The Boston Red Sox shipped Rafael Devers out of town because he refused to take accountability for his behavior this season, but one of the players they got in return, reliever Jordan Hicks, is pulling the same act after melting down on Monday.

“I mean, a long day in general,” Hicks told reporters. “But obviously I got fully hot [before the delay] and ran on the field and felt really good to go. Then they pulled the tarp, I came back in, sat for an hour, got hot again, and didn’t really have my legs and didn’t know where the zone was.”

Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow put lofty expectations on Jordan Hicks after the Rafael Devers trade. He's not quite lived up to the billing.

Brooks Lee hit a pair of two-run home runs — off Justin Wilson in the seventh and off Jorge Alcala in the ninth, when the lead was large enough to try to avoid using Chapman — to turn a potential blowout into a late-and-close situation.

The Boston Red Sox are in a position to add to their team in the coming days, but that does not mean they won't be willing to part ways with any of their current contributors.

MLB insider Jim Callis believes the Boston Red Sox are going to let go of minor-league position players, while holding onto pitchers, at the trade deadline.

Aroldis Chapman, the Boston Red Sox’ All-Star closer, left Sunday’s game with an injury, but his teammates stepped up to help close out the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-3 to take the weekend series from the reigning World Series champions.

When Ceddanne (Rafaela) dove and touched second base, I mean that was probably the craziest I’ve seen this crowd this year so far."