BOSTON (AP) — Tim Wakefield, the knuckleballing workhorse of the Red Sox pitching staff who bounced back after giving up a season-ending home run to the Yankees in the 2003 playoffs to help Boston win its curse-busting World Series title the followin...
Part of the depth in the pitching pool ; Clay Buchholz, who is heading to Portland, has a lot of admirers among the Red Sox brass.KEVIN THOMAS Staff Writer
The Blue Jays have the big-name splash, but Tampa Bay's quality depth is unmatched, with the Red Sox and Yankees (and Orioles) playing catch-up.
Dozier / USA TODAY NETWORK Hayward, CA native Tarik Skubal debuted during the COVID-shortened 2020 season and has since quietly developed into the best pitcher on the Detroit Tigers staff. The southpaw was especially good a year ago, going 7-3 and pitching to a stellar 2.80 ERA in 15...
would be his last run-- there isn’t much room for Jamie Moyer types in baseball today -- but then again, we’ve all said that before about him, and here he is, still pitching, in his 20th consecutive MLB season. Baseball will be a little less fun when Rich Hill is officially ...
has his best stuff today. Cleveland fans know the stakes for the right-hander: He has just been waived by the Red Sox, and the pulse of his once-promising career had all but flatlined prior to that day. This is his last gasp.Five years earlier, he'd had been regarded as ...
Around the turn of the century, however, women athletes of real ability began competing with men and sometimes playing on the same teams in bygone semipro leagues. The first to appear in baseball’s minor leagues was Lizzie Arlington, who wore bloomers while pitching for the Reading (Pe...
Infamous for: Crushing Astros pitching for nearly two decades No player has drawn the angst of Astros fans more than Pujols, who has spent nearly his entire career in the same division as Houston -- first as a member of the Cardinals in the NL Central and then with the Angels in the AL...
“Everyone who is pitching in deserves our gratitude and support. We’re all in this together.” In an interview with TEGNA’s CBS affiliate KHOU-TV Houston, Vice President Mike Pence said, “Well, first, let me thank you, and let me thank this station, and all the great local media ...
EPA, DOE chiefs warm up their pitching arms for Earth Day appearance at Fenway Park U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will throw out the first pitchrnat Fenway Park in front of tens of thousands of fans Tuesday night as the Boston Red Soxrnprepare to take ...