Jason Varitek hits two home runs and Jon Lester pitches seven shutout innings to beat the Phillies.

Cliff Lee throws a third consecutive shutout and Boston, which may start David Ortiz tonight, loses again.

I’ve never liked interleague play in Major League Baseball. This year, I like it even less. For years, I’ve been saying that there are too many interleague games in baseball. Each year, exciting playoff races are put on hold for a full two weeks as the leagues square off, with each American League playing 18 […]

The Boston Red Sox still aren’t hitting. The way the Pittsburgh Pirates kicked the baseball around on Sunday, it didn’t matter.

Andrew Miller picked up his first win with Boston, scattering five hits over six innings as the Red Sox snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the sloppy Pirates.

Boston loses 6-4 at Pittsburgh despite hitting three homers and also drops out of first place, a half-game behind New York.

David Ortiz walked to the plate representing the go-ahead run in the eighth inning Friday night, and the thousands of Boston Red Sox fans who crammed PNC Park waited for Big Papi to send the ball over the right-field wall, into the Allegheny River.

Mother Nature and Pittsburgh reliever Jose Veras had other ideas.

San Diego takes advantage of a wild John Lackey in a game stopped in the eighth.