Spruce Mountain baseball coach Brian Dube oversees an indoor practice at the old Livermore Falls High School. (Sun Journal file photo) The coaching carousel never stops spinning, but high school coach Brian Dube is getting off for good after a successful 22-year career, and Stephen Lancaster is staying on for the long run. Lancaster, the […]
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Red Sox vs. Dodgers: A viewer’s guide to the World Series
Just after 8 p.m. Tuesday, the Red Sox will welcome the Los Angeles Dodgers to Fenway Park for the first game of the 144th edition of the World Series. And history will be made, one way or the other, for either a Red Sox team that won 108 regular season games or a Dodgers team […]
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World Series set for a cold start
BOSTON (AP) — Hooting and hollering, Chris Taylor and a couple of Dodgers took aim at the Green Monster. With their arms, not bats. Standing in left field, they kept throwing balls at a small, square space in the scoreboard, shouting every time a miss clanged off the metal letters. “I’ve got good aim!” Taylor […]
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Red Sox-Dodgers: Rich histories, but little crossover
Sandy Koufax, Jackie Robinson and the Boys of Summer. Ted Williams to Yaz and the Impossible Dream. Manny Ramirez. Pedro Martinez. Bill Buckner. Fenway Franks and Dodger Dogs. Ebbets Field, the Green Monster. “Sweet Caroline” or “I Love L.A.” Yet for all their rich history — dating back to Babe Ruth on the mound — […]
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Sox catch 3-1 series lead
Fans interfere with Boston Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts trying to catch a ball hit by Houston Astros’ Jose Altuve during the first inning in Game 4 of a baseball American League Championship Series on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, in Houston. Altuve was called out. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) HOUSTON (AP) — Left fielder […]
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Sox even ALCS with 7-5 win in Game 2
BOSTON (AP) — David Price was good enough, the Red Sox bullpen was even better, and Jackie Bradley Jr. delivered a go-ahead, three-run double off the Green Monster on Sunday night to lead Boston to a 7-5 victory over the Houston Astros and tie the AL Championship Series at one game apiece. Price fell one […]
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Astros walk the walk in Game 1, drop Sox, 7-2
Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Chris Sale walks to the dugout after giving up two runs against the Houston Astros during the second inning in Game 1 of a baseball American League Championship Series on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, in Boston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) BOSTON (AP) — Justin Verlander outlasted an uncharacteristically wild Chris […]
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After World Series win with Astros, Red Sox manager Alex Cora aims to knock them out
BOSTON — Alex Cora led Boston to a victory over the hated Yankees. Next up for the first-year Red Sox manager: The team he left after winning a World Series as a bench coach last season. “I’ve been talking about them the whole season, so now we go,” he said after the Red Sox beat […]
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Bruins move up start time Saturday to avoid conflict with Red Sox
BOSTON — The Boston Bruins have moved up the start time of Saturday’s game against the Detroit Red Wings to 3 p.m. to avoid a conflict with the Red Sox playoff game. The hockey game had been a 7 p.m. start. Game 1 of the AL Championship Series between the Red Sox and Houston […]
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“We’re ready for another shot” — Red Sox eliminate Yankees, advance to face Astros in ALCS
NEW YORK — Craig Kimbrel and the Boston Red Sox held off the Yankees’ ninth-inning rally that ended with a video replay, eliminating New York with a 4-3 victory Tuesday night that set up a postseason rematch with the World Series champion Houston Astros. Trailing in Game 4 of the AL Division Series, the Yankees […]