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After a four-game sweep of the Yankees, the math may not say that the AL East race is over ? but everything else does.
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Mookie Betts doused Andrew Benintendi after the game-winning hit.
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Benintendi was as pumped up as the fans.
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David Price received a standing ovation after he was pulled from the game.
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Betts watched his fifth-inning home run leave the yard.
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Price allowed two runs and struck out five over six-plus innings.
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Even when these Red Sox shouldn?t win, they still do Nights like Sunday convince you that this is a team of destiny and dominance, like the 2013 club.
Relentless Red Sox complete sweep of Yankees Down to their final out, the Sox scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth to force extra innings and then Benintendi?s 10th-inning RBI single completed the 4-game sweep.
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Jennifer Lopez, at Fenway, sings along to ?Sweet Caroline? While her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez was in the booth covering the Red Sox-Yankees game, Jennifer Lopez grooved to ?Sweet Caroline.?
An empty building?s roof collapsed Monday on Hancock Street, snarling commuter traffic at the height of the early morning rush, officials said.
Ferry cancellations strike again on the Steamship Authority Monday?s snafus were the latest in a wave of cancellations that have dogged the Steamship Authority for months.
Keolis cancels trains, reports delays on lines south and west of Boston On what promises to be one of the hottest days of the year, commuter rail passengers south and west of Boston were dealing with cancellations and heavily crowded trains Monday.
Two lanes on Interstate 495 in Andover were closed around 10:40 a.m. Monday morning following a truck crash.
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Boston?s next on-the-rise area: the Orange Line corridor Areas surrounding the line in Charlestown, Cambridge, and Somerville are seeing lots of new office space being built or planned for construction.
Here are the stats milestones Tom Brady and other Patriots could reach this season Brady could pass Peyton Manning as all-time leader in touchdown passes.
As segregation returns to city schools, parents voice concerns The chairman of Boston?s school committee urged patience: ?There is no one silver bullet. . . . This is work that is ongoing and will continue.?
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"DJ Diesel" amped up a Seaport crowd Thursday night.
Lance Bass ?heartbroken? he couldn?t buy home featured in ?Brady Bunch? Here?s the story of a lovely land deal ? at least it would have been if Lance Bass?s offer to buy the house featured in ?The Brady Bunch? didn?t fall through.
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This was the subject of his commentary on the latest episode of ?Last Week Tonight.?
Facebook removes Alex Jones pages for hate, bullying Facebook says it has taken down four pages belonging to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for violating its hate speech and bullying policies.
?It came right up, and opened its mouth?: Great white shark breaches water below boat The encounter was enough to make even the shark expert himself jump backwards a bit.
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We are on pace to have the warmest first week of August ever in Boston.
Get ready: It could feel like 100 in some places Monday, and it will be humid A heat advisory for most of southern New England starts at 11 a.m. Monday and remains in effect for the next 33 hours.
The tornado that tore through Webster and Dudley on Saturday was the third twister to hit Massachusetts within a 10-day stretch.
Elders are worried about going into assisted living too soon ? or waiting too long.
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Permits for your moving truck can feel like one more hassle to deal with when packing up your apartment. Do you really need to bother? Yes, experts say. Yes, you do.
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A tanker truck carrying flammable material exploded near the northern Italian city of Bologna as it partially collapsed the raised roadway.
Maggie Hassan heading to Iowa, home of the presidential caucuses, later this month US Senator Maggie Hassan will be the featured speaker at an Iowa Democratic Party event in Dubuque later in the month.
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Alex Beam
There?s no evidence that Trump is an idiot, indeed quite the contrary.
Military troops and other defense personnel on certain sensitive bases and in warzone areas won?t be allowed to use fitness tracker or cellphone applications that can reveal their location.
Pepsi?s first female CEO to end 12-year run, replaced by insider Indra Nooyi is handing the PepsiCo Inc. reins to a top lieutenant in a transition that will draw attention to the dearth of prominent female CEOs in corporate America.
Opinion | Margery Eagan
Margery Eagan: Mass. Legislature fails the environment The Legislature couldn?t even pass a ban on single-use plastic bags, even though more than 80 cities and towns already have.
TSA tracking travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program Air marshals are conducting a new domestic surveillance program, tracking people as they fly and move through airports. It might be illegal.
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Appalachian odyssey: Hunting for ALS genes along a sprawling family tree Researchers have painstakingly assembled a family tree to aid their search for the genetic underpinnings of ALS.
Seattle?s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.
More about Last Seen: The Largest Unsolved Art Heist ever A true-crime podcast about the most valuable ? and confounding ? art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Rookie second-round pick Duke Dawson and practice squad returnee Ryan Lewis are focusing on little things in bid to make the team.
Willliam Gross will be sworn in as police commissioner today in Mattapan. As a kid, he was the guy who scolded buddies for stealing a bike or for swiping items at the corner store.
The late "Honeymooners" star built a mansion that reflected his belief in UFOs and the paranormal.
The former governor appeared on CNN?s ?State of the Union? and didn?t blink when Jake Tapper asked him if he would run for president.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the renewed US sanctions on Iran will be rigorously enforced and remain in place until the Iranian government radically changes course.
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The Larz Anderson Auto Museum hosted a trio of rare Pagani Huayras each worth millions of bucks.
The report arrives as the Trump administration grapples with high costs for medicines, a pocketbook issue for many Americans.
It will be Rock?s first regular TV work since ?Everybody Hates Chris.?
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Spring House Hunt: Should parents buy property in a college town? As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.
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The Big Picture
Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: the Puerto Rican Parade, Taylor Swift performing at Gillette Stadium, and celebrating fourth of July.
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