Off-Day News (4/8/02)

Just as everyone feared, the news wasn't good when it came to Dustin Hermanson. Apparently he suffered a severe groin pull that's going to knock him out of action for a while. Hermanson was officially placed on the Disabled List retroactive to April 4th and in his place the Sox called up Sun-Woo Kim from Pawtucket. The 24 year old pitched in 20 games last year and hopefully that experience under his belt will help him this season to improve.

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In other news unrelated to the Red Sox, the Boston Bruins are currently in 1st place in the NHL Eastern Conference and have 3 games left to play to lock up the first seed. The Boston Celtics are a few games back of the New Jersey Nets for first place in the Eastern Conference of the NBA. Its going to be a fun spring if both the Bruins and Celtics have long playoff runs.

The Sox are back in action tomorrow night at home against the Kansas City Royals. Dan Reichert goes for Kansas City against Tim Wakefield making his season debut for Boston. The game begins at 7:05 PM at Fenway Park.