Josh Reddick News

We're one quarter of the way through the season, and the Boston Red Sox have been one of MLB 's most pleasant surprises.

The right-handed reliever has a 1-0 record and an earned run average of 3.38 for the Boston Red Sox' single-A South Atlantic League team.

Josh Reddick is not ready to commit to right wrist surgery until he attempts to swing a bat, but the A's outfielder is also not ruling it out.

The Red Sox have lost closer Joel Hanrahan to season ending surgery , meaning that for the second straight season, the Red Sox have traded for a closer during the off-season and got a player who was ineffective when he has pitched and missed the majority of the season.

Papelbon has been, well, Papelbon since he left Boston. He has appeared in 83 games and has a 2.28 ERA with 100 strikeouts in 83 innings.

Despite having an overall winning record of 18-17, the A's are actually just 7-16 against teams not named the Houston Astros or Los Angeles Angels and are struggling against the bulk of their American League counterparts.

Josh Reddick is still not right a month after injuring his wrist colliding with the wall chasing a foul ball, so Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the A's will finally place him on the disabled list.

A small sample size absolutely skews numbers, but some of the performances seen thus far have indeed been both atrocious and surprising.

Or good Ubaldo, certainly in the Kansas City start a week ago, and arguably, said manager Terry Francona, in the Houston start two weeks ago, and good enough against Oakland Monday night at Progressive Field to turn the game over to the bullpen with a 4-2 lead.

Stephen Drew's fourth hit of the game, a double with two outs in the 11th inning, gave the Red Sox a 6-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins as Boston ended a three-game losing streak.

The Angels' seventh pitcher of their marathon game against the Athletics on April 29 was righthander Michael Kohn , who entered in the 16th inning with a fresh arm against a lineup of tired bodies.

Texas' Craig Gentry had an infield hit that produced two runs and later hit a two-run homer as the Rangers beat the Boston Red Sox 5-1 on Saturday.

Moss hit his second home run of the night with two outs in the 19th inning early Tuesday, giving the Oakland Athletics a 10-8 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.

The A's are hoping the return of outfielder Yoenis Cespedes today - and pitcher Dan Straily on Monday night - can shake them from their lethargy.

When the Oakland A's were in town early last week, the visiting clubhouse at Fenway had a Hadlock feel to it.

Wei-Yin Chen pitched eight strong innings, giving up only two hits to help the Orioles beat the Athletics 3-0 on Friday night.

The A's manager has always admired "The Capain" of Oakland's World Series championship teams in the early 1970s, No.

Four days after being acquired by the A's and three since he joined them, outfielder Casper Wells finally landed a start with his new club on Friday.

Tommy Milone did his part in reversing a trend of bad starting pitching recently by Oakland, tossing 6.2 innings and allowed only one unearned running against the Baltimore Orioles Friday evening to lower his ERA to 3.38 for the season.

An 11-year-old boy who was seriously injured in the Boston Marathon bombing has come back to the finish line - one day after the city re-opened Boylston Street.