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Umpires need love, too

BY JOE McDONALD
Journal Sports Writer

BOSTON -- The game time temperature at Fenway Park tonight was a steaming 93 degrees. It felt much hotter on the field during batting practice.

If you want a true indication of how hot it is here, all you have to do is look at home-plate umpire Greg Gibson.

His blue shirt is completely soaked. Between each half-inning, Gibson drinks a complete 12-ounce bottle of water and Red Sox trainer Paul Lessard puts a cold towel around Gibson's head to cool him off.

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