Red Sox Listening to Fire Brand?

Alan Draper

Sports Editor

August 20 2005 1 min read

Two pitches before Trot Nixon lined a ball that hit Foulke in the pitching elbow during the closer’s first simulated game, the right-hander jammed outfielder Adam Stern on a pitch that Stern popped up.
The contact further aggravated Stern’s balky right thumb, which in the past two weeks has felt strange to him and has had a decreased range of motion. Stern was not expected to play in last night’s game against the Los Angeles Angels, and he could be headed for the 15-day disabled list if the thumb does not react well to the injury.

In my It Is Time piece, I said that, “It is time to bench Millar, turn him into a backup first baseman… Every game where we don

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