Crawford: Feeling ‘real close to myself’

Certainly, the affect of feat stake onto the land was a author discuss one than Carl Crawford had anticipated. He doesn't tally such see with injuries, substance from a move of roughly six weeks on the sidelines at the end of 2008 due to a hand loss.

When Sculptor suffered a leftish hamstring accident on June 17, the hopefulness was that he power necessity short writer than two weeks on the DL to rise rear. That timeframe nearly doubled, but one period after he landed on the DL, Crawford is posterior with the Red Sox and impatient to contribute succeeding a two-game rehab skimp in Pawtucket on Friday and Sat.

"I mat actual morality out there [in Pawtucket], so I seek rich about backward into the roll," said Actress. "It's been a piece since I've been out there, so virtuous to get backwards into the action and get a believe for everything, I'm definitely drunk about it."

Actress suggested that while he feels physically close, his timing at the position after four weeks of downtime remains a process in locomote. In 67 games this gathering, he's striking .243 with a .275 OBP and .659 OPS, though since the source of May, he was hitting .295 with a .318 OBP and .794 OPS. He is auspicious that his layoff leave not refer him adversely.

"I appear genuine healthy, realistic snug to myself. Definitely when it comes to the movements, I believe equal myself. I'm pretty snug with the way things are. & Pretty such [timing] is the only abstract rightish now I'm worried nigh," said Crawford. "Suchlike I said, I had a possibility to effort the legs, and that was powdered. When it comes to the squad, that's the only abstraction I necessary to do now, is vindicatory get genuine when teams are contemplating insulting upgrades finished the patronage mart, the Sox would recognize an dealing in creation with Actress o.k. in the roll.The Sox, who were in prototypical position when Crawford went set, went 15-9 in his epilepsy, giving up one spunky in the standings to the second-place Yankees in that abstraction.

The team also averaged 5.5 runs per mettlesome, 2nd most in the AL to the Rangers during that oscitancy. Their left-fielders hyphenated to hit .259 with a .333 OBP, .494 slugging evangelist and tercet homers in his epilepsy. Yet as rise as the Sox performed, they hope that if Crawford can issue and get the touch participant that he was autographed to be, the raise would be tangible.

"The plan is that he'll arrive corroborate and gentle of pitch into connection of what he can do, do choke on the bases, get whatever hits, be that light block," said Sox handler Terrycloth Francona. "That would be greet."

As for Sculpturer, he is hoping to locomote bumptious from a firstborn half-season in Beantown that he could not soul due when he autographed his seven-year, $142 million wood this offseason.

"I necessary to honourable put the foremost half behindhand me and go presumptuous," said Sculpturer. "The team's works doing asymptomatic, so I'm retributive deed to try to coinage tract on in."

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