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Alejandro De Aza offers Red Sox rare sight in left field: Game-saving defense

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TORONTO -- Ben Cherington can never lend voice to such a thought, of course. But with the Red Sox general manager on the premises here Monday night, you wonder if he allowed himself to contemplate how different this season might look if his left fielder had played with the same intensity at bat, on the basepaths, and most importantly, in the field as Alejandro De Aza did Monday night.