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Clubhouse Confidential

*The last thing the Red Sox need right now is some kind of bug oozing its way around the clubhouse.

When third baseman Mike Lowell woke up this morning he knew something wasn’t right, so he sent a text message to manager Terry Francona to inform him about his illness. Francona this afternoon the team’s medical staff seems to think it could stem from something Lowell ate.

“He doesn’t know if it was something he ate,” said the manager. “But he’s got activity from both ends. He’s not feeling too well.”

Lowell is at Fenway Park and is being examined by the team’s medical staff, and according to Francona, the veteran would probably receive an IV.

“It is what it is,” added Francona with a smile stealing a line from Patriots head coach Bill Belichick’s interview repertoire. “Mikey wants to try to get in there, but that to me makes no sense. He’s a great player but we’ve got a day off [today] . . . Let it get out of his system and be ready for Friday.”

Lowell has been hitting in the clean-up spot of late with Manny Ramirez (strained oblique) out of the lineup. Lowell had an outstanding game on Tuesday night against Tampa, going 4-for-5. The important thing now is to make sure he’s healthy for the weekend series against New York, and no one else in the clubhouse gets sick.

“When that does happen you worry,” said Francona, “because it goes through the whole team; that never fails.”

Posted by Joe McDonald  at 5:11 PM | Permalink