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In a rare Fort Myers spring training night game on Thursday at JetBlue Park, Twins righty Mick Abel and Red Sox right-hander Brayan Bello were locked in a pitcher's duel after three innings. Neither had allowed a run, with Abel collecting four strikeouts on swings and Bello notching five ...

It was 39 years ago that the Hall of Fame pitcher Bert Blyleven took the mound for the Minnesota Twins against the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 2 of the 1987 World Series. Armed with a fastball-curveball mix that led to the fifth-most strikeouts (3,701) by a pitcher in baseball history, ...

Home Base Florida, a local nonprofit founded by the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital dedicated to supporting Veterans and Military Families impacted by the invisible wounds of war, invites the media to a celebration of the Red Sox Foundation partnership with Home Base ...

Amid all the turmoil and changes the Twins have gone through this past year, they may have found a gem underneath their rubble of a season last year. It's the kind of gem that can change a team's fortunes. If Mick Abel can give the Twins what he showed Sunday in Fort Myers and showed in ...

No Bregman, no Devers, no problem for the Boston Red Sox and the spring training seats at JetBlue Park were sold out in Fort Myers for the team's official spring training home opener against the defending American League champion Blue Jays on Sunday. Yet winning the game on Sunday was a ...