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June 16, 2007
Batting practice looked a bit different for the Red Sox today.
In recognition of the fact that the team plays in Atlanta and San Diego this coming week, the starting pitchers, minus Daisuke Matsuzaka, today’s starter, took their turns in the cage. . .
As he spoke with reporters before the game, Francona still had not received the organization report on Jon Lester’s performance Friday night at McCoy.
``By all accounts he was pretty good but I haven’t seen the broken down report,’’ Francona said. Lester went seven innings and allowed two runs. . .
Francona does not want to take credit for Julian Tavarez’ penchant for rolling the ball to first base. Tavarez did it to get an out Friday, the second time he has done so this season.
``If that’s he has to do,’’ the manager began, ``I don’t claim to understand it, but. . . I guess there’s no rest of the sentence.’’
``I’ve never seen that before. We didn’t teach him,’’ Francona said. Then he added, with a smile, ``It’s a good thing Youk is over there (at first base) not Millar.’’ It clearly was a poke at former Sox first baseman Kevin Millar, now with the Orioles. Francona smiled broadly when he said it.
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