Red Sox play party crashers in Denver

DENVER — Jonathan Papelbon walked around Coors Field in a daze on Sunday night, deliriously happy but also admittedly wiped out.
The 26-year-old closer tried to come up with the right words to describe his elation to have been on the mound when the Red Sox made their sweep over the Rockies official, but standing among [...]

Schilling, Red Sox take 2-0 Series lead

BOSTON – There’s more than one way to rough up the Rockies. Boston’s big bats battered them in the World Series opener. Then October ace Curt Schilling and a stingy [...]

Red Sox are the heavies now

BOSTON – As late-inning runs kept scoring against the Cleveland corpse, a frenzied Fenway sang and swayed at a comeback so complete, so cutthroat, the most stunning thing happened: the Red Sox morphed into the Yankees.
After eight decades of chasing down their New York rival, they’ve now replaced them as the monsters of October. They [...]