After a wild flurry of moves at the MLB trade deadline, the Houston Astros (62-47) and Boston Red Sox (59-51) link up at Fenway Park on Friday for the first game of a weekend series. The Astros made a ...

The Red Sox didn’t play Thursday, and still, they lost ground in the playoff race. In part, that’s because the Yankees did play and won. But the bigger issue was how much better the competition got ...