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After shrewd moves, Dombrowski savors October
- Updated: October 4, 2016
BOSTON — It was a perfect autumn day in Boston, and Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski couldn’t help but savor it as he sat in the empty grandstands at Fenway Park while his team worked out in preparation for Thursday’s Game 1 of the American League Division Series at Cleveland (8 p.m. ET, TBS).
“When the sun shines at this time of year, it’s great,” Dombrowski said Tuesday.
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And as the seasoned Dombrowski knows as well as any executive in the game, there is no better time of year than the postseason, when every pitch is magnified.
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These were the days Dombrowski missed last October, when he was just a few weeks into his new job with the Red Sox after leaving the Tigers.
“It’s a nice feeling any time you can make it to the postseason,” Dombrowski said. “You never take that for granted. It’s something that as an organization, when you achieve that, it’s never easy to win, it’s never easy to win a game, it’s never easy to win a division. You hope to play good at the right time and have a couple of breaks go your way. But again, it’s great to be sitting here.”
Of course, it was at Fenway Park that Dombrowski’s heart was broken three Octobers ago — first by a David Ortiz grand slam in Game 2 of the AL Championship Series, and then by a Shane Victorino slam in the clinching Game 6.
This time, Dombrowski hopes to take part in a Boston party, rather than it happening at his team’s expense.
Under Dombrowski’s leadership in Florida, the Marlins won the 1997 World Series. During his time in Detroit, the Tigers went to the World Series in 2006 and ’12, and won four straight division titles (2011-14).
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