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Click the play button below to hear Sean McAdam's comments, recorded this morning. The topics: Tampa Bay's tremendous success in close games against Boston (they're 7-0 against the Sox in games this season decided by one or two runs), Mike Lowell's torn labrum, J.D. Drew's potential return this weekend and what that means for Mark Kotsay, and what might have been for the Red Sox had Theo Epstein not returned to the team before the 2006 season.

Here's what Sean said about the Rays' latest clutch victory:
"That's now three in the last four games between these two teams that have been determined in Tampa's final at-bat. You had the ninth-inning comeback against Papelbon in the middle game of the series at Fenway; you had the 14-inning game with Carlos Pena leading the way to close up the series in Boston; and then last night, the Rays breaking through and getting a walkoff win in the ninth. So, that says a lot about a young team, and it says even more about a young team that lost by [a 13-5 score] the night before ... that they bounced back as quickly as they did."

And about the hobbled Lowell:
"I don't know if it's going to be as bad [the rest of the season] as it looked last night. Certainly there was the play on the chopper that he had to lean down to get and he had difficulty, and then of course after singling later in the game having to come out for a pinch runner because he could barely run to first base. That seemed like an extreme case where a couple of things added up in the same night. But it's certainly going to be something that they've got to monitor pretty closely going down the stretch, and try to give him as much rest as they can possibly do. It's something that he's going to battle not only in the last 10 days of the regular season but the postseason as well."

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