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BOSTON -- Hanley Ramirez had two three-run homers for six RBIs, David Ortiz added a homer and the Boston Red Sox beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-4 in interleague play on Friday night.Ramirezs performance seemingly shrugged off questions about his back pain that caused him to leave Thursdays game after a collision with New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez.It was the 20th multi-homer game for Ramirez and a much-needed victory for the Red Sox, who had lost four of five.?Boston scored four runs in each of the first two innings, ending a streak of 14 scoreless innings by the Diamondbacks starting pitchers.The Red Sox took advantage of some sloppy defensive play by Arizona, which committed two first-inning errors.Ortiz had three hits, including his 1,000th extra-base hit with Boston.It was all the run support needed for David Price (10-8), who struck out eight in eight innings to pick up the win.However, second baseman Dustin Pedroia left the game due to flu-like symptoms. Pedroia had reached on an error in the first inning and singled in the second, scoring in both frames as the Red Sox built an early 8-2 lead. He was removed from the game prior to the start of the third inning.Boston has seen several of its top hitters leave games with injury this week.Ortiz departed Wednesdays tilt after fouling a ball off his shin and Ramirez was an early exit on Thursday night following a collision in the field.Right fielder Mookie Betts also missed time when calf issues forced him out of Wednesdays game against the New York Yankees and caused him to miss the next contest. He returned the line up on Friday.Red Sox manager John Farrell indicated that there is a fluid build-up in Betts knee and that managing the pain will be a season-long exercise.As [the fluid] increases, were going to have to back off, if it does increase, Farrell said. All the imaging thats been done, its not because of structural damage or injury thats caused that, so were having to monitor closely.In other injury news, the Red Sox hope to have right-hander Steven Wright return to the rotation next week in Detroit, Farrell announced Friday.Wright was scratched from his scheduled start Thursday night against the New York Yankees because of shoulder pain.The All-Star knuckleballer jammed the shoulder diving into second base while pinch running Sunday against the Los Angeles Dodgers, two days after he threw a three-hit shutout. Farrell said Wright threw from 90 feet Friday and has reported substantial improvement.The range of motion has improved, as I said over the last 24 hours, the strength, the symptoms have decreased, Farrell said. Hes not symptom-free, but still theres a marked improvement.Wright would need to get on the mound for a bullpen session by Monday, in all likelihood, in order to slot back in by Thursday, when the Sox are in Detroit. 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Adidas Sneakers Cheap . The mixed zone is not a place to make friends.NEW YORK --?New England Patriots?quarterback Tom Bradys latest attempt to avoid serving a four-game Deflategate suspension to start the new season was flatly rejected Wednesday by an appeals court.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued a one-sentence rejection of requests by the National Football League Players Association and Brady to reconsider an April decision that found that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell acted?within his powers by suspending the star quarterback for his role in a scheme to doctor footballs used in a January 2015 playoff game.We are disappointed with the decision denying a rehearing, as there were clear violations of our collective bargaining agreement by the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell, the NFLPA said in a statement issued Wednesday. Despite todays result, the track record of this League office when it comes to matters of player discipline is bad for our business and bad for our game. We have a broken system that must be fixed.We will review all of our options carefully on behalf of Tom Brady and all NFL players.The NFL declined comment.The courts action leaves intact the 2-1 ruling by a three-judge panel that affirmed wide-ranging powers given to the commissioner by the NFLs collective bargaining agreement. It is a setback for organized labor groups arguing for due process in employee discipline.The players association and Brady had requested that the three-judge panel reconsider the case or that all the 2nd Circuit judges hear arguments and decide anew.Bradys remaining hope is to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.Sources close to Bradys legal team told ESPNs Mike Reiss on Wednesday that the denied appeal was the expected result and that no decision has been made concerning the next step.We wish the result were otherwise, but respect and understand the decision and know that it is extremely rare for the Second Circuit to grant en banc review,?Anthony Barkow, a lawyer who submitted a brief on behalf of longtime arbitrator Kenneth R. Feinberg, told The Associated Press.An en banc review would be a new hearing in front of the complete circuit.The Patriots open the season Sept. 11 at Arizona. If Brady remains suspended, backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo?is expected to take his place against the?Cardinals,?Miami Dolphins, Houston Texans and Buffalo Bills.Despite the courts denial, the Patriots remain the odds-on favorite?-- at 6-1, with a regular-season win total of 10.5 --?to win Super Bowl LI, according to the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook.Brady, who signed a two-year contract extension during the offseason that dropped his 2016 salary from $9 million to $1 million to save himself almost $2 million in lost salary during the suspension, would then make his regular-season debut in Week 5 against the Cleveland Browns. His renegotiated deal?deferred $8 million of hiss 2016 salary to later in the contract.ddddddddddddWhat began as an accusation of cheating in the 2015 AFC Championship Game has grown into a multimillion-dollar legal battle over three NFL seasons involving not just an MVP quarterback but also some of the elite lawyers and scientists in the country.As it developed, it evolved from a dispute about the air pressure in footballs into a referendum on the powers of a sports commissioner and the right of all unionized employees to due process in a disciplinary hearing.Joining the case along the way were longtime league adversary Jeffrey Kessler and former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, who was involved in the Bush v. Gore lawsuit that settled the 2000 presidential election and the case that overturned Californias ban on same-sex marriage in 2010. The AFL-CIO and scholars from some of the top legal and scientific institutions in the country also piped in with briefs.At stake for the Patriots was not only the availability of their quarterback for one-quarter of the season but also their legacy as an NFL dynasty. Goodell had already penalized the Patriots for cheating -- in an illegal-videotaping scheme in 2007 that came to be known as Spygate -- and they saw the suspension as an attack on their legitimacy of the four Super Bowl championships earned under Brady and coach Bill Belichick.The suspicions boiled over on Jan. 18, 2015, when the league tested the footballs provided by the home team for the AFC title game against the Indianapolis Colts and found them to be underinflated.After three months of analysis, league investigator Ted Wells found that the Patriots intentionally used underinflated footballs in the game and that Brady was at least generally aware of the scheme. The NFL suspended the four-time Super Bowl champion quarterback four games and docked the team $1 million and two draft picks.Brady appealed, first within the league, and Goodell affirmed the decision. The quarterback appealed to federal court, and U.S. District Judge Richard Berman overturned the suspension in September 2015. The league appealed to the 2nd Circuit, and the three-judge panel reinstated the original penalty.An en banc review was unlikely, but Bradys last chance is an even more unlikely hearing at the Supreme Court.Thats always an option to litigants, Olson said after joining the case in May. It is not something we have resolved ourselves to doing.New England fans rallied behind their quarterback, putting Free Brady on T-shirts, reciting the ideal gas law from memory and giving a heros welcome to the quarterback when he took the field for the 2015 regular-season opener.ESPN Staff Writer Mike Reiss and The Associated Press contributed to this report. ' ' '