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October 4, 2005
Maybe Manny Ramirez was double-parked. Maybe he had an early dinner reservation.
Whatever the reason, the Red Sox' cleanup hitter had no patience whatsoever at the plate in his first two at-bats Tuesday. And in each case he was batting with a runner in scoring position.
In the first, with Edgar Renteria perched at second base with two outs, Ramirez bounced the first pitch from Jose Contreras to third baseman Joe Crede for the final out of the inning.
Ramirez was maginally more patient in his other two at-bats, a pair of three-pitch groundouts to shortstop.
In the third, with runners at first and third and two outs, Ramirez again swung at Contreras's first pitch with the same result, a routine grounder to third, this one converted by Crede into an inning-ending forceout at second base.
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