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BOSTON — Since spring training, Alex Cora has been preaching about the importance of the Red Sox again making Fenway Park a tough place for visiting teams to play. That hadn’t been the case in recent seasons, as the Red Sox weathered three straight years in which they failed to finish with a winning record. Too often, either the ballpark …

Fenway Park produces home runs like no other ballpark. They don’t get more Fenway than this. During the sixth inning of Monday’s game between the Red Sox and Cleveland Guardians, Boston shortstop Trevor Story hit a fly ball down the right-field line. Advertisement Guardians right fielder Jhonkensy Noel made a play on the ball near the foul pole that at …

BOSTON — For anyone savoring potentially memorable firsts, Friday’s Red Sox game against the Pirates, a 4-2 win for Pittsburgh, had quite a few. It was Pirate righty Paul Skenes’ first time pitching at Fenway Park, his first time facing Red Sox promising rookie Roman Anthony and obviously his first matchup against Payton Tolle, Boston’s 22-year-old lefty, who was making …

BOSTON (AP) — Marlins right fielder Dane Myers felt like a fan at Fenway Park was heckling him beyond what was appropriate, verbal abuse that began before he hit a tying homer in the ninth inning to help Miami rally past the Boston Red Sox on Sunday. Myers said the heckling began in the eighth when the Red Sox led …

BOSTON (AP) — Striking Fenway Park vendors banged on drums and shouted “Don’t buy food!” while walking a picket line outside the home of the Boston Red Sox before Friday night’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hundreds of Aramark workers marched along the street behind the team’s right field concourse before the series opener, carrying round picket signs decorated …

For the first time in Fenway Park’s 113-year history, concession and restaurant workers went on strike Friday as the Boston Red Sox begin a three-game series with the Los Angeles Dodgers.Members of UNITE HERE Local 26, who work for Aramark, providing food services in the historic ballpark and the neighboring MGM Music Hall, had set a strike deadline of noon …

BOSTON — Alex Cora has long said that Friday nights at Fenway Park are different. He has also long held the belief that the Red Sox, who have been a middling team for most of the last half-decade, have lost some of the inherent home-field advantage of playing at Fenway by simply puttering along. A goal for Cora and his …