By Amalie Benjamin Globe Staff / August 13, 2008 Mike Lowell struck out looking in the seventh inning, because there was nothing else he could do. He couldn't swing, having strained his right oblique during the at-bat. "I took those two swings my last at-bat, the first one I felt like a little grab on my side, the second one I felt something a lot more significant," said Lowell, who then left the game. "The last pitch I kind of panicked, I didn't know what to do. I didn't think I could swing. I was kind of hoping he'd just flop a curveball or something. I've never had this happen to me before. It's just frustrating." And now he's hoping that the injury isn't too bad. The Sox will give Lowell an MRI today to determine the severity of the injury, though oblique problems can often linger, especially in baseball players. After the game, Lowell could barely stand, his eyes and face wrinkled with what seemed like pain. He was deeply concerned about what today's MRI would bring. "I can't really stand up really straight," he said. "I feel like keeping bent over feels a lot more comfortable. Getting up out of a chair isn't the greatest thing. I just hope I sleep good tonight." Asked if he thought the disabled list would be a possibility, Lowell said, "I hope tomorrow I feel better. I'm just, I'm not sure. "I'm kind of - I wouldn't say nervous about it - but I feel like I'm in uncharted waters. I'd like to avoid [the DL]." The trainers, Lowell said, have told him to take it slowly, believing that rest will help his already ailing hip. Lowell has been suffering from a strained right hip flexor since the end of June, and spent time earlier this season on the disabled list with a sprained left thumb. But Lowell said that, with the injection he got a week ago, his hip had been improving. "I don't see them as two totally different things, it's just too much of a coincidence," he said, of the hip and the oblique. "Those two swings were weird. I tried to kind of bend over and grab it, and see if something would go away. But, I don't know, it's kind of getting progressively worse." 看來傷痛是造成他衰退的主因...希望本季不要報銷... 等消息吧~ Ellsbury nicked Jacoby Ellsbury was scratched from the starting lineup just before game time with tightness and a bruise in his tailbone area, but he entered as a pinch hitter in the eighth and wound up scoring the run that tied it, 16-16. Ellsbury was hit by a John Danks pitch in the rear end in the sixth inning Monday night, breaking up the pitcher's perfect game . . . Julio Lugo is making progress coming back from the torn left quadriceps that landed him on the disabled list July 12. Lugo took ground balls yesterday for the first time since the injury, though it didn't go beyond that. "He's starting to move around a little bit," manager Terry Francona said. "Today's really his first day of baseball activities on the field. Now, he's not going in the hole and throwing people out, but he's starting to get back on the field, which is good. He's worked hard." Ellsbury 被丟到尾椎所以休息，不過代打仍舊建功。 Lugo 竟然可以練習了...會不會太快... --

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