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- Updated: August 25, 2016
ST. PETERSBURG — Pablo Sandoval took a break from his season-long rehabilitation from shoulder surgery to check in with the Red Sox at Tropicana Field on Wednesday. The third baseman has been training in Fort Myers, Fla., about 90 minutes from where Boston is playing the Rays.
He would have liked to be with his team for all four games of the series, but he couldn’t disrupt his rehab for too long. Sandoval has been working six days a week, trying to regain his mental and physical form ahead of the 2017 season.
“You learn a lot of lessons from the mistakes you make,” said Sandoval. “It depends how you feel, how you want to handle things. But now that I learned my lesson, I have to prove to myself that I can do a better job out there.”
Sandoval, who was working out on the field before batting practice on Wednesday, has been out since April 10, playing in just three games this season. He struggled during Spring Training and didn’t break camp as the starting third baseman, losing the job to Travis Shaw. Sandoval hit just .245 with 10 home runs a season ago in his first year with Boston and didn’t register a hit in six at-bats this season.
Sandoval started taking ground balls for the first time on Monday, and he is working to get back to more …
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