Wednesday was shaping up to be a night Ceddanne Rafaela would have preferred to forget. Earlier in the evening Rafaela uncharacteristically came up empty on a diving attempt, allowing an RBI double to fall in and nearly hurting his wrist in the process. Then in the bottom of the seventh he and Jarren Duran tracked down a deep fly ball at the warning track, but nobody called for the ball, allowing it to fall in and the go-ahead run to score. Fortunately, Rafaela made the most of his last opportunity to make things right. Trailing by one with Duran on…
Author: BostonSportsNews
BALTIMORE (AP) — Ceddanne Rafaela hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night.After Keegan Akin (4-4) worked out of a jam in the eighth to preserve a one-run lead, the left-hander couldn’t contain Boston in the ninth.Jarren Duran led off with a single and Rafaela followed with a towering fly that cleared the wall in left-center.An apparent miscommunication between Duran and Rafaela helped Baltimore take a 2-1 lead in the seventh. After Baltimore’s Dylan Beavers drew a two-out walk, Dylan Carlson hit a liner that…
The Boston Red Sox will look a little different when they close their series with the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday. Per MassLive’s Christopher Smith, reliever Justin Slaten and veteran bat Rob Refsnyder will be activated from the Injured List. Additionally, recent acquisition Nathaniel Lowe will be out on paternity leave, and the Red Sox are demoting lefty Jovani Moràn to Triple-A Worcester. After missing nearly 80 games, Slaten returns to consolidate a Red Sox bullpen headlined by All-Star Aroldis Chapman. Slaten’s right shoulder inflammation has kept him off an MLB diamond since June 1, but all signs indicate that he’s…
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And then there were two. The Patriots are releasing wide receiver Javon Baker to make room for waiver claim additions, a source confirmed to the Herald. That leaves just two players from the Patriots’ 2025 NFL Draft class on the 53-man roster in quarterback Drake Maye and offensive lineman Caedan Wallace. Maye can still salvage the draft class is he winds up being a franchise quarterback. Wallace is currently last on the Patriots’ offensive line depth chart and was switched from tackle to guard this summer. Baker, who made the initial 53-man roster on Tuesday, plans to re-sign to the…
FOXBORO — Like most football fans Tuesday, Andy Borregales was glued to his phone hoping to learn about the latest roster cuts before the NFL’s 53-man roster deadline. Unlike most fans, Borregales’ social media informed him he’d kept his job. The sixth-round rookie kicker out of Miami said he saw a report on X/Twitter that fellow kicker Parker Romo, with whom he competed all training camp, had been released. That told Borregales all he needed to know about whether he was remaining in New England. “Obviously (I) got a little excited, because I’m like, ‘Alright, that means I got the…
Los Angeles Lakers megastar Luka Dončić is in Poland; as of Wednesday, so are Lakers owner Jeanie Buss and general manager Rob Pelinka. Dončić, who is in Katowice representing his native Slovenia in the opening round (group phase) of EuroBasket 2025, was visited by Buss and Pelinka, who took a lengthy flight to spend time with the talented guard. Dončić was moved by the visit, as he communicated during a press conference on Wednesday for EuroBasket. “It means a lot,” Dončić said. “It’s a long flight. I think it’s like 11-12 hours, so it means a lot, you know, for…
Less than a full day after the Patriots surprisingly opted to carry eight receivers on their initial 53-man roster, the team released veteran Kendrick Bourne. That news came with a wrinkle: ESPN’s Adam Schefter noted that the move came after Bourne had requested to be released. A day earlier, the Boston Herald’s Doug Kyed reported that safety Marcus Epps requested his release from the team on cutdown day. Typically, jobs in the NFL are hard to come by, so it was notable that both reports surfaced in a year when New England certainly didn’t have the strongest roster from top…
The Patriots are filling out their practice squad after Wednesday’s waiver claim period has ended. The Patriots are signing tight ends CJ Dippre and Gee Scott Jr. to their practice squad, per sources. Running back Terrell Jennings, center Alec Lindstrom, linebacker Cam Riley, guard Mehki Butler, outside linebackers Truman Jones and Bradyn Swinson and cornerback Miles Battle also are signing to the practice squad, per multiple reports. All eight players spent training camp with the Patriots. Swinson was Tuesday’s biggest surprise cut from the Patriots. He was selected in the fifth-round of the 2025 NFL Draft out of LSU. The…
Marco Sturm may still have been in polo shirt-and-shorts mode earlier this week, but hockey season is in sight, as mornings get crisper and yellow school buses get ready to roll. It will be Sturm’s debut season as head coach of the Boston Bruins and right now there are more questions than answers about the team. Such is life when you take over a team that finished 27th out of 32 teams. Just getting comfortable in his new second-floor office at Warrior Ice Arena on Tuesday, Sturm was not yet able to answer what all his forward lines will look…