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Suspension reduced; Crisp out five games ; Crisp gets 5 games, out for Rays' series

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

HOUSTON - Red Sox center fielder Coco Crisp figured he did about as well as could be expected yesterday, having his suspension reduced from seven games to five by John McHale Jr., the executive vice president of Major League Baseball who heard his appeal this week.

Crisp will begin serving his suspension tonight and will miss the last two games of the Astros series and the scheduled three-game set against the Tampa Bay Rays, beginning Monday in St. Petersburg, Fla. That is of small comfort to the Rays, the other team in the June 5 brawl at Fenway Park. They reacted with disbelief at the news Crisp's penalty was reduced. Their annoyance was heightened by McHale's decision to ...

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