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Today's Manny file: Better than Jay

We asked you awhile ago if Manny Ramirez was a good fielding player. If the question was, Is Manny a better fielding player than Jay Payton? then the answer, at least yesterday, was yes. Payton must have had a little heartburn when he misplayed David Ortiz's third-inning fly ball into a double, but when Ramirez scorched a ball that Payton didn't seem to even begin to know what to do with, it must have really stung. Ramirez's hit scored a run. Then there was the next batter, Mike Lowell, lofting a ball to left field, high into the Fenway sky. Payton staggered before collecting the ball and avoiding any more embarrassment.

Ramirez passed Rogers Hornsby and Harmon Killebrew for 32nd place on the all-time RBI list yesterday with his 1,585th. Next up is Andre Dawson.

It was a two-hit effort for Ramirez, who broke an 0-for-9 skid at the plate.

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