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FENWAY FUN: Red Sox enjoy 5-2 win in home opener

BOSTON (AP) — Marcelo Mayer and Willson Contreras both hit home runs as part of a three-run sixth inning and the Boston Red Sox snapped a five-game losing streak with a 5-2 win in their home opener over the San Diego Padres on Friday. Caleb Durbin added an RBI single in the fourth inning to ...

TIMELY TURNAROUND: Sox’ Durbin turns boos into cheers

BOSTON (AP) — Caleb Durbin experienced something in his first game at Fenway Park as a member of the Boston Red Sox that few others have before him. He was booed and cheered in the same afternoon. Durbin, who entered the day 0 for 18 from the plate during the Red Sox’s first six games, ...

NCAA WOMEN: UCLA reaches final with 51-44 triumph

PHOENIX (AP) — Lauren Betts had 16 points and made a huge block late, and UCLA withstood a late charge by Texas on Friday night for a 51-44 win to reach the women’s NCAA Tournament national championship game for the first time. Manhandled by eventual national champion UConn in their first ...

Fans get extra baseball but Fisher Cats drop opener in 13

MANCHESTER – Eddie Micheletti Jr. and Sean Keys each blasted home runs in their Double-A debuts, but the New Hampshire Fisher Cats fell on Opening Night to the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, 10-9, Friday night from Delta Dental Stadium. Trailing 7-4, New Hampshire rallied in the home half of the ...

Celtics shoot their way from the start to rout of Bucks

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jaylen Brown scored 26 points, Jayson Tatum added 23, and the hot-shooting Boston Celtics capitalized on another fast start in a 133-101 victory over the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night. Tatum was an assist shy of his second straight triple-double despite ...