By R.B. FALLSTROM (ST. LOUIS, AP) — Lance Lynn faced the minimum the first four innings, then got yanked after encountering trouble against the Boston Red Sox lineup in the next two innings. The rest...

By RONALD BLUM (BOSTON, AP) — One is 22, brimming with vigor and riding a hot streak in the dawn of his career, the other is 36, injected with a painkiller just to make it on the field and refusing...

By RONALD BLUM (BOSTON, AP) — Nearly a decade ago, the Boston Red Sox reversed The Curse. Now they're even getting key calls turned around in the World Series, leaving them on the verge of an opening...

By BEN WALKER (BOSTON, AP) — David Freese launched a high drive to deep left-center field, watching the whole way until the ball loudly thwacked off the Green Monster. "That's my Wall ball!" he hooted...

(ST. LOUIS, AP) — An attorney for Albert Pujols has discounted another lawyer's suggestion that Pujols and former Cardinals slugger Jack Clark take lie-detector tests to settle Pujols' defamation lawsuit...

By RONALD BLUM (NEW YORK, AP) — Ryan Braun stood on a spring training field and proclaimed he was innocent of using banned testosterone. "I would bet my life," he said back then, "that this substance...

By DAVE CAMPBELL (MINNEAPOLIS, AP) — The Minnesota Twins found all kinds of opportunities to win this game, and the series, against the Kansas City Royals. Chris Parmelee was in the middle of most of...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kyle Gibson wasn't dominant in his first major league start, but he still pitched well enough to make a bit of Minnesota Twins history and give the team a reason to be optimistic...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Kansas City Royals have won the last six games started by James Shields, though it's hard to tell by looking at his record. "I think my two-month anniversary was coming up of...

By DAVE CAMPBELL (MINNEAPOLIS, AP) — Kansas City's pitching staff owns by far the best earned run average in the league, and Jeremy Guthrie turned in another more-than-serviceable start. The Royals,...