BOSTON — Alex Cora has long said that Friday nights at Fenway Park are different. He has also long held the belief that the Red Sox, who have been a middling team for most of the last half-decade, have lost some of the inherent home-field advantage of playing at Fenway by simply puttering along. A goal for Cora and his …
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BOSTON — How did the Red Sox reward the red-hot Ceddanne Rafaela after crushing a walk-off home run in a dramatic win Saturday? By moving him up in the lineup and giving him a new position, too. Rafaela, who has played center field and hit ninth virtually all season, is hitting second and starting at second base Saturday afternoon against …
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BOSTON — Cezan Rafaela Jr., the older brother of Red Sox center fielder Ceddanne Rafaela, tweeted a gas pump emoji and fire emoji a couple of hours before Boston’s game Friday. “More fuel to the fire,” Cezan wrote in the tweet, which was in regard to his brother being snubbed for the AL All-Star team when Randy Arozarena instead got …
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