From Adam Rubin…
Francisco Rodriguez was taken my ambulance to a Boston hospital after the game to get checked out, in obvious discomfort from back spasms that struck him while running pregame.
“I’ve never experienced some pain like the way that I have right now,” K-Rod said. “I’ve been struggling even to walk. Tomorrow is another day. We’ll see how my body responds for tomorrow.
“The first time I had that,” he continued. “It came out of nowhere. I was getting my running in. I stopped in the middle of the way because I felt my back tighten up on me. I came in here to get some treatment. The chiropractor tried to make some adjustments, and it made it a lot worse. It got to the point that I was on the table for like an hour and I couldn’t even move. It’s been a really tough day.
“We’ll see how the back responds tomorrow,” he said. “Otherwise we’ll get some shot or whatever will make it a lot better, because right now it’s real painful.”
Said Jerry Manuel: “We were all sitting here and there was a crowd of people standing around. I said, ‘What’s going on?’ They said it was Frankie, so we’ll see where he is tomorrow. He was kind of trying to right himself on the table.”
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