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Article: Red Sox Sleepwalk: Thomas' 3 Homers Carry Blue Jays.
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- Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
- Article date:
- September 18, 2007
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Byline: Jeff Goldberg
Sep. 18--TORONTO -- As overnight trips go, the journey the Red Sox took from Boston to Toronto early Monday morning was unique.
The Red Sox have arrived at team hotels at 4 a.m. plenty of times before, but not with one of their ace pitchers, Daisuke Matsuzaka, dressed up like a Teletubby.
The rookie hazing ritual took some of the sting out of a tough loss to the Yankees Sunday night, especially as Matsuzaka passed through customs in the fuzzy green get-up.
"We got some interesting looks, but no international incidents," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said before Monday night's game at Rogers Centre. "I didn't ...