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The Red Sox are falling like snowflakes on a mid-April Boston night. The latest is first-baseman
Mike Napoli—
who dislocated his left ring-finger with an ill-advised head-first slide into second base. The unnatural right-angle of the finger begged the question of whether it was broken. It was not. He might even play tonight. How hockey player-like of Napoli [White House pronunciation: NA-
POLE-EE]. His
absence in the ninth inning last night (and
Mike Carp's
presence) likely led to the 2-1 defeat when Carp could not pick an errant
Xander Bogaerts throw.