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Angel Hernandez may have made another bad call. The veteran umpire — labeled “as bad as there is” by Pedro Martinez following a disastrous 2018 Yankees-Red Sox playoff game — allegedly eavesdropped on an MLB investigative call last July, which focused on a 14-minute delay during a game between the Red Sox and Rays due …

It’s a dream venue for any musician — just, without the deafening cheers of 38,000 fans. Bruce Springsteen and American Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys will perform together at Boston’s Fenway Park for a free livestreamed event called “Streaming Outta Fenway.” The gig will be broadcast worldwide on Friday, May 29 at 6 p.m. Eastern …

There’s one way Alex Verdugo could be considered a steal by the Red Sox, regardless of how he performs: if Mookie Betts never plays a game for the Dodgers. The blockbuster trade went down in February, with Betts, in his final year before free agency, and David Price expected to help chase a 2020 World …

Think of the major league players in a clubhouse like the cool kids in high school. The world revolves around them. Their approval, friendship and respect are collateral in that universe. I have seen owners gravitate toward star clusters in clubhouses, GMs dumb down their language, curse and spit to try to be one of …

Was J.T. Watkins just another scapegoat? At the conclusion of MLB’s investigation into the Red Sox sign-stealing scandal, nearly all responsibility for the endeavor was pinned on the 30-year-old replay operator, Watkins, who has been suspended for the entire 2020 season and banned from working in the replay room in 2021. Watkins, the only individual …

The Red Sox were no Astros in the opinion of MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred. The commissioner ruled Wednesday that in response to the Red Sox’s sign-stealing during their 2018 championship season, the team’s video replay system operator is the only current Red Sox person penalized. That person, J.T. Watkins, is suspended for the entire 2020 …

Don’t count on Dustin Pedroia making a miraculous return once baseball’s coronavirus-induced suspension finally ends. The Red Sox great, whose left knee has ailed him since Manny Machado famously slid into it with his spikes in 2017, isn’t “at a point where he’s thinking to be ready to come back and join us,” interim manager …

More than three months after suspensions were levied regarding the Houston Astros’ 2017 sign-stealing scandal, results of a similar investigation into the Boston Red Sox still have not been announced. Multiple members of the 2018 Red Sox have come out this week to express doubts that the probe will reveal violations as substantial as those …

Even as Hank Steinbrenner continued to channel his father and unload on the Red Sox or small market teams or Joe Torre, it was becoming more obvious as the 2008 season unspooled that the louder Steinbrenner son was not going to run the Yankees. It was a vital pivot point in the history of the …

Hank Steinbrenner never was afraid to stoke the flames of his team’s rivalry with the Red Sox. Steinbrenner, the Yankees general partner and co-chairperson who died Tuesday at 63 after a long battle with an illness not related to the coronavirus, wasn’t afraid to speak his mind on any topic, much like his father George. …