HOUSTON – Growing up in Cuba, Yordan Alvarez was taught that the United States is a bad country. This thought was so ingrained in her that she said she skipped English lessons at school when she was 12 or 13. “Why should I take an English course if I’m never going to the United States?” …
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HOUSTON – Growing up in Cuba, Yordan Alvarez was taught that the United States is a bad country. This thought was so ingrained in her that she said she skipped English lessons at school when she was 12 or 13. “Why should I take an English course if I’m never going to the United States?” …
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A couple of ugly losses in a row have rocked Boston. But as the ALCS slides into Houston, the Red Sox are buoyed by the idea that they’ve tackled worse vulnerabilities in the past. Source link
BOSTON – No one has yet driven the 2021 Boston Red Sox to extinction. The Yankees tried and failed. Tampa Bay had a chance, but it didn’t do that either. It was almost a lot earlier during the final weekend of the regular season in Washington DC, but Boston survived. Now it’s the Houston Astros’ …
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BOSTON – Brent Strom’s father, Chester, grew up in Worcester, Mass., about 45 miles west of Fenway Park. Chester raised his son in San Diego but passed on his love for the Boston Celtics, which dominated the NBA when Brent was young. Brent Strom, now 73, would go on to have a long career in …
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BOSTON – It was the kind of specialist curveball that could make a pitcher a lot of money. It just left Nathan Eovaldi’s fingertips, bent in midair, and landed on Christian Vázquez’s glove. It crossed the home plate, perhaps exactly as Eovaldi intended, dotting the upper, far corner of the impact zone, on the outer …
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BOSTON — Imagine the Boston Red Sox invite you to Fenway Park to choose their roster. For every championship team this century, you wouldn’t need any help finding the leading man. Left-handed left-wing Johnny Damon could have been the obvious choice in 2004. It was the same for the feisty little second baseman Dustin Pedroia …
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BOSTON — The grand slam is the most productive offensive game in baseball, the equivalent of a goal and two-point conversion in football or a four-point game in basketball. They’re not extremely rare, but the Boston Red Sox managed just three of them in the 162-game regular season. Then came the American League Championship Series. …
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HOUSTON – Since late last season, whenever a Boston Red Sox player smashes a home run, he’s then knocked down. a metal laundry trolley and pushed along a high-five receiver line along the length of the cramped bunker. It’s a silly but unique ritual and the players all seem to love it. In Game 2 …
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HOUSTON – There are some bat flips and runaway celebrations. And what’s next Houston Astros star Carlos Correa did it on friday night. even those belittle the Astros perhaps one can appreciate Correa’s mix of cool, showmanship, and boundless emotion after he took a pivotal comeback in a 5-4 win over the Boston Red Sox …
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Some year-round suspensions are better than others. For example, Major League Baseball’s suspension of Alex Cora could not have been applied at a more opportune time. After Cora took the lead in the Astros’ illegal sign stealing offenses in 2017, MLB suspended her for the entire 2020 season. The Boston Red Sox let him go …
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HOUSTON — It was a minor moment and went unnoticed by many who watched Game 4 of the American League division series as the condescending Houston Astros claimed over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday. But the Astros shortstop captured exactly what Carlos Correa meant to his team. When Jake Meyers, a rookie midfielder, slammed …
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