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Red Sox Disable Mike Lowell
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog — The Red Sox have disabled Mike Lowell for the balance of the postseason. I heard about this on Charley Steiner's XM radio show during his interview with Tony Masseroti of the Boston Globe; he characterized the injury as being equivalent to a torn shoulder labrum, affecting his ability to move laterally. The Globe has more on this. Lowell will be replaced by Gil Velazquez.

ALDS Game 4: Angels @ BoSox
River Avenue Blues — ... In what must be a new rule, the Sawx dropped Mikey Lowell off their postseason roster and replaced him with some guy named Gil Velazquez. As Chip Caray has reminded us numerous times last night, Lowell has a torn labrum in his hip and has basically been useless on both sides of the ball. This has to be a brand spankin’ new rule, because the only time you were allowed to change the roster was between rounds as recent as last season. If a guy got hurt, too bad, you were stuck with him. ...

ALDS Game 4: Angels Vs. Red Sox [Live Blogs]
Deadspin — ... When TBS said "rig the playoffs so there's more Red Sox," that's not what they had in mind. Tonight's game may very well take seven hours, even if they have to pause between pitches to ask regular bargoers if Jonathan Papelbon is available to pitch tonight. Sheesh. It looks like Mike Lowell took the easy way out of this series. ...