Red Sox manager Farrell announces he has cancer

His eyes, still red, and the napkins in his hand for dabbing told a different story. When he starts out by telling us that, your heart just stops. We had just about every emotion you possibly can. They traded Mike Aviles to Toronto to get Farrell back, one of the rare instances when a player was traded for a manager.

The 53-year-old said he has Stage 1 lymphoma and considers himself lucky that a mass was discovered during hernia surgery in Detroit last Monday. Farrell was his pitching coach that season.

Cherington said Farrell told him yesterday when the GM was traveling between flights en route to Greenville, South Carolina, to visit one of the teams Single-A affiliates.

“I want to give him a dugout view as much as I can”, Lovullo said, “but I’m gonna let him control the climate”. And since throwing back-to-back complete games in late June, he’s pitched into the seventh inning just once in eight starts.

Boston Red Sox’s Junichi Tazawa, rubs the ball as catcher Blake Swihart (23) heads to the mound to talk to Tazawa in the ninth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, August 11, 2015, in Miami. The third baseman capitalized with a double into the gap in left-center that got to the wall, allowing both baserunners to score.

“I know we usually start out with the injury report. Hernandez is 8-3 with a 3.21 ERA and 108 strikeouts in his career against the Red Sox.

“I came out and asked the team: ‘Where’s Farrell at?,”‘ he said. “It’s localized. It’s highly curable”.

Shaw had a two-run and solo shot, and Castillo’s was a two-run homer in Boston’s highest run total of the season. Brock Holt added a two-run triple to complete a six-run inning. And Jackie Bradley Jr., who began the game in left field but shifted to right when Castillo exited, may have robbed a second home run from Seager when he jumped to snag a towering fly ball in the eighth inning. He will undergo imaging Saturday for what was being called a contusion. His chemotherapy is expected to last approximately nine weeks. “He may run the table, you never know”. And if the game on the field seems unimportant in light of the situation off of it, at least this one thing went right in Boston. “It’s tough to see something like that happen to your manager”.

Bench coach Torey Lovullo will manage the rest of the season for the Red Sox, who will be playing some inspired baseball, I’m sure, as we head down the stretch. Nelson Cruz leads Seattle with 140 hits and 70 RBI while Robinson Cano and Kyle Seager have combined for 79 RBI. Despite giving up a one out double to Morrison, he was able to prevent Seattle from scoring and preserved a 15-1 win for Boston. Miley is 0-5 with two no-decisions in his last seven starts.