Francona not reordering
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CLEVELAND - Jason Varitek will be back behind the plate and Bobby Kielty will be in right field tonight for the Red Sox when the American League Championship Series resumes with Game 5. Those are the only lineup changes alluded to by manager Terry Francona yesterday. Jacoby Ellsbury ? Barring a last-minute surprise, the rookie won't face Indians lefthander C.C. ...
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Bob Watson has taken his name off the list of potential general manager candidates for the Washington baseball club. Watson says he met with Major League Baseball president Robert DuPuy on Wednesday and declined
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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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Tim Wakefield Will Start Game 1 of World Series for Boston Against St. Louis on Saturday Night. Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona faces reporters during a news conference at Fenway Park, in Boston, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004.
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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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After Red Sox manager Terry Francona said yesterday afternoon that Wednesday's starter was TBA (to be announced) - ordinarily, it would be Daisuke Matsuzaka's day - the Japanese righthander informed Japanese reporters he had been told he would be pitching Saturday.
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The date of Manny Ram&#xED;rez's return is essentially up to him, Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. Ram&#xED;rez has missed the team's last 19 games, including last night, since straining his left oblique Aug. 28 in New York.
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Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona walked into his clubhouse Thursday morning and it was the same place he&#39;s enjoyed all season.
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This isn't the first time Terry Francona has come back to Fenway Park with a two-game lead in a playoff series.
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For years, members of the Baseball Writers Association of America have been criticized by ex-players for not voting in enough candidates to the Hall of Fame. So for the third consecutive time, when current Hall of Famers had the chance to vote on second-chance candidates as part of the Veterans Committee, what happened? Again, nobody made it.
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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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First, Marco Scutaro. Now, Manny Ram&#xED;rez. It's not supposed to work this way. A starting pitcher is not supposed to pitch seven or eight innings and give up one solo home run -- and take the loss. It's certainly not supposed to happen two starts in a row.
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Terry Francona didn't need to say anything, since Manny Ram&#xED;rez wasn't here to begin with and no one would have been the wiser, but the Red Sox manager said yesterday Ram&#xED;rez had been granted permission to spend the weekend at his South Florida home.
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Terry Francona left the telling to bench coach Brad Mills. The Red Sox manager didn't feel the need to relay the news - that Jacoby Ellsbury would be starting Game 6 of the American League Championship Series - to the rookie. He didn't expect Ellsbury to be nervous ("I don't see hives or anything down there," he joked), and he ...
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BOSTON, Oct. 22 -- This much Terry Francona knows: Josh Beckett will start Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday night at Fenway Park against Colorado's Jeff Francis. Beyond that, he and his staff need to collect their thoughts.
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Terry Francona felt he had to find out last night whether he could trust Eric Gagn&#xE9; in October. How much that costs him in September remains to be seen.
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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.