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Tom Brady agreedto a contract extensionthrough 2021 a day after his
42nd birthday. The Patriotsquarterbackis enteringhis 20th season.Brady, Patriots
agree to extension
By Nora Princiotti
GLOBE STAFF
DETROIT — As Tom Brady strolled the hallsof the Pro
FootballHall of Fame this weekend, a placehis career
should one day be commemorated, one bit of his immediate
football future was getting ironed out behind the scenes.
Brady and the Patriots agreed to a two-year contract ex-
tension Sunday, a league source told the Globe.The deal,
struck a day after Brady’s 42nd birthday, runs through the
2021 season.It’s mainimpact, though,is on the here and
now: Brady gets a raise and the Patriotsget additionalcap
flexibility in 2019.
The NFL Network reported that the total value of Brady’s
extension is $70 million. He’ll earn $23 million this season,
an $8 million raise from what he was set to earn on his old
deal.
The extensionwill make Brady, comingoff his ninthSu-
per Bowlappearanceand sixthvictory, the sixth-highest
paid player in the NFL for 2019.
“I’ve had such a great experience over a lot of years,” Bra-
dy said last week, asked aboutthe prospect of a new con-
tract. “I appreciate this team and the opportunity it gave me
in 2000. I play for a great coach, coach [Bill] Belichick, Josh
[McDaniels]and I have a great workingrelationship. I love
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In search of anelusive autographFans enjoy the game of tryingto land a signature from Brady
By NickKelly
GLOBECORRESPONDENT
FOXBOROUGH— PittsburghSteelers quarterbackBen
Roethlisberger didn’t need to warm up before a 2016home
gameagainst the Patriots because a kneeinjury had him
sidelined. So he had a different priority before the game: ac-
quiring a wall decoration for his home office.
Wearing street clothes on Heinz Field, Roethlisberger
approached Tom Brady.
“I’ve never done this before,” Roethlisberger told the Pa-
triotsquarterback,“but I would love to get a jersey at some
point.”
“Sure, I’d love to,” Brady replied. “Let’s do it.”
Add Roethlisberger, a two-time Super Bowlchampion,
to the extensive list of people who wantsuchan item, or at
the very least a Brady autograph. Most people, however, are
not an NFL quarterback who can walk up to Brady before a
game. The closeproximity to the field spectators enjoydur-
ing trainingcampprovidesperhapsthe best opportunity
for the average fan, but opportunity usuallydoes not trans-
late to success.
BRADY, PageCPlays of the weakEight straightlosses as Pricegets poundedBy Peter Abraham
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Yankees 7
Red SoxNEWYORK — It was
only a week ago, after
the Red Sox tookthree
of four gamesfromthe Yankees at Fen-
way Park, that anything seemedpossi-
ble overthe finaltwo months of the
season.
The Sox were well positionedin the
wild-cardrace and had a chanceof
trackingdown the Yankees in the
American LeagueEast.
Oncethey picked up a relief pitcher
or two at the trade deadline — as
seemed obviouswouldbe the case — it
wouldget even moreinteresting.
Now, after a 7-4 loss against the
Yankees on Sunday night, it’s seeming-
ly a question of how far this teamwill
fall and if anyone will lose their job as
a result.
All that in just a week.
David Price added to the mounting
misery by giving up seven runs before
he came out of the game in the third
inning. That sentthe Sox to their
eighth consecutiveloss.
“We’ve got a lot of workto do.
We’re in a big hole,” manager Alex Co-
ra said.
The losingstreak is the longest for
the Sox since 2015.At 59-55 — that’s
one moreloss than all of last season —
the Sox are 14½gamesbehind the
Yankees in the division after a four-
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HITS TEAMB.A.5. 156
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HITS TEAMB.A.3. 100
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HITSTEAMB.A.For Cora, encore hasn’t been in cardsNEWYORK — It
was only the
third inning
Sunday night
when Alex Cora
emerged from
the dugout to re-
moveyet anoth-
er ineffective
Red Sox starting pitcher from a game.
It only felt much later.
The combination of an inexplicable
nearly rain-less rain delay that had
pushed first pitch back by more than
an hourand an interminable inning in
which the Yankees had already batted
around against David Price took care
of that, so by the time the manager fi-
nally pulled Price from the carnage, it
felt moremerciful than cruel.
Could Cora have rescued Price ear-
lier? Sure. Six straight two-out hits
that werebookended by walkshad put
the Sox in a seven-run hole, well on
their way to a shocking four-game
sweep in the Bronx, a 7-4 final that is
their eighth (and counting)loss in a
row.ShouldCora have rescued Price
earlier? Maybe. Price’s history against
the nemesis Yankees all but guaran-
teed that any sign of trouble would
snowball into another disaster.
But Cora did neither, leaving Price
to the wolves until that second walk,
when he gave way to Darwinzon Her-
nandez, who quickly recorded the fi-
nal out.“We’re one pitch away from finish-
ing that, and knowing where we were
bullpen-wise, we were hoping for him
to finish that inning and go out again,”
Cora said.
Go ahead and give Price a prime
seat at the table of bad Boston pitch-
ing, joining Chris Sale, Eduardo Ro-
driguez, and Brian Johnson, who were
similarly ineffective here against the
Yanks. Rick Porcello and Andrew
Cashner were only lucky to be the ones
who missed them this time around.
But it’s time to save a seat for Cora,
too. The manager just can’t seem to
find the answer to kick his teaminto
gear.
I thought he’d found it last weekat
home, when three straight wins
SULLIVAN,PageCCertainlynot lackingfor lowlightsNEWYORK — The
beat goes on. The
beatings go on. Eight
days a week. All of
them losses. The divi-
sion is gone and the
wild-card quest is
starting to look like
Kilimanjaro.
The reeling Red Sox lost their
eighth straight Sunday night at Yankee
Stadium, a 7-4 defeat at the hands of
A.J. Happ and a Yankee lineup that
looked like something Aaron Boone
would bring to Fort Myers in March.
It was Happ vs. Hapless. The Red
Sox are 14½ games behind the Yan-
kees (16 in the loss column!) and a full
6½ out of wild-card contention.
The Game Ball for this one goes to
the inimitable David Price, who told
us that he “hold[s] all the cards” after
he should have been MVPof last year’s
World Series. Marching in lockstep
with the soft parade of stinky Sox
starters, Price was routed for seven
runs on nine hits and two walks in 2„
innings.
“It’s been tough for myself and the
rest of our starters,’’ Price said after
the loss. “We have a very good team, 1
through 25. It’s just that some of us
haven’t had good seasons to this
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David Price’s nightstarted withan AaronJudge solo homerin the first, and didn’t much lookup fromthere.ADAM HUNGER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alex Cora had no choicebut to pull David Price after he allowedseven
runson ninehits — includingtwo HRs — in 2„ inningsSunday night.BRADY’S NEWDEAL
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