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June 18, 2007
Journal photo/Bob Breidenbach
In case you missed it in today's photo gallery, here's a picture by Bob Breidenbach of Manny Ramirez celebrating his home run with a pretty girl in the front row.
Ramirez's two home runs over the weekend provide some hope that the Red Sox may finally be about to get the power surge that they've been lacking lately from the middle of their lineup. The Saturday home run, which gave the Red Sox a 1-0 win, ended a stretch of 50 at-bats without a home run for Ramirez. But, as Steve Krasner writes today in his Inside the Game column, a failure by Ramirez to hustle on a third-inning play yesterday cost the Red Sox at least a run. Ramirez failed to run hard on his hard grounder to second baseman Ray Durham. That gave Durham, who had to hit the ground to field the ball, enough time to roll to a stop, collect himself and throw for the out from one knee.
On the other hand, Ramirez did have a nice hustle play on Friday night, getting quickly down the first-base line to prevent a double play on his bases-loaded, no-out groundball in the third inning. The effort led Jerry Remy to quip that Ramirez has pretty good speed, when he chooses to run hard. Unfortunately that play didn't make a whole lot of difference, as Kevin Youkilis did hit into a double play on the next at-bat to end the threat with only a run across.
Posted by Mike McDermott 
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