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Boston's Red Sox wilted in a steamy Texas evening and lost to the Rangers, 4-0. The Sox are 0-4 against Texas in 2011. Erik Bedard (4-9) pitched seven innings and allowed four runs on seven hits. Bedard was very effective until the sixth inning when Mike Napoli crushed a fastball for a decisive three-run home run. Boston's non-existent offense included base hits from Adrian Gonzalez, Dustin Pedroia, Jed Lowrie, and Carl Crawford. more ›

David Ortiz drove in the winning run with perha ps the shortest hit of his Red Sox (72-43) career, an infield single, in the seventh inning of a 4-3 win in Minnesota. The Sox have won four straight games and havea 2.5 game lead over New York in the A.L. East. Erik Bedard had no decision after five innings in which he allowed three hits and two runs. Bedard recorded six strikeouts. Darnell McDonald's two-run home run in the fifth that tied the score at 2-2. more ›

Erik Bedard didn't get a victory in his first start with the Red Sox as Cleveland won, 7-3, with a 14-hit attack last night. He might have pitched well enough to get a win as he allowed three runs in his five innings of work. Bedard allowed seven hits and struck out five. Former Sox pitcher Justin Masterson (9-7) got the win for the Tribe with three runs on five hits in six innings. He had nine strikeouts. more ›

Back-to-back home runs from Asdrubal Cabrera and Travis Hafner in the sixth put Cleveland ahead for good en route to a 9-6 victory over the Red Sox (66-41) last night. After a series of good starts, John Lackey reverted to his bad form with 6.2 innings of work in which he allowed five runs on eight hits. Daniel Bard (1-5) was ineffective, got just one out, and allowed three runs, two hits and a home run. Bard hadn't allowed a run in 26.1 innings, the longest such streak in baseball in 2011. more ›

Red Sox Sox GM Theo Epstein was able to acquire a pitcher before the 2011 MLB trading deadline, it just wasn't Rich Harden. Yahoo! Sports said Sox execs and trainers questioned the deal based on Harden's health history and Oakland nixed it. So, Boston switched gears and cooked up a three-way deal involving the Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Dodgers that brought Seattle's Erik Bedard to Fenway Park and cost the Sox four minor-league prospects most fans have never heard of. The Sox also obtained AAA right-hander Josh Fields from Seattle. more ›

The baseball winter meetings are over, and the Red Sox find themselves without an ace. Except for the one they have. And the Japanese guy who might yet become one. And the old cowboy back for one more year. And the two or three promising kids who might be a couple years away. But they haven't landed Johan Santana, which is either a failure (if they really were after Santana) or a success (if their... more ›

We here at the Redux are starting to get awfully cranky. You see, we are running out of ways to tell folks to keep the faith and stay off the Zakim Bridge. We've invested a lot of time in the act of reassuring Red Sox fans, asking them to refrain from hitting the panic button. You'd think the Red Sox would help us out and do their part to keep people calm. That would be... more ›

Green Kool-Aid is our favorite flavor. (Yes, Green is a flavor.) We've been chugging the semi-sour variety of it for three years now, as Danny Ainge has told us that we'd been assembling key parts for a magical youth movement that would lead the Celtics back to glory. And we've sipped the ultra-sour variety for a month, trying to figure out what kind of a youth movement features a creaky 32-year-old shooter. But today, the... more ›