It’s been almost a month since the Red Sox shocked the baseball world with a blockbuster trade that sent Rafael Devers to San Francisco, and some executives are still scratching their heads. In Jayson Stark’s list of first-half takeaways at The Athletic,

The Boston Red Sox are facing a light portion of their schedule and taking advantage of it. Alex Cora's club has scored 76 runs and hit 16 home runs in the past nine games and will try for a fifth win in a row when a three-game series against the visiting Colorado Rockies continues on Tuesday night.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday that a cargo ship they struck with gunfire, rockets and explosive-laden remote-controlled boats had sunk in the Red Sea, after their first known attack on the high seas this year.