MINNEAPOLIS - As the Red Sox [team stats] showered, dressed and packed for Toronto, the middle stop on their three-city road trip, emergency medical technicians attended to manager Terry Francona in the trainer’s room of the visitors clubhouse yesterday afternoon.

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A member of the Red Sox training staff suggested that Francona be examined before the team left the Metrodome, especially since the manager, who has a history of medical complications, would be boarding a plane.