AP Just what Sawx fans need: more reason for panic.
According to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com, first baseman Adrian Gonzalez admitted before Saturday’s game against the Rays that he’s feeling weakness in his surgically-repaired right shoulder.
Gonzalez does not expect to miss any time, but he acknowledged to Rosenthal that the shoulder fatigue is costing him some of his opposite-field power and may continue to give him grief through the end of the season (whether that comes in late September or late October for the Wild Card-leading Red Sox).
Gonzalez entered Saturday’s action with a healthy .996 September OPS, so it’s not like he’s been stagnant. But he hasn’t hit an opposite-field homer since August 25 and may have to continue making adjustments.
The Red Sox lost to the Rays on Saturday evening and hold only a three-game Wild Card lead.
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- proudlycanadian - Sep 17, 2011 at 7:25 PM
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The Sox lost today. The Rays are back on script. Baltimore has an interesting role as a supporting actor.
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- jimbo1949 - Sep 17, 2011 at 8:05 PM
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O’s are smacking the Angels around this weekend. They’ve got 3 and 3 left with Boston. Irrelevant 4 at Detroit next weekend.
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- theskinsman - Sep 17, 2011 at 8:02 PM
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ARRRGH. This is like watching my Redskins the last couple of decades. I think it’s 50-50 the Sox make the playoffs.If they don’t get get Youkilis,Lowrie and Bucholz back, it looks like another long winter for Red Sox Nation.
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- royalsfaninfargo - Sep 17, 2011 at 8:27 PM
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I am in no way a Rays fan, but I am pulling for them in the wildcard. Moore looked very sharp today.
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- urteamsux52 - Sep 17, 2011 at 9:55 PM
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GO RAYS, Redsox have 7against O’s Rays got 7 against Worest team in MLB the yankees suck just as much as redsox do. Both cities have ugly chicks with big noses and male voices. They might as well be from canada oh yeah those chicks suck too Go Rays and Tampa chicks
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- dapperdan50 - Sep 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM
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Thank you for your incisive analysis. I hadn’t really looked at baseball performance that way.
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- dailyrev - Sep 18, 2011 at 10:43 AM
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Don’t bother, it’s just another southern right wing smokescreen: they’ve never gotten over the fact that it was the Dixie Chicks that dared to call down the Bush regime.
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- dirtyharry1971 - Sep 18, 2011 at 7:24 PM
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Gonzalez should just have big papi whip him up one of those milkshakes, he will be fine
