After a 6-3 win over Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers that saw them eclipse the .500 mark for the first time this season, the Red Sox learned that Dustin Pedroia has a torn adductor muscle in his right thumb. Media reports indicate that the injury will not require surgery, and though the team has [...]

After a 4-10 start that followed with seven wins in eight games to even their record at 11-11, the Boston Red Sox then dropped eight out of nine and plummeted to 12-19. Since then, they are 13-5 and finally eclipsed the .500 mark with a 6-3 victory over Detroit on Tuesday. Now 25-24, the injury-depleted [...]

Felix Doubront is not likely to ever emerge as a staff ace – the kind of arm that can carry the Red Sox rotation. Yet the 24-year-old left-hander has a chance to maintain a long-term presence in Boston with his power arm and his assortment of plus pitches. On Monday, Doubront limited Detroit to two [...]

One member of Boston’s injury-ravaged outfield has returned. Ryan Sweeney, who was hitting .311 when he landed on the seven-day concussion DL after making a spectacular diving catch, was activated today and is in the starting lineup in center field for this afternoon’s series opener against Detroit. Che-Hsuan Lin was optioned to Pawtucket to make [...]

Over the course of the long and weary 162-game Major League Baseball season, it is advisable that fans get neither too high or too low about their respective team because momentum can change in a matter of 24 hours, or less. After Jarrod Saltalamacchia slugged a two-run walk-off home run against Fernando Rodney to give [...]

On a night when Carlton Fisk was recognized in a pre-game ceremony to commemorate his dramatic walk-off home run against the Reds in Game Seven of the 1975 World Series, it was fitting that a Red Sox catcher slugged a walk-off blast that lifted Boston to a 3-2 victory over Tampa Bay on Saturday at [...]

Two of the seven outfielders who currently occupy the Red Sox disabled list are nearing their respective returns. Ryan Sweeney, who has been sidelined since injuring his neck and being placed on the seven-day concussion disabled list while making a spectacular diving catch, passed his MLB-required concussion test and is eligible to return from the [...]

Daisuke Matsuzaka’s neck and arm appeared fine on Saturday night when he tossed five shutout innings in a rehab start for Triple-A Pawtucket. Matsuzaka needed just 56 pitches to log five innings, and he retired the first eight batters he faced until former Red Sox farmhand Argenis Diaz singled. He allowed one hit and one [...]

With seven outfielders currently on the disabled list, including last year’s American League MVP runner-up Jacoby Ellsbury, the Red Sox could use some good news about some of that depth returning. Ryan Kalish, a top prospect who missed most of last season with shoulder and neck injuries, will begin a rehab stint tonight at advanced [...]

Love him or, as much of Red Sox Nation does, consider his trips to the mound an excruciating personal test of patience and anger-control, Daisuke Matsuzaka is nearing a return to the Red Sox rotation. And this will be good for the Red Sox, as long as Matsuzaka is healthy. After all, his numbers show [...]