Francona Urges Injection
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Red Sox manager Terry Francona wants ace starter Curt Schilling to take a painkilling shot to ensure his health for Game 1 of the AL Championship Series.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The latest Manny Ramirez mystery surfaced Monday when teammate Julian Tavarez said his close friend would arrive late at spring training and Boston manager Terry Francona said that may not be true.
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It would have been easy to take the bait. Acknowledge that, yes, September is a traditionally difficult month offensively for catchers. That the season has been wearing him down. That the injuries he rarely admits to have caught up with him, making his bat slow and his stroke impotent. Instead, Jason Varitek claimed health, blamed his eyes, and thanked, once ...
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Terry Francona remembers the dull ache of hopelessness, the sad feeling of managing a team that was destined to go nowhere in October but home. He guided the Phillies through four miserable Septembers in his only experience as a big league skipper before the Red Sox handed him the keys to their team -- and their dreams.
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U.S. midfielder Claudio Reyna is expected to be sidelined for up to two more months after aggravating a thigh injury, and has gone to Germany to see an expert.
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Commissioner Bud Selig has requested that Jason Giambi cooperate with the investigation into steroid use in baseball by the former Senator George J. Mitchell.
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Reliever Mike Timlin will make two more appearances with Triple A Pawtucket, then join the Red Sox next weekend in Arizona. That was the tentative plan outlined yesterday by manager Terry Francona , who watched Timlin pitch for the PawSox the night before.
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Hugs and celebrations over, Boston Red Sox Manager Terry Francona announced his rotation on Thursday afternoon.
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Before Astros righthander Roy Oswalt starts today&#39;s Game 4 of the NLCS, he&#39;ll need a painkiller injection for an aggravated left rib cage muscle.
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Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has asked Jason Giambi to cooperate fully with the on-going investigation into the use of illegal performance-enhancing substances in the sport.
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Red Sox manager Terry Francona said he has not yet even begun to formulate contingency plans in the event that Curt Schilling's ankle injury sidelines him for the rest of the American League Championship Series, but Pedro Martinez said he is prepared to pitch on short rest if asked.
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HOUSTON -- Before Astros righthander Roy Oswalt starts today's Game 4 of the NLCS, he'll need a painkiller injection for an aggravated left rib cage muscle.
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Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona doesn't let himself get dreamy-eyed over the potential of his starting pitchers to rack up wins if they all start clicking at once.
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Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona was ejected from Saturday night&#39;s game against the New York Yankees for arguing with the umpires about fan interference on a double that allowed the tying run to score in the sixth inning.
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DETROIT -- Manny Ram&#xED;rez was not in the starting lineup yesterday, which immediately led to speculation that the left fielder was once again preparing to pull a ripcord on a scheduled All-Star appearance. It didn't help that manager Terry Francona , because of an organizational sensitivity to medical privacy issues, was vague before the game about what ailed the 35-year-old, ...
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John Franco has been working out all winter. Sunday's exercise was a little different. "I had a great one today shoveling for five hours," he said after agreeing with the Houston Astros on a &#36;700,000, one-year contract and clearing more than a foot of snow from around his New York City home.
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BOSTON Â· Curt Schilling will walk to the mound at Yankee Stadium this evening, and regardless of whether he has had an injection to quiet the pain in his troublesome right ankle, his presence is bound to be a shot in the arm for the Red Sox.