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• BOSTON -- The Chicago Cubs have traded veteran outfielder Marlon Byrd to the Boston Red Sox for Michael Bowden and cash, the teams confirmed Saturday night.
(ESPN)
• BOSTON -- Early on in the September collapse, fans started asking about Terry Franconas job security. They wont fire him, we all said, at first. Then things got worse . . . and worse . . . and the Red Sox did fire him.
(CBS Sports)
• The homer-happy New York Yankees appear to have hit Boston at the perfect time. After rallying from a nine-run deficit, the Yankees will try to complete a three-game sweep of the stumbling Red Sox on Sunday night.
(YAHOO!)
• Booed off the field as he made yet another trip to the pitchers mound, Bobby Valentine searched for something encouraging to take out of Bostons fifth consecutive loss.
(San Francisco Gate)
• BOSTON—Booed off the field as he made yet another trip to the pitchers mound, Bobby Valentine searched for something encouraging to take out of Bostons fifth consecutive loss.
(Sporting News)
• Wounded by 2½ weeks of poor pitching, spotty at-bats, clubhouse controversy and one critical injury, the Boston Red Sox on Saturday morning were close to acquiring outfielder Marlon Byrd from the Chicago Cubs, according to a report out of Boston.
(YAHOO!)
• The Yankees had overcome a nine-run deficit four times in their history, two of them coming against the Red Sox in the 1950s. That figure increased to five on Saturday.
(New York Daily News)
• Theyre not alone at the top in either category. In no-hitters, theyre tied with the Red Sox. In perfect games, theyre tied with the Yankees. But in recent years, its hard to top the zeros put up by the monochrome denizens of Chicagos South Side.
(Major League Baseball)
• BOSTON (AP) -- Jaime Gutierrez flew all the way from his home in El Salvador to attend Fenway Parks 100th anniversary celebration. Its a dream come true, the 28-year-old Red Sox fan said. Lets just say I can scratch it off my bucket list.
(Yahoo Finance)
• If it wasn't already, it now is plainly obvious: Fenway Park [map] is the Red Sox [team stats]' biggest star. To mark the occasion of its centennial anniversary, the old ballyard was feted yesterday in a pregame ceremony that hit all the appropriate notes.
(Boston Herald)