Keith Allison , Flickr, Used under Creative Commons license. Well, he’s gone. After the Red Sox spent the offseason thus far making it clear that resigning Jason Bay was Priority Number…let’s say Number 46…Bay took his act south, as we noted yesterday , reportedly signing with...

AP Photo Boston team’s lost two games on Friday that both could have been won. Each team led early and then fell behind before losing in the end. Philadelphia stopped the Celtics’ 11-game winning streak with a 98-97 decision. Elton Brand led all scorers with 23 points and eight rebounds,...

Jae C. Hong / Associated Press "Whatever the hex is, I guess somebody un-hexed it," said the Angels’ Chone Figgins. We’re not sure what that hex may be, or if it’s really gone, but last night, the Angels looked like hex-free division winners. And the Red Sox looked like a...

Charles Krupa / Associated Press Mother Nature was as sick of it as you were. Josh Beckett was a very late scratch with back spasms, so the Sox sent young Michael Bowden to the mound with about 15 minutes’ notice to try to stop the Blue Jays. Five innings later, Bowden and reliever Hunter Jones...

The Red Sox will need to wait at least one more night to clinch a playoff berth. Entering the night needing a win and Rangers loss to clinch, the Red Sox  lost to the Blue Jays 11-5 after Josh Beckett was scratched from his start for back spasms . Meanwhile, the Rangers lost to the Angels, who...

It was damp. It was dreary. But, when the Pats took down the Falcons 26-10 at Gillette Stadium Sunday, the rain drops Mother Nature was throwing at us didn’t seem to matter all that much. Sure, there were still some very frustrating elements to this game. The injury situation continued to get worse,...

Charlie Riedel / Associated Press We’re officially done agonizing over Monday’s collapse and Tuesday’s shutdown. The Sox handled the Royals exactly the way a playoff-bound squad should handle a team of no-hopers, riding the cold-weakened arm of Clay Buchholz and the efficient offense...

AP Photo / Michael Dwyer Paul Byrd comes back from a year on the shelf and throws a gem. Tim Wakefield comes back from the DL and gets a W. And now Daisuke Matsuzaka comes back from three months away and beats the Angels. Clearly, some of these guys need weeks and weeks off between starts. Let’s...

AP photo . Is Jon Lester personally responsible for more wins this season than any other Red Sox? If Sarah Green, of the baseball blog UmpBump , is to be believed, yes, he is. She has compiled a pie chart showing the Wins Above Replacement, or WAR, of every Red Sox player with a positive rating. WAR...

Elise Amendola/Associated Press Harvard Law professor and torture enthusiast Alan Dershowitz ran nearly 700 words in today’s Globe about the injustice of the beanball . Using the most recent beaning of ball magnet Kevin Youkilis as a case study, Dershowitz points out the obvious: a team that beans...