News - Paul Byrd
(Sports Network) - Paul Byrd gets to face the team he started the 2008 season with when the veteran hurler takes the mound for the playoff-bound Boston Red Sox in tonight's clash with the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park.
Jose Guillen and Jay Gibbons were suspended Thursday for the first 15 days of next season for violating baseball's drug policy. The penalties are an indication how the sport might treat players named in the Mitchell report, which could be released next week.
Cleveland pitcher Paul Byrd, whose win in Game 4 of the ALCS moved the Indians within one victory of the World Series, bought nearly $25,000 worth of human growth hormone and syringes from 2002 to 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday.
Led by a throwback pitcher who looks as if he stepped out of their 1948 team photo, the Cleveland Indians moved one win from another crack at winning an elusive World Series title.
Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield makes his first start of the 2007 postseason tonight with Boston trailing the Indians two-games-to-one in the best-of-seven American League championship series. Cleveland is coming off a 4-2 victory in last night's Game 3.
