Matt Barnes

Matt Barnes’ nightmare second half of the Red Sox season included a poorly-timed freak injury to his thumb in late September.

All-Star slugger J.D. Martinez is on the Red Sox’ roster for their ALDS matchup with the Tampa Bay Rays, but fellow All-Star Matt Barnes didn’t make the cut.

Right-handed pitcher Nick Pivetta, who was scheduled to start Sunday as the Boston Red Sox host Cleveland, was added to the team’s growing COVID-19 injured list just three hours before the game. Pivetta will be replaced by Kutter Crawford, a right-handed pitcher from Triple-A Worcester, the team announced Sunday. Shortly after, the team announced that infielder/outfielder Danny Santana was...

A mask mandate is now in effect indoors at Fenway Park.

More than 10 members of the Boston Red Sox were missing from Friday’s game because of COVID, while Fenway Park has new masking guidelines.

The Red Sox’ roster is in a state of upheaval as the team deals with a coronavirus outbreak. Rookie outfielder Jarren Duran is the latest name added to the COVID-19 Related Injured List. As of Friday, there are 12 players and coaches out on COVID protocols, either for testing positive or for having close contacts who did. The 24-year-old outfielder…

Eleven players and coaches are out on COVID protocols, either for testing positive or for being close contacts, as Red Sox officials try to contain a potential coronavirus outbreak on the team. Infielder Yairo Munoz is the latest Boston player to test positive for COVID-19, Red Sox manager Alex Cora said in an interview Wednesday. “It’s gut-wrenching,” Chief Baseball...

Red Sox officials are trying to contain a potential coronavirus outbreak on the team as a growing number of players and coaches test positive. Boston shortstop Xander Bogaerts is the latest Red Sox player to test positive for COVID-19. The announcement from the Red Sox public relations department came after Bogaerts was abruptly pulled from Tuesday night’s game against...

Boston left-hander Martín Pérez and right-hander Matt Barnes have become the latest Red Sox players impacted by COVID-19. Both pitchers were put on the COVID-19 injured list before Monday night’s game at Tampa Bay. Boston manager Alex Cora said before the game that Pérez had tested positive. The news about Barnes came just before first pitch and other details...

After allowing a leadoff home run and two walks to the mediocre Twins Tuesday night, Matt Barnes is confident he can solve his issues. But as John Tomase writes, that might not happen as the closer.

The Boston Red Sox have placed closer Matt Barnes on the COVID-19 IL list, according to manager Alex Cora.

Matt Barnes wasn’t convinced he should change, but the Red Sox opened his eyes with a stat that has paid huge dividends so far in 2021, John Tomase writes.

Britain loves tradition, and the New York Yankees wrapped up Major League Baseball’s first trip to Europe with one of their sport’s customs: a late-inning pinstriped comeback. Gary Sanchez hit a go-ahead, two-run single in a nine-run seventh inning, and the Yankees overcome a four-run deficit to beat the Boston Red Sox 12-8 Sunday for a two-game sweep of the...

Britain loves tradition, and the New York Yankees wrapped up Major League Baseball’s first trip to Europe with one of their sport’s customs: a late-inning pinstriped comeback. Gary Sanchez hit a go-ahead, two-run single in a nine-run seventh inning, and the Yankees overcome a four-run deficit to beat the Boston Red Sox 12-8 Sunday for a two-game sweep of the...

Somehow, Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora looked at Mookie Betts’ MVP season and saw room for improvement. Not the .346 batting average that was the highest in the major leagues. Not the career-high 32 homers, either. But Betts drove in just 80 runs last year while spending almost all of his time as the leadoff hitter for the Red...

Somehow, Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora looked at Mookie Betts’ MVP season and saw room for improvement. Not the .346 batting average that was the highest in the major leagues. Not the career-high 32 homers, either. But Betts drove in just 80 runs last year while spending almost all of his time as the leadoff hitter for the Red...

The goal is the same for the Boston Red Sox in 2019: finish the season flopping around on the pitcher’s mound, celebrating another World Series title. All that’s left is for them to figure out who’s at the bottom of the pile.

Red Sox manager Alex Cora, one of the team’s championship trophies and a bystander were hit by errant beer cans thrown during the team’s victory lap through downtown Boston. Boston police said they also arrested a Massachusetts teen on Boylston Street after they saw him throw an unopened can of beer at one of the duck boats, striking an adult...

Brock Holt became the first player to hit for the cycle in a postseason game and the Boston Red Sox routed the New York Yankees 16-1 on Monday night to grab a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five AL Division Series. Andrew Benintendi lined a three-run double and Holt tripled home two more in a seven-run fourth inning that quickly turned...