Tara Sullivan

The beauty of sports strikes again, a reality show so unpredictable that you never really know when the exceptional is going to happen. You just try to enjoy it when it does.

Baseball has an identity crisis, and knows it, tweaking rules in recent years to shorten game times or goose offensive numbers. But those are merely Band-Aids.

The league’s statement is an absolute head-scratcher, putting the brakes on everything good about the potential sale, stifling so much remarkably positive news.

It is the first all-female broadcast team and all-female broadcast booth for a complete game in Red Sox history.

The knowledge, experience, and trials of a rookie season should be a springboard to improved play.

The Legends event is a credit to people such as Blalock, so instrumental in establishing the women’s complement to the men’s Senior Tour back in 1990.

For the Red Sox to reach the playoffs, the starting rotation needs a boost from the bats in the lineup.

Resilience? Toughness? Fight? Togetherness? Accountability? Vrabel preached it all, and the Patriots showed it all.

"I didn’t talk to my friends for two days," said the 24-year-old righthander from Walpole who led the Yankees over the Red Sox in the Wild Card Series.

It would have been so easy to cast blame, to make Kerkering the scapegoat. Instead, we got amazing examples of empathy, leadership, and kindness.