Quote to note

"You talk to players about, when they go through a tough time, about just playing the game. That's probably the easiest and best way to not get frustrated. He does that about as good as anybody I've ever seen. He goes out and plays the game and I can't tell in the dugout if he's 0-for-4 or 4-for-4. He handles it pretty well."
--Francona, on shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, who entered Saturday mired in an 0-for-20 slump