Pedroia out with foot fracture‎

SAN FRANCISCO -- All season the Red Sox have been asked to withstand the loss of significant players, a list that includes ace Josh Beckett and dynamic leadoff man Jacoby Ellsbury. But now manager Terry Francona's team is about to face its stiffest challenge of the season thanks to Saturday morning's news that second baseman Dustin Pedroia will be lost for at least the next few weeks with a non-displaced fracture in the navicular bone of his left foot.

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