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BOSTON -- The?Red Sox?are hoping to use their final series before the All-Star break to gain some ground on AL?East-leading Baltimore.Some of their newest additions helped keep that goal intact in a series-opening win over the struggling Tampa Bay Rays.David Ortiz hit his 21st home run of the season, and recent call-up Bryce Brentz had two hits and broke a tie with an RBI single in the sixth to help the Red Sox beat the Rays 6-5 on Friday night.Aaron Hill, who was acquired in a trade with the Brewers Thursday, had two RBI hits in his Red Sox debut.The win was Bostons fourth in five games.Brentzs RBI came after he entered the game in the fourth inning for an injured Brock Holt. Holt left with a left ankle sprain after getting his leg caught underneath him on a slide while stealing second.Honestly, I was hoping he was OK. After that, its time to go to work, said Brentz, who was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket on June 24 for his first major league stint since debuting in 2014. I just always try to come to the field every day ready. Unfortunately Brock had an incident, so hopefully he gets better. Luckily I was able to do something to help the team out.The Red Sox, who have had their share of injuries the past two months, left even more scuffed up.He was able to walk off the field under his own power, but did have a slight limp. X-rays were negative and he will be re-evaluated on Saturday. Holt just returned to action July 1 after missing 37 games with a concussion.Hanley Ramirez also limped his way through an eighth inning at-bat after fouling a ball off his left leg. He left the game with a left shin bruise and will get an MRI on Friday.Hill said the hits helped welcome him to Boston.It definitely made me forget that I got up at 4 a.m., thats for sure, he said. The electricity in this place is always solid. You always wonder on visiting side what its like over here and being able to get a taste of it is pretty neat.Robbie Ross, Jr. (1-1) got the victory for Boston. Koji Uehara picked up his third save.Red Sox starter Sean OSullivan had won in each of his previous three starts, but he allowed four runs and seven hits in five innings.Tampa Bays Chris Archer (4-12) took the loss, surrendering five runs and seven hits in six innings.Evan Longoria had four hits and a home run for the Rays, who have lost four straight and 20 of 23.Archer entered the night with a 9.50 ERA in the first inning this season -- the third-highest in the American League.He got off to another slow start Friday.A little bit more of the same, Rays manager Kevin Cash said. Tough for us to avoid those first-inning struggles right now. It drives Archs pitch count up a little bit, or a lot. I wish I had a better explanation for it; I dont. I dont think anybody really does.TRAINERS ROOMRays: OF Kevin Kiermaier (wrist) will go through another batting practice session Saturday, and could start a rehab assignment Monday or Tuesday.Red Sox: IF Travis Shaw remains day-to-day with a bruised left foot. X-rays on the foot were negative Thursday and he said the swelling has reduced significantly since he left Wednesdays win over the Rangers. Its got good color, but the swelling has gone down, he said.SOX ADD MARTINEZThe Red Sox sent cash to the Cleveland Indians for utilityman Michael Martinez on Friday.Martinez batted .283 with one home run and three RBI in 32 games for the Indians this season. He was designated for assignment July 2. A switch-hitter, he played all three outfield positions, second base and third base.Martinez, 33, has also played for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh over six major league seasons.UP NEXTRays: LHP Matt Moore (5-5, 4.54 ERA) is 3-1 over his last five starts with a 2.43 ERA over that span. 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Elections compress the uncertainty and chaos of everyday life into a constellation of impossibly discrete points of light.Yet the choices that precede freedom are far more frequent and require far more courage than quadrennial electoral rhetoric suggests. Its not elections every four years that provide our freedom -- its the choices we face every day: how we speak up, how we show up, how we struggle to belong to each other.Unlike elections, no one tells us how or when to make these kinds of choices -- they come without solicitous phone calls or TV ads. There is no day marked on the calendar. One seldom receives a sticker for making choices that require conviction. One may, in fact, receive the opposite -- wrath, skepticism and disapproval from others.Take, for example, Megan Rapinoe, midfielder for the U.S. womens national soccer team. Rapinoe took note of the eerie political alchemy that transformed when San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick decided to kneel during the national anthem.Im disgusted w/way Colin has been treated & the fans & hatred he has received in all of this [sic], Rapinoe tweeted. It is overtly racist. Stay in ur [sic] place black man. Just didnt feel right to me. It needs to be everyone confronting problems in our country, not just people of color.She realized Kaepernick could not face this alone and decided to kneel during the national anthem in solidarity with him. Her job, like Kaepernicks, became threatened.Yet, despite professional blowback, including consternation by her teammates, Rapinoe has continued to kneel. Her decision isnt about her identity. It isnt about Kaepernicks identity. She kneeled --- just as Kaepernick did -- for one simple reason: we belong to each other.ddddddddddddWe cannot stand for a world in which some peoples lives are continually made invisible, denigrated, humiliated, endangered for their existence.And we dont have to wait every four years to make choices about how to build that world into existence -- we can make a different future for ourselves even when there is no election by speaking up and standing up, like Rapinoe and Kaepernick have done.James Baldwin said that to ignore what is happening in ones own backyard was the great device of whiteness.My whiteness and Kaepernicks blackness, in fact, depend on one another. My liberation belongs with his; his freedom belongs with mine. Kaepernick took a stand. Rapinoe took a stand. And by doing so, they -- like many others -- takes steps toward a future that values the ways our lives are connected to one another.These kind of choices are all around us, every day, regardless of election season. They are available to us on the football field and the locker room, this week and next, no matter who wins or who loses the election. Rapinoe and Kaepernick gives us courage to speak up for each other. They give us examples of choices and actions that remind us how we are connected. They give us a vision for how to use our voices and our bodies to build a world wide enough for all of us.The light they offer us has doesnt depend on elections. It depends on our choices to speak up for one another.Eleni Schirmer is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madisons department of Educational Policy Studies and Curriculum and Instruction, where she studies social movements and education. Her writing has appeared in Jacobin, The Progressive, Labor Notes and Education Review. ' ' '