Mike Lowell's Dad Says His Son Knows How to Play With Pain

It is likely that Mike Lowell will be out of tonight's lineup but not because he can't gut it out. Lowell will play hurt but Tito wants to have him for game 3 at Fenway. Fox Sports caught up with Mike's dad in South Florida to see if he had always been like that.

"He's always been a guy who wants to be the one confronting the enemy on the field of play," Carl Lowell said. "He has never shrunk away from playing injured. Sometimes I think he's his worst enemy because sometimes he demands so much of himself and plays injured longer than he should.

"You can't teach a kid to be tough. You're either tough or you're not tough. What you can teach is to get to the level of skill where he feels he can compete even when he feels he is dying. But either you're tough or your not. Where it came from with Mike? I wish I could take credit for it, but I can't."

He did hit the ball hard a few times in game 1 even though he was 0-4. His defense was good but you could see he was hurting when he tried to get down the line after hitting a grounder.