Wakefield gets shut down
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The shoulder injury that has bothered Tim Wakefield for two months - forcing him to be scratched from a start in September and keeping him off the American League Division Series roster - will prevent the knuckleballer from pitching in the World Series.
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Lose the choreography and dial back the frivolity. Thatâs my advice for the Mets as they resume the season. The Yankees, on the other hand, could use a bit of strut.
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No need to watch the out-of-town scoreboard anymore. What the Yankees and White Sox and Twins and everybody else in sanitary hose are doing will be irrelevant if the town team keeps losing life-and-death games with last-place ball clubs.
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Time is running out on the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers wasted a chance to cut their NL Central deficit to one game, giving up a first-inning home run to Albert Pujols in a testy 7-3 loss Wednesday night to the St. Louis Cardinals that saw two more hit batters and a pair of ejections.
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This is it. There will be no more second chances. No more Curt Schillings and Keith Foulkes to sign in the off-season. While it really hasnât been discussed, the organization is expected to take another
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Whaddya think? Let him close tonight? He threw only 99 pitches and he was still pumping high-octane gas at the end. Curt Schilling might be good for a batter or two in a pinch tonight.
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The Boston Red Sox have left 17-game winner Tim Wakefield off their World Series roster against Colorado because of the knuckleballer's shoulder injury, manager Terry Francona said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK - Washington&#39;s new baseball team shut down business and promotional operations indefinitely Wednesday as its move to the nation&#39;s capital teetered on the brink of collapse.
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England's controversial tour to Zimbabwe took another dramatic twist when Michael Vaughan's team called off their scheduled flight to Harare.
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The punchless New York Yankees continued their downward spiral with a 3-2 setback to the last-placed Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday.
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A comeback win kept the Boston Red Sox in first place. Staying there could be tougher if Tim Wakefield is sidelined.
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&#39;You suck! You&#39;re a piece of &amp;%$#*! You can&#39;t play worth *$#!% you loser, so SIT DOWN!!!&quot; That&#39;s what a guy was yelling at a visiting player during a White Sox-Angels game earlier this summer.
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Sam Perlozzo was fired as manager by the Orioles yesterday, the result of his inability to bring last-place Baltimore out of a lengthy funk culminated by an eight-game losing streak.
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When it comes to giving up long balls, Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield has a short memory. Just three weeks after he surrendered a club-record six home runs to the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park, tying the post-1900 major league record, the wily knuckleballer delivered one of his best starts of the season in the rematch. Striking out a season-high ...
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Tim Wakefield finished off the Tigers on Sunday. Now comes the real challenge for the streaking Red Sox. Boston beat Detroit 6-1, ending a stretch of 26 games - 23 against teams below
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The Boston Red Sox have left 17-game  winner Tim Wakefield off their World Series roster against  Colorado because of the knuckleballer's ailing right shoulder,  manager Terry Francona said on Tuesday.
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Nick Markakis hit a three-run homer and the Baltimore Orioles broke a nine-game losing streak with a 9-8 win over the reeling Boston Red Sox, who lost starter Tim Wakefield even before Friday night's game began.