure, which went against Boston on consecutive days. "On the heels of yesterday, it's hard to have any faith in the system."...
Michael Pineda Was Cheating And No One Cares
"It's just dirt, nothing to see here" was Michael Pineda's general reaction to being accused of glopping up the heel of his hand with some unknown substance in a strong pitching performance against Boston last night. It clearly wasn't dirt. But was it cheating? That depends on whether you listen to ...
Michael Pineda's Not Being Discreet About The Pine Tar On His Hand
Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda doesn't seem to be hiding the visible splotch of stuff on his throwing hand. It appears to be pine tar, as NESN color commentator Jerry Remy noted. (Remy wasn't happy.)...
David Ortiz Goes On Slowest Home Run Trot On Record
Thanks to our friends at Tater Trot Tracker, who have been timing home run trots for years now, we know that nobody takes his time getting around the bases quite like David Ortiz does....