FORT MYERS — Run a blockade on Alligator Alley. Whatever it takes.
The Red Sox have to keep Hanley Ramirez from an eastbound trip on I-75 to Miami on Friday, and the team has that right.
Ramirez cannot play first base right now because of a sore throwing shoulder, a condition he has too much history with for the Sox to let him out of their sight for the World Baseball Classic. Even if the soreness is minor.
Ramirez is supposed to join up with the Dominican Republic’s team on the other Florida coast at the end of the week.