Andrew Bailey

3B Will Middlebrooks (1-for-5) hit his eighth home run of the season in the second inning with a solo shot off LHP Pedro Hernandez. Nine of his last 11 hits have been for extra bases (seven doubles, two home runs). Of his 34 hits on the season, 19 are...

The Boston Red Sox are on a roll. They will be looking for their sixth straight win when they visit the Chicago White Sox for the opener of a three-game series on Monday. The Red Sox have received strong starting pitching throughout the bulk of their...

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MLB Team Report - Boston Red Sox - INSIDE PITCH Every chance he gets, David Ortiz reminds the Minnesota Twins about the one that got away. Ortiz signed with the Red Sox after the 2002 season, when the Twins declined to tender him a contract. And...

With eight weeks until the All-Star Game in New York, a campaign has begun on the Internet to get Yankees closer Mariano Rivera to start for the American League. Clay Buchholz wouldn't object. Buchholz is 6-0 with a 1.78 ERA for the Red Sox, putting...

The Red Sox began the season with two All-Star closers -- an embarrassment of riches! -- and barely a month later have handed the ninth inning to Junichi Tazawa, a former member of the Japanese Industrial League with exactly one career save. Welcome...

The Kansas City Royals have wasted a pair of superb pitching performances and, consequently, are staring at the possibility of a three-game sweep in the series finale against the host Oakland Athletics on Sunday. Luis Mendoza will take the mound for the...

The Sports Xchange A's 2, Royals 1 OAKLAND -- Kansas City Royals starter Ervin Santana was his usual effective self against the Oakland A's on Saturday night, but one night after James Shields had an equally strong outing at the Oakland Coliseum and...

The Sports Xchange A's Milone overcomes rough beginning OAKLAND, Calif. -- Tommy Milone threw so many pitches in the first two innings that Oakland A's manager Bob Melvin feared he wouldn't make it far into the game. The A's left-hander not only kept...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Boston Red Sox - INSIDE PITCH Even after embattled reliever Daniel Bard's meltdown Wednesday night at Double-A Portland, manager John Farrell said the Red Sox are not yet considering sending him to extended spring...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- In the absence of a proven closer, go ahead and credit the save for the Red Sox' come-from-behind 4-3 victory last night to right fielder Shane Victorino. Trailing 3-1 and down to their final strike in the ninth inning, the Sox...

The Sports Xchange Red Sox's Bailey eyes Monday return On the same day Boston Red Sox reliever Joel Hanrahan underwent Tommy John surgery, the team got positive news about another right-handed reliever. Andrew Bailey will make a rehab appearance...