It turns out that the Red Sox have yet another player who is grinding it out through a significant injury. First baseman Mike Lowell learned on Friday that he has been playing for the last couple of weeks with a non-displaced fracture in one of his left ribs.
Mike Lowell knows that the numbers don't look too good since a season-ending injury to Kevin Youkilis allowed him to be Boston's primary first baseman, beginning on Aug. 3.
Back on April 10, just hours before he would play his first game in 2010, Mike Lowell told reporters that he was "probably" going to retire at the end of the season. After Sunday's 5-0 win over the Blue Jays, Lowell sounded even more like a man who won't play in the Major Leagues in 2011 and beyond.
The Red Sox never fell behind on Tuesday night, and Mike Lowell put them ahead for good with a solo homer over the wall in left with two outs in the eighth to drop the Blue Jays, 7-5.
In light of the season-ending injury to Kevin Youkilis, Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein is monitoring the market for left-handed-hitting first basemen who could complement Mike Lowell at first base.
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