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**Mike Lowell and Manny Ramirez aren't the only Red Sox not in the lineup due to injury. Jacoby Ellsbury is nursing a mild tweak to his left wrist. He ran into the center field wall on Monday night. He played Tuesday and certainly could've played tonight but Terry Francona is taking things cooly with a Yankee Invasion on the horizon.
``A couple years ago he had something in the same wrist and it lingered. We don't want this to linger,'' said Francona.

**Clay Buchholz hasn't pitched since last Thursday in Baltimore. When will the rookie flash toe the rubber again? Francona cannot say.
``I'm fighting that right now on how and when to use him,'' said Francona.

**PawSox manager Ron Johnson was expected to join the Sox by this time and remain with the team for the remainder of the season. However, an injury to his daughter has delayed his arrival, likely until Friday's game against New York.

** The Red Sox are 108-57 (.654) all-time against the Rays and 10-4 in the series this season with four matchups remaining. The teams have both won a game in the 3-game set and Boston hasn't lost a series at home against Tampa since July of 1999.

**Boston's Single A team in Lancaster, Cal., was eliminated in the playoffs Tuesday night by Lake Elsinore.

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