The big news of the day is Manny Ramirez’s broken finger. It seems Mike Cubbage blames himself, because there wasn’t really a good reason to send Ramirez with nobody out, and he blames Ramirez, who has been told time and again not to slide hands first.
The Red Sox have been red hot of late, but this is exactly the sort of injury that can let the wind out of a team’s sales. After all, Shea Hillenbrand and Rey Sanchez and even Jose Offerman simply can’t keep up the big production, but the team relies on Ramirez to do it.
In his absence, Rickey Henderson and Trot Nixon will see some extra at bats and Nomar and perhaps Brian Daubach will see time in the cleanup hole.