BOSTON The last time the Blue Jays faced Clay Buchholz, Edwin Encarnacion was left out of the starting lineup because of his career numbers against the Red Sox right-hander. This time, the Toronto first baseman was too hot to sit. “I don’t think you can get any hotter than this,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons […]

BOSTON (AP) — Stephen Drew was working out in Arizona, hoping for a team to sign him to a contract. Now that the Boston Red Sox have come calling, he thinks he’ll need about nine or 10 days to be ready. “The last five months I’ve been working real hard, seven days a week,” Drew […]

PORTLAND — The Portland Sea Dogs (30-15) used a complete game in the first tilt and a five-run fifth in the second to sweep away the Binghamton Mets (24-20), 5-1 and 6-5 in an Eastern League baseball doubleheader Wednesday night at Hadlock Field. In the opener, the Sea Dogs scored right away off Luis Cessa […]

TOPSHAM The Mt. Ararat High School baseball team came into its Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference matchup with one win and facing a team in Messalonskee which was sitting on top of the Eastern Maine Class A Heal Point Standings one season after winning the Eastern Maine Class A title. Mt. Ararat’s Kevin Carter pitched a […]

TURNER — Leavitt High School used a 15-hit attack and Kaitlyn Deblois smashed a two-run homer as the Hornets rolled over Morse with a 13-0 win in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference softball game on Wednesday. The Hornets (7-4) reeled off six runs in the first inning and erupted with another four in a five-inning […]

TURNER — Trenton Moore pounded out five hits to lead the Morse High School baseball team to a 12- 1 Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B win over Leavitt on Wednesday. Moore drove in four, scored three runs and swiped two bases. Two of his hits were doubles. Ethan Winglass, Chris Paulus and Josh McDougal […]

YORK — York edged Freeport, 12-11 in overtime for a key girls Eastern B high school lacrosse win on Wednesday. In an evenly played game, the Wildcats came out on top to improve to 4-4, while the Falcons fell to 6-2 and plays host to Greely on Saturday. York scored first, and Freeport answered 32 […]

BOSTON (AP) — Investigators asked for help from tattoo artists who may have inked former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, saying they could help in the prosecution of a double murder Hernandez is charged with committing in 2012. The Suffolk district attorney’s office stressed that the tattoo artists are considered witnesses, not suspects, […]