When Mama's happy, everybody's happy, the old saying goes. And so it is with the Red Sox that when David "Big Papi" Ortiz is hitting and driving in runs, good things are happening for Boston. ...more

October 18, 2008

Ferg's Sports Bar and Grill, at 1320 Central Ave., is party central for the Tampa Bay Rays baseball games, played across the street at Tropicana Field. ...more

October 17, 2008

Up seven runs with seven outs to go, the Tampa Bay Rays blow their first chance at the big dance. Bad baseball, or was something else in play here? Baseball fans and players are notoriously superstitious. ...more

October 17, 2008

Star Of The Game: J.D. Drew Drew led the Red Sox's dramatic 8-7 comeback victory against the Rays on Thursday night in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. Drew's two-run homer in the eighth inning pulled Boston within 7-6. In the ninth with two outs, Drew's RBI single drove in the winning run. Drew's heroics overshadowed Rays center fielder B.J. Upton, who smashed his sixth home run of the playoffs. Only Barry Bonds (eight in 2002), Carlos Beltran (eight in 2004) and Troy Glaus (seven in 2002) have more in a single postseason. Overall, Upton went 3-for-4 with four RBIs. ...more

October 17, 2008

Major League Baseball has agreed to postpone the first pitch of Game 6 of the World Series by about 15 minutes in order to enable Fox to join CBS and NBC in running Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's 30-minute infomercial Oct. 29. ...more

October 16, 2008

Wary of acknowledging the gravity of the situation, the Rays are getting creative to keep themselves from dwelling on the fact that they're one win away from the World Series. ...more

October 16, 2008

History shows that pushing the Red Sox onto the elimination cliff isn't so difficult. ...more

October 16, 2008

Martin Fennelly sits down with Marc Lancaster, Rays beat writer for the Tampa Tribune, at Fenway Park in Boston to discuss the American League Championship Series between Tampa Bay and the Boston Red Sox, where the Rays lead 3-1 after a 13-4 victory Tuesday night. ...more

October 15, 2008

WTSP, Channel 10, sports anchor Justin Allen has been sidelined in a Boston hospital with a bacterial infection, but he expects to be back in action soon. ...more

October 15, 2008

The Boston Red Sox's season isn't quite up in flames — but a small fire at one of the most visible landmarks near Fenway Park can't be a good omen. ...more

October 15, 2008