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The fan who hit Boston Red Sox left fielder Alex Verdugo with a baseball thrown out of the Yankee Stadium stands has been banned for life from attending big league games

Thursday’s matchup between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees has been postponed due to a COVID-19 issue within the Yankees organization.

With the fourth pick in the 2021 MLB Draft, the Boston Red Sox selected shortstop Marcelo Mayer out of Eastlake High School in California.

Former Major League player and manager Bobby Valentine announced Friday he is running for mayor of Stamford. “It’s official! I’m seeking your support to be the next Mayor of Stamford, CT!” he tweeted Friday. Valentine, 70, who currently serves as the athletic director at Sacred Heart University, posted a video on social media and said he’ll run as an...

The Red Sox will wear bold new alternate uniforms later this month that pay tribute to the Boston Marathon. Here’s a look at the new threads.

Red Sox fans are back at Fenway Park! Friday’s game marked the first time fans were allowed back inside the beloved ballpark in 18 months. “Just to be back to something normal made me so happy,” said Kim Swart from Stow. Despite the team’s 3-0 loss, fans say they were just happy to be back cheering in-person for their...

The Red Sox home opener against the Baltimore Orioles has been postponed due to rain, the team said Thursday, temporarily dampening excitement over the return of fans to Fenway Park. The game will be played Friday at 2:10 p.m. instead, the Red Sox said in a statement. “The decision to postpone our first game of the season was not made…

The Boston Red Sox announced this week that single-game tickets for April home games will go on sale to the general public on Thursday at 10 a.m. The team said tickets will initially be priced at 2020 individual game prices, and will fluctuate based on demand and variables such as the date, number of tickets available, opponent and weather conditions….

Basketball great LeBron James is becoming a part-owner of the Boston Red Sox, according to a report in The Boston Globe Tuesday. The Los Angeles Laker is joining Fenway Sports Group as a partner, a source told the newspaper.

The bodycam footage of former Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon’s recent arrest for driving under the influence was released on Wednesday.

Former All-Star baseball player Johnny Damon was arrested early Friday morning in Florida on suspicion of drunken driving and resisting arrest, court records show. Damon’s wife, Michelle Mangan-Damon, was also arrested by Windermere police, who’d pulled the couple over after noticing their SUV was weaving on the road about 1:23 a.m., officers said. Mangan-Damon was charged with hitting an...

Bianca Smith is the newest member of the Red Sox minor league coaching staff and as our John Tomase writes as part of our tribute to Black History Month, she loves the challenge and her role model status.

Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia announced his retirement from baseball on Monday. Pedroia, 37, spent his entire 17-year professional career in the Red Sox organization after being drafted in the second round of the 2004 draft. He played in over 1,500 games with the team from 2006 to 2019. He battled injuries in recent years and struggled to…

Alex Cora is returning as manager of the Boston Red Sox, the team announced Friday. Cora and the Sox have agreed to a two-year contract that will run through the 2022 season, with a two-year club option for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Cora, 45, who has won two World Series titles with the Red Sox, one as a player…

Ron Roenicke waited five years after his previous managerial job for another opportunity. When it finally came, it wasn’t much of an opportunity at all. The Red Sox told Roenicke before the final game of the season on Sunday that he will not be back in 2021, ending his tenure as a one-year, shotgun stopgap for a pandemic-shortened season with…

New England Patriots fans will all be watching games at home for at least the start of this football season because of the coronavirus, while Boston Red Sox fans won’t get a chance to watch the team in person at all this year. Officials at Gillette Stadium said Tuesday that they were told by the Massachusetts Reopening Advisory Board...

John McNamara, who managed the Boston Red Sox to within one strike of a World Series victory in 1986 before an unprecedented collapse on the field extended the team’s championship drought into the new millennium, has died. He was 88. McNamara died Tuesday at his home in Tennessee, his wife, Ellen, told The Associated Press. The death was unexpected and…

Red Sox pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez said he is awaiting results of additional testing after doctors recently discovered an issue with his heart they believe is a result of his recent bout with COVID-19. The 27-year-old left-hander tested positive for the coronavirus before the start of summer camp, but was cleared and returned to workouts on July 18. He hasn’t had…

The Boston Red Sox made a very visible statement of anti-racism Wednesday as they put up a huge Black Lives Matter sign on an exterior wall of Fenway Park. The sign, which says “Black Lives Matter” in large letters followed by the Sox’ logo, faces the Massachusetts Turnpike and directs viewers to the Red Sox Foundation website for more information….

Mike Ryan, the backup catcher on the Boston Red Sox’s 1967 “Impossible Dream” team during a 35-year career in professional baseball, has died. He was 78....

The Red Sox said Ryan died in his sleep Tuesday in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire....

A native of Haverhill, Ryan appeared in 636 games with the Red Sox, Phillies and Pirates from 1964-74. He was Boston’s...