CHICAGO – First baseman Willson Contreras, expected to participate in the Home Run Derby on Monday and for the AL All-Star team on Tuesday at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, won’t take his next swing for the Red Sox until July 17 in the second game of a day-night doubleheader

CHICAGO – Even as the right side of their infield became a MASH unit in real time, the Red Sox stayed hot on Wednesday night, extending their winning streak to five games with a 5-0 victory over the White Sox at Rate Field. No Willson Contreras (left foot contusion) or

CHICAGO – Showing more thump than at any other point in his career, Red Sox cleanup hitter Willson Contreras has accepted MLB’s invitation to be a participant in the T-Mobile Home Run Derby. With a right-handed swing tailor made for Fenway Park, Contreras has 20 homers in 306 at-bats, just

CHICAGO -- Will the final road trip before the All-Star break be the one that vaults the Red Sox back into contention? Through the first four games of a nine-game journey -- all wins -- it is certainly possible.

CHICAGO -- Rookie wall? Payton Tolle felt no such thing, not even when he had his worst start of the season last Wednesday at Fenway Park, getting just nine outs and giving up six runs in a demoralizing defeat to the Nationals.

ANAHEIM -- The Red Sox will have three representatives at the upcoming Midsummer Classic, as slugging first baseman Willson Contreras was named an injury replacement for the Blue Jays' Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on Tuesday. Contreras will be joined on the American League roster by Boston lefties Ranger Suarez and Aroldis

CHICAGO -- In this final week before the All-Star break, there will be some twists and turns for a Red Sox rotation that has been a strong point for most of the season. Lefty Patrick Sandoval will start the finale of this three-game series against the White Sox on Thursday

In recent years, the Red Sox have seen that the fruits of labor from a Draft don’t always have to be far down the road. Look no further than lefty Payton Tolle, the 50th overall pick out of TCU in the 2024 Draft. He is now a cornerstone in Boston’s

ANAHEIM -- It's official: No relief pitcher in Major League Baseball history has more strikeouts than Aroldis Chapman. The veteran Boston Red Sox closer fanned the Angels' Denzer Guzman leading off the ninth inning Friday night at Angel Stadium for career strikeout No. 1,364, breaking Hall of Famer Hoyt Wilhelm’s

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BOSTON -- The Red Sox, humming along in the starting rotation of late, will be down a man in the coming weeks. Connelly Early, one of three lefties in the team’s surging starting five, was placed on the 15-day injured list on Wednesday, the day after he exited his start

BOSTON – A homestand that started with renewed hope, generated by the excitement of a season-long, five-game winning streak, ended with an empty feeling for the Red Sox. Knowing their time is growing short to make the type of run that would convince the front office to buy instead of

BOSTON – The Red Sox had momentum on offense and the mound as they took a season-high five-game winning streak with them back to Fenway Park on Tuesday night.

BOSTON -- Things got heated at Fenway Park on Tuesday night, when Nationals righty Cade Cavalli struck out Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras looking on a 3-2 sweeper to get the second out of the fourth inning. What initially looked like a routine strikeout became a lot more when

BOSTON -- Willson Contreras plays for the Red Sox. But he is playing for Venezuela, his native country that was ravaged by earthquakes last Wednesday. When Contreras mashed a three-run homer in the bottom of the first inning in Monday night’s 6-3 win against the Nationals at Fenway Park, he

BOSTON – Letdown following the four-game sweep in the Yankees series? Hardly.

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BOSTON – With a six-pitch mix, and the self-proclaimed best spinner of the baseball in the Majors, it would surprise nobody if Sonny Gray throws a no-hitter at some point in his career. For a while, it seemed like that point was going to be in a most dramatic setting

BOSTON – For a while, the story was Sonny Gray’s near no-hitter, which ended with one out in the eighth. Then, the focus shifted to Aroldis Chapman blowing his second save in a week and Wilyer Abreu having some rare defensive breakdowns in right field.

BOSTON – Patrick Sandoval’s long road back to pitching in a Major League game gained some steam on Sunday when the lefty went four strong innings (three hits, one run, one walk, three strikeouts) for Triple-A Worcester and threw 60 pitches. The lefty last pitched in the Majors on June

BOSTON – The Red Sox, who missed Romy Gonzalez’s right-handed bat for the first half of their season, got him back for game No. 82 – on Sunday Night Baseball against the Yankees.

BOSTON – One of the three rookie lefties in the surging rotation for the Boston Red Sox, Jake Bennett did what has become the expected of late. Bennett mowed down the opposition with precision, and on a big stage, too, outpitching Gerritt Cole as the Red Sox downed the Yankees,

BOSTON – Now at the midpoint of their season, are the 35-46 Red Sox at last hitting their stride? Though being on pace to finish with a 70-92 record is something team evaluators couldn’t have imagined back in Spring Training, there could still be time for interim manager Chad Tracy’s

BOSTON – The possibility of history – as in the first perfect game by a Boston pitcher since Cy Young in 1904 – at least hovered slightly in the Fenway Park air for a while on Friday night. Payton Tolle, Boston’s standout rookie, retired 16 straight Yankees before Spencer Jones

BOSTON -- As the Red Sox chase that burst of momentum that has eluded them through a season that’s nearly half over, Payton Tolle temporarily provided perfection when he retired the first 16 batters he faced on Friday night against the Yankees. Backed by Tolle’s dazzling, seven-inning performance (one hit,