PORTLAND — As the son of a former Major League catcher and manager, Michael Brenly knows the dynamics of a professional baseball team better than anyone on the 2014 Portland Sea Dogs. Brenly knows relationships have already been forged and cliques formed over the course of a season or two or three in the low […]
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Red Sox fall to Orioles 2-1 in season opener
BALTIMORE (AP) — Grady Sizemore will never forget his first opening day with the Boston Red Sox. His teammates, however, can’t wait to put the memory of the game behind them. The defending World Series champion Red Sox failed to capitalize on several scoring opportunities, and a home run by Sizemore wasn’t enough to prevent […]
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College Baseball: Bates’ Davis saw change in two sports
LEWISTON — Kevin Davis wasn’t quite ready for the change-up when he enrolled at Bates College. Originally recruited to play football at Bates, the North Andover, MA native and three-sport star at St. John’s prep didn’t want to make a change of pace and limit himself to just one sport in college. So shortly after […]
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College Baseball: Bobcats have unity, talent to take on NESCAC
LEWISTON — Bates coach Mike Leonard isn’t surprised his team has picked itself up from an 0-6 start to start the season and won five of its last six. Unfortunately, the Bobcats have faced much deeper off-the-field adversity. The deaths of classmate John Durkin and Kobe Huynh, a 14-year-old Auburn Middle School student they had […]
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Orioles take edge off Red Sox, 5-4
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Miguel Gonzalez got through five innings in his final spring start, giving up four runs as the split-squad Baltimore Orioles beat the Boston Red Sox 5-4 Wednesday. Gonzalez allowed seven hits, including back-to-back home runs by Xander Bogaerts and Will Middlebrooks leading off the fourth. Middlebrooks hit his fourth homer […]
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Pitchers, catchers come out of the cold for first day of practice
LEWISTON — It was 25 degrees, with a wind chill hovering around Groundhog Day, when Lewiston’s pitchers and catchers reported back to the high school early Monday night for the opening of the spring sports season. Baseball teams across the state were allowed to bring in eight pitchers and two catchers ( for softball, any […]
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Red Sox: Butterfield back for seconds at third
PORTLAND — If homecomings always played out perfectly as the one Brian Butterfield experienced in 2013, life would be a lot less complex. And everybody would be doing it. Deep into a career that has occupied a portion of five different decades, having spent time with the New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks and Toronto Blue […]
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Victorino, Sox dispatch Twins, 4-3
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Phil Hughes couldn’t overcome some sloppy defense to allow two unearned runs in the third inning of the Minnesota Twins’ 4-3 loss Thursday to the Boston Red Sox. Twins third baseman Trevor Plouffe failed to glove Xander Bogaerts’ leadoff grounder in a 37-pitch third Hughes. Bogaerts scored one out later […]
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Red Sox deflect Rays
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Jon Lester allowed one hit over three scoreless innings in his delayed first spring training start and David Ortiz hit his first home run of the exhibition season Monday as the Boston Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-2. Lester pitched 248 innings last year in the regular- and […]
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Baseball/softball clinics to be held
Spring training and hitting clinics will be held on Sundays from March 9 through April 13 at Lewiston High School. Baseball and softball players in grades three through eight from all local communities are invited to attend as many sessions as they would like. The clinics will be directed by Lewiston varsity baseball coach Dave […]