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The Red Sox retained one of the key members of their minor league system yesterday when director of player development Mike Hazen declined to join the San Diego Padres as assistant general manager.

T he Red Sox [ team stats ] retained one of the key members of their minor league system yesterday when director of player development Mike Hazen declined to join the San Diego Padres as assistant general manager.

Aaron Hill of the Toronto Blue Jays is the best defensive second baseman in baseball.

The 105th World Series starts one week from Wednesday, and the Phillies and Yankees are each poised to clinch a pennant now and meet in a boisterous Jersey Turnpike Series.

This year, jockobilia peddler Phil Castinetti of SportsWorld in Saugus reports he's gotten his mitts on three pairs of Red Sox BVDs which he intends to throw up on eBay today.

With the loss by the Red Sox in the American League Division Series to end another local season, it makes one fan wonder what memento or two a collector could save as a remembrance of the past season.

Guerrero hit a two-out, two-run single off in the ninth inning and the Angels rallied past Boston 7-6 in Game 3 Sunday, advancing to the AL championship series with their first postseason sweep in franchise history.

NAHEIM, Calif. - It used to be the Red Sox [ team stats ] never wanted to talk about history, for no other reason than so much of it was pretty bad.

Share + Oct 8, 2009 10:09 pm US/Eastern Read: Dan Roche's Blog The Red Sox will be in Anaheim on Thursday night to begin their series against the Angels in the American League Divisional Series.

After two games against their old whipping boys, the Boston Red Sox faced these unexpected and uncomfortable facts: one run, too few hits and few games left.

As if the Boston Red Sox have not tormented the Angels enough by beating them in the 2004, 2007 and 2008 American League division series, each of those matchups featured sudden-death victories in Fenway Park.

It took one hit to validate everything that we knew nights ago. It took one pitch to cripple something that was born years ago.

Photo Wire Los Angeles Angels shortstop Erick Aybar celebrates after catching a pop-up by Boston Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia for the final out as the Angels won Game 3 of an American League baseball division series 7-6 in Boston, Sunday, Oct.

John Lackey pounded the ball into his glove when he spotted Angels manager Mike Scioscia coming out of the dugout in the eighth inning last night.

Jered Weaver pitched brilliantly in his second career postseason start, and the Angels manufactured a three-run seventh inning to move one win away from the American League Championship Series on Friday night with a 4-1 decision over the Red Sox at Angel Stadium.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to playoff baseball. Tonight is game one of the American League Divisional Series between the Red Sox and Angels.

Dustin Pedroia agreed that it's starting to seem like a routine. For the third year in a row, in the third year of the Woodland native's MLB career, his Boston Red Sox will face the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the American League Division Series.

The Red Sox shied away from calling the change a demotion, emphasizing instead they wanted to get their top on-base guys higher in the order.

Here they are again, getting ready to tackle what has become their time of year.

Jed Lowrie hit his first career grand slam to cap a five-run sixth inning as Boston outslugged Cleveland, 12-7, in the season and series finale for both clubs from Fenway Park.