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Can't pitch around ChiSox's 3-4-5 hitters

By Phil Rogers
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Leave it to Joe Torre to find a weakness and then expose it. During the five-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox, Yankees pitchers walked Manny Ramirez nine times -- five times intentionally. You can do that when you have the likes of Kevin Youkilis, Eric Hinske and Javy Lopez hitting behind him. And now with 37 games remaining in the season, Ramirez has 94 walks, only three short of his career high. While David Ortiz and Ramirez make the middle of Boston's batting order a no-man's land for oppos ...

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