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BOSTON - The Boston Red Sox can at least be excited about their young players going into next year. Stitched Jazz Jerseys .Rusney Castillo and Christian Vazquez each hit his first major league homer, and Allen Webster pitched seven solid innings to carry the Red Sox to an 11-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday night.Vazquez finished with a career-best four hits and drove in three runs, and another rookie, Mookie Betts, had three of Bostons 16 hits. The Red Sox won for the fourth time in six games.Weve got a lot young guys coming up and everybodys really good, said Webster, who joined the rotation on July 27. Its looking good going forward.Castillo, a Cuban outfielder who signed with Boston in August and was promoted from the minors on Sept. 16, collected his first two hits in Fenway Park.A lot of very good at-bats, particularly at the bottom of the order and Mookie at the top, Boston manager John Farrell said.Evan Longoria had two singles for the Rays, who lost for the fifth time in seven games.Give them credit, Rays manager Joe Maddon said. They totally beat us up tonight.Webster (5-3) was charged with one run and seven hits in his best start since he joined the rotation. The 24-year old rookie right-hander struck out five and walked one.Leading 3-1 in the third, the Red Sox broke it open by scoring four times while chasing Jeremy Hellickson (1-5).Yoenis Cespedes and Allen Craig had one-out singles before Garin Cecchini reached on first baseman James Loneys error, with Cespedes scoring on the play. Steve Geltz then came in and Castillo drove the relievers first pitch into the front row of Green Monster seats for a three-run shot.Hellickson lasted just 2 1-3 innings, getting tagged for six runs a€” five earned a€” and eight hits.I feel like I had better stuff, he said. Obviously the numbers are really bad, but I dont think I made that many bad pitches.Vazquezs two-run homer bounced off a billboard above the Monster, lifting the Red Sox to a 3-1 lead in the second. The ball was picked up by a ball girl, handed to a security guard and given to Red Sox third base coach Brian Butterfield.I want to take the ball back for my family, said Vazquez, who was glad it didnt clear the Monster and leave the park completely.Daniel Navas sacrifice fly gave Boston a 1-0 edge in the first before Ben Zobrists RBI single in the second tied it.ROOKIE HOME RUN RECORDVazquez and Castillo became the seventh and eighth Red Sox rookies to homer this season, establishing a club record. They had seven in three previous seasons, the last in 1996.YOUNG AT HEARTThe Red Sox have played 19 rookies this season, tied with Arizona for most in the majors. Its the fourth-most rookies in Bostons history behind 25 in 1911, 22 in 25 and 21 in 26.TRAINERS ROOMRays: Maddon said SS Yunel Escobar, who sprained his left knee Tuesday and was sent to Florida for an MRI, only has a bruise, but hes done for the remainder of the season because the MRI was bad enough that he cant play anymore.Red Sox: DH David Ortiz missed his second straight game with a sore left wrist and Farrell said the team would learn toward shutting him down, but at the same time if he feels good to go, were certainly not going to hold him out. Ortiz said after the game that he didnt think hed play this weekend. The doctor told me the other day take it day by day, but itll probably take a week at least to go back to normal, he said. ... Farrell also said INF/OF Brock Holt, out with a concussion since Sept. 5, would probably not play again. ... 3B Will Middlebrooks missed his third straight game with a sprained right hand. Its been a rough year, he said of his season between injuries, a .191 average and shuttling up and down from Triple-A.UP NEXTThe Rays are slated to open a three-game series Friday in Cleveland with RHP Chris Archer (10-8, 3.42 ERA) facing Indians RHP Corey Kluber (17-9, 2.53 ERA). The Red Sox face the Yankees for the final three games of the season, starting Friday. RHP Steven Wright (0-0, 3.38 ERA) makes his first start of the season for Boston. Former Red Sox LHP Chris Capuano (2-4, 4.67 ERA) is scheduled to go for New York.ALL-STAR SERIES REPLACEMENTFarrell was selected to manage the major league team in the All-Star series in Japan, replacing former Texas manager Ron Washington, who resigned from his job with the Rangers in early September. The major league stars will face Japans national team in a five-game series. Pete Maravich Jersey . -- The NFL Players Association wants to determine if the Tampa Bay Buccaneers leaked information about quarterback Josh Freeman being in the NFLs substance abuse program. Nigel Williams-Goss Jersey . Blatter, a 75-year-old Swiss executive who has been in office since 1998, was handed a final four-year term as head of footballs governing body in a vote at FIFAs congress. He won 186 votes out of 203 ballots. https://www.cheapjazzonline.com/898e-bojan-bogdanovic-jersey-jazz.html . -- Adam Tambellini scored three times and set up one more as the Calgary Hitmen won their sixth in a row by crushing the host Lethbridge Hurricanes 8-1 on Saturday in Western Hockey League play.FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The New England Patriots released veteran tight ends Jake Ballard and Daniel Fells in the first batch of final cuts. Now comes the really hard part. The Patriots released 10 players on Friday and must reduce their roster by 12 more to get down to the NFL regular-season limit of 53 by Saturday. Tim Tebow could be in jeopardy despite a decent performance in the Patriots 28-20 win over the New York Giants in the exhibition finale Thursday. The third-string quarterback completed 6 of 11 passes for 91 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. He also was sacked four times but got poor protection on some of them. "Its not just one game (that matters)," coach Bill Belichick said Friday about the player evaluation process, "although every game is important. But the body of work, the camp, the rate of improvement, the ability to do the things that players are going to be asked to do at their respective positions (also matters)." Belichick spoke before the cuts were announced and gave no indication of which players he might let go. The cuts of Ballard and Fells indicate that Rob Gronkowski could be ready to play sooner than expected after missing all four exhibition games following back surgery. Hes one of three tight ends still on the roster. Tebow is one of three quarterbacks, playing behind Tom Brady and Ryan Mallett. Asked after Thursdays game if he felt that performance improved his chances of making the team, Tebow said, "Im not sure. I dont make those decisions." That decision will depend on whether Belichick feels it would help the Patriots more to have greater depth at another position than by carrying a third quarterback, something hes done just once in the past four seasons. "I dont think its good planning or good insurance for your team to go light at a position and then have no idea where your depth at that position is going to be," he said. "It may be on the roster. It may not be on the roster. But, at least, you want to have some idea where youre headed if you need it." That depth could come from players on the practice squuad, the physically unable to perform list or free agents who arent on any team, Belichick said. Thurl Bailey Jersey. "I think whenever you put a roster together you look at it and say, OK, were a little heavy here and were a little light here, relative to where your team has been in the past, or maybe relative to what the norm is around the league," he said. "But you do it because you feel you have a higher quality player at a certain position, or you just lack the overall depth at another position. "Thats going to happen somewhere on your roster every year." The Patriots released three other veterans -- defensive end Marcus Benard, wide receiver Johnathan Haggerty and linebacker Mike Rivera -- first-year offensive lineman Luke Patterson and four rookie free agents -- fullback Ben Bartholomew, defensive linemen Gilbert Pena and Scott Vallone and offensive lineman Matt Stankiewitch. The Patriots hoped Ballard could contribute this year when they claimed him off waivers from the Giants in 2012. Belichick knew the knee injury he sustained in the Super Bowl that year, a 21-17 win over the Patriots, would keep him out all last season. But Ballard didnt seem at full strength this summer and didnt catch any passes in exhibition games. Fells played 13 games last season after signing as a free agent from Denver and caught four passes. He had five receptions this preseason. Gronkowski is on the physically unable to perform list and, if he stays there, would have to miss the first six regular-season games. But hes been working out on the field in shorts and a T-shirt and could be ready early in the season. The other tight ends are rookie free agent Zach Sudfeld and Michael Hoomanawanui. The Patriots cut Aaron Hernandez on June 26 after he was arrested. Later that day, he was charged with murder. One decision involves the punter, where Zoltan Mesko had three solid seasons. But free-agent rookie Ryan Allen has had a good camp. "Its been competitive all the way through from the spring to training camp into the games," Belichick said. "We have to talk about that one." ' ' '