One of the Boston Red Sox's rising stars was named an All-Star snub, according to a Major League Baseball insider.

Roman Anthony hit a two-run home run, Ceddanne Rafaela homered for the third straight game and the Red Sox beat the Rockies 9-3 on Monday night.

Fitts pitched into the sixth inning, and the offense backed the righthander with a three-run second and two-run fifth before padding the lead late.

That kind of day-to-day minutiae can obscure the bigger picture, distract from those once-in-a-baseball-lifetime moments: That this weekend in Denver, as the White Sox faced the Rockies, baseball’s official worst team ever was facing its upstart challenger,