It's Over For The Sox, Let's Hope Ortiz Is Okay

quote[A season slipping away took another crushing turn last night, even before a ragtag team of Red Sox was beaten, 9-0, by the Oakland Athletics.
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About 20 minutes before the first pitch, David Ortiz was scratched from a starting lineup that once again was missing Manny Ramírez. ``He isn't feeling well," said PR man Peter Chase, who had been briefed on Ortiz's condition in the dugout by Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein.

But it wasn't until after the game that manager Terry Francona revealed that Ortiz had experienced another episode involving an apparent irregular heartbeat, the one that had sent him to the hospital overnight during the recent Yankees series.]