B.J. Upton and the Tampa Bay Rays won a game of home run derby with a shallow fly ball. Pinch-runner Fernando Perez dashed home on Upton’s sacrifice fly in the...

B.J. Upton and the Tampa Bay Rays won a game of home run derby with a shallow fly ball.

Josh Beckett’s reputation as a postseason ace is taking a beating.

Dustin Pedroia hit two early home runs, then dashed home on Tampa Bay reliever Dan Wheeler’s wild pitch in the eighth inning to leave the Boston Red Sox and Rays...

Evan Longoria and B.J. Upton homered off Josh Beckett and Carl Crawford delivered a go-ahead single, giving the Tampa Bay Rays a 4-3 lead over the Boston Red Sox after...

The Kansas City Royals are raising prices on most of their tickets for 2009.

Going to a baseball game in Detroit used to mean heading to Michigan and Trumbull, the intersection that became shorthand for Tiger Stadium. Go there today, and all...

Daisuke Matsuzaka will be on the mound for the Red Sox when the AL championship series begins Friday night against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Curt Schilling could have been ready to pitch in the AL championship series, according to his surgeon.

Daisuke Matsuzaka has been picked by the Boston Red Sox to open the AL championship series against the Tampa Bay Rays.

A look at the best-of-seven American League championship series between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays:

They were baseball’s best over the long, hot summer. Then came October, and another big chill.

New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera had surgery Tuesday on his right shoulder and is expected to resume throwing in three months, a month ahead of spring training.

They rushed toward the mound, these remarkable Rays, and immediately formed a circle. Jumping together like fraternity brothers, they resembled party regulars in the...

The Boston Red Sox brushed aside the 100-win Angels in four games, dismissing their best-in-baseball regular season as last month’s news.

B.J. Upton and these Tampa Bay Rays are headed home _ to get ready for the American League championship series. Worst in the majors last year, the Rays will play for a...

B.J. Upton and these Tampa Bay Rays are headed home _ to get ready for the American League championship series.

Mike Lowell’s sore right hip kept the World Series MVP out of Boston’s starting lineup for Game 4 of the AL playoffs against the Los Angeles Angels on...

Josh Beckett waited four extra days for a chance to show his postseason brilliance.

Francisco Rodriguez’s biggest save of a record-breaking season came in a tie game.