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Red Sox Lefty Chris Sale Goes on IL for 6th Season in a Row
The Red Sox placed left-hander Chris Sale on the injured list with shoulder inflammation on Friday, another setback for the seven-time All-Star as he attempts to re-establish himself as a reliable member of the rotation. “It’s just kind of a gut punch,” Sale told reporters before Friday night’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays. “I hate feeling like this....
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Red Sox Fall to Orioles on Opening Day
John Means pitched seven innings of one-hit ball, allowing a single to lead off the game and retiring the last 18 batters he faced on Friday to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 3-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox in their rain-delayed opener. Means struck out five and allowed just two baserunners — the other on an error —…
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Celtics Beat Bucks 122-121 in Opener
Jayson Tatum banked in a fallaway, go-ahead 3-pointer in the final second, and Giannis Antetokounmpo missed the potential tying free throw with 0.4 seconds left, allowing the Boston Celtics to escape with a 122-121 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night in the teams’ season opener. Tatum scored 30 points and Jaylen Brown had 33 for Boston, which entered…
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Celtics Pick Vanderbilt Guard Aaron Nesmith 14th in NBA Draft
The Boston Celtics loaded up on backcourt depth in the NBA draft on Wednesday night, picking Vanderbilt shooting guard Aaron Nesmith and Oregon point guard Payton Pritchard in the first round. The Celtics used the No. 14 pick on Nesmith, a 6-foot-6, 215-pound sophomore who was averaging 23 points and shooting 51% before a foot injury ended his season 14…
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Ron Roenicke Not Returning as Red Sox Manager Next Season
Ron Roenicke waited five years after his previous managerial job for another opportunity. When it finally came, it wasn’t much of an opportunity at all. The Red Sox told Roenicke before the final game of the season on Sunday that he will not be back in 2021, ending his tenure as a one-year, shotgun stopgap for a pandemic-shortened season with…
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Bruins' Rask Opts Out of NHL Postseason
In a stunning move, Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask has opted out of the remainder of the NHL’s postseason. The defending Eastern Conference champions announced the decision Saturday morning, less than two hours before the team’s third game in its Eastern Conference Quarterfinals series against the Carolina Hurricanes. “I want to be with my teammates competing, but at this...
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Chris Sale Rehabbing the Best He Can for Red Sox
Boston left-hander Chris Sale has had to adjust his rehab from Tommy John surgery because of the coronavirus pandemic. Sale isn’t able to go inside the Boston Red Sox facility in Fort Myers, Florida, so the team has put weights and other equipment in an outdoor batting cage. Which he also uses as a locker room. Some electric fans...
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Red Sox Reporter Turns Auctioneer, Raises $57K for Charity
As a Boston Red Sox beat writer, Chris Cotillo found himself with a lot of spare time after the baseball season was suspended, and a nagging desire to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. He didn’t have any medical training or a secret stash of N95 masks. What he did have was a collection of signed baseball cards...
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Lack of Sports Doesn't Stop DraftKings From Going Public
Sports daily fantasy and betting website DraftKings will debut as a publicly traded company Friday against a backdrop of a near-complete shutdown of athletic competition across the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic. DraftKings’ move to Wall Street was sealed Thursday after shareholders of a blank-check company, Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp., approved a merger. Blank check companies typically are publicly…
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With Betts Gone, Red Sox Fill Holes in OF and at Leadoff
When the Boston Red Sox traded Mookie Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers on the eve of spring training, they broke up the “Killer B’s” who patrolled the Fenway outfield and led the team to a World Series championship in 2018. Together, Betts, Jackie Bradley Jr. and Andrew Benintendi formed one of the best outfields in baseball and became fan…
