Red Sox arrive in Denver with 2-0 lead

Manny Ramirez, in a blue sweat shirt and white do-rag, was laughing and giving teammates a thumbs-up. David Ortiz stood at first base in gray sweats, a red bandanna around his head, the sun glistening off an earring on his left lobe. Out in left field, Julian Tavarez was flat on the grass, getting his legs stretched out in an outfield that’s baseball’s equivalent of a prairie.