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Lowell feeling better

Talked to Mike Lowell a few minutes before BP, and he said he felt much better than he did Wednesday, when he said "I couldn't take two sips of water" without feeling ill. "I must have slept 18 or 20 hours,'' said the Sox third baseman, who on Tuesday had four hits for the sixth time this season, a major league high, after going 3 for 27 in his previous eight games.

Coincidentally, the big-leaguer with the next highest number of four-hit games is Hanley Ramirez, who was traded to Florida in the Lowell deal.

Brendan Donnelly was in the clubhouse for the first time since undergoing Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery. "Everything went good,'' he said. "And I feel a lot better being here, rather than having to watch Remy and Orsillo every night.'' He delivered that last line with a smile.