Tim Wakefield News

No small point. It's Lowell's health or lack thereof that will likely determine whether the Red Sox trade for a hitter.

Tim Wakefield's knuckleball danced its way to eight strikeouts last night. Frustrated by Tim Wakefield making the All-Star team, baseball fans? Think his spot should have gone to someone else, like that ever-popular Texas Ranger, Kevin Millwood? Well, take a wave at the wacky wobbler he winged last night.

I'm going to begin by prefacing: I love Tim Wakefield. He has been a "soldier" for the Red Sox.

When the teams were announced Sunday, fans were overjoyed to hear that Wakefield would be among six Sox players heading to St.

Pedroia spent the night in the room with his wife - "It's good, I'm small, I slept in a little bed," he said - but now that some of his wife's family has arrived in town, they have more support and he felt better about rejoining his team.

First-time All-Star Tim Wakefield earned his AL-leading 11th victory, and David Ortiz homered and drove in four runs to lead the Boston Red Sox over the Oakland Athletics 5-4 Wednesday night.

The Rays are wearing T-shirts, putting up billboards, setting up laptops at the stadium and joking about reassigning interns to voting duty in an effort to get 1B Carlos Pena elected as the final member of the AL All-Star team.

Baseball wives are the unsung heroes of the game. Theirs is a life of sacrifice in which they are alone a lot, raise children by themselves too often and live too much in the shadow of famous husbands.

This is the point where I'm supposed to whine about the selections for Baseball's All-Star Game and identify which worthy players were left off the respective AL and NL rosters.

Josh Beckett became Boston's second 10-game winner, fellow All-Star Jason Bay hit his 20th homer and the Red Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 5-2 on Tuesday night.

Rangers ace Kevin Millwood is one of several deserving players who were left off the American League roster for the All-Star Game.

Tim Wakefield was in the weight room when Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell ducked his head in Sunday morning and said that the knuckleballer was wanted in Terry Francona's office.

No knuckleballer - not Hoyt Wilhelm, not Phil Niekro, not Belmont's Wilbur Wood - ever has been as dominant over a stretch of time as Wakefield was in 1995 when he went 14-1 at the beginning of his Red Sox career.

One foot, one darn foot and Nick Green's eighth inning wall-banging double would have carried OVER the Wall and into the seats, putting the Red Sox ahead by a run with Papelbon ready for the ninth instead of tying the game, a game that the Boston Red Sox were defeated by the Seattle Mariners by a score of 7-6 in eleven innings.

Halladay, Hill headed to mid-summer classic Derek Jeter, seen hitting an RBI single against the Mets last Saturday, was out of the Yankees' lineup Wednesday with an ankle injury.

Rockies starter Jason Marquis is congratulated by coach Tom Runnells after Marquis pitched a two-hitter to become the first 10-game winner in the National League .

In a game that was billed as a duel between possible All-Star starting pitchers, it was the relievers that held the key to victory.

Wakefield's outing will be his final one before Major League Baseball announces the rosters Sunday afternoon for the 80th annual All-Star Game in St.

Red Sox starter Tim Wakefield delivers a knuckler in the first inning. Wakefield allowed five runs on 10 hits in eight innings of work, but he did not get the decision as Boston lost 7-6 in 11 innings.

Tim Wakefield has been good, if not great, for the Boston Red Sox. He has stepped up big when it matters the most and I give him all the props in the world.