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BOSTON -- Another tough game for the Red Sox bullpen.This time followed by a save from the Boston bats.Aaron Hill sliced an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth after Tampa Bay tied it in the top half of the inning, and the Red Sox held on for an 8-6 victory over the Rays on Wednesday.We had to find a way to fight back again, manager John Farrell said after the Red Sox finished the homestand with a 3-3 record and headed to the West Coast for the first six in a nine-game road trip.Hanley Ramirez hit a fifth-inning grand slam to erase a 4-1 deficit, and Jackie Bradley Jr. added a solo shot in the sixth to give Boston a 6-4 lead. But one game after the Red Sox blew a two-run lead in the seventh, the Rays loaded the bases against Fernando Abad in the eighth and Logan Forsythe hit a two-run single off Junichi Tazawa (3-2) to tie it.In the bottom half, Ramirez led off with a walk, Sandy Leon bunted him to second and pinch-hitter Brock Holt singled him to third. Hill followed with a single past the first baseman to score Ramirez, and Bradley hit an RBI double to make it 8-6.Difficult loss, Rays manager Kevin Cash said. A walk here and couple of hits, then the big home run by Hanley really killed us.Xander Bogaerts also homered for the Red Sox, and Bradley had three hits. Dustin Pedroia had three more hits for Boston, which had lost five of its previous seven games after moving into a tie for first place in the AL East.Pedroia has 15 hits in his last 20 at-bats and is batting .463 since moving into the leadoff spot on Aug. 10.Erasmo Ramirez (7-10) gave up Hills single and an RBI double by Bradley in the eighth.Kevin Kiermaier had three hits for the Rays, and Forsythe and Logan Morrison each homered as Tampa Bay opened a 4-1 lead through four innings.But Boston took the lead in the fifth after Drew Smyly loaded the bases on two hits and a two-out walk. Ramirez hit the next pitch over the Green Monster for his 19th homer of the season.LOST OPPORTUNITYThe Rays made it 4-1 on Kiermaiers single in the fourth, but they could have had another if Tim Beckham hadnt slowed up along the third base line on the way home. Kiermaier was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double, and Beckham hadnt yet touched home plate.Asked which mistake was worse, the out on the basepaths or the squandered run, Cash said: Definitely the not hustling.Thats required of us and probably the easiest part to do in baseball, he said.NOT AVAILABLECraig Kimbrel pitched the ninth for his 24th save. Farrell said his closer was not available to get a four-out save a day after throwing 22 pitches in a non-save situation just so he could get his work in. I was not going to go with a short turnaround, Farrell said.WRIGHTS STUFFBoston knuckleballer Steven Wright lasted only four innings, allowing four runs on seven hits and three walks. 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She feels too anxious because of her post-traumatic stress disorder.Army veteran Paul Miosek sometimes feels isolated at his home in New York. No one else he knows is in a wheelchair.The two were among a group of about 50 veterans who took part in July in the Veterans Affairs New England Summer Sports Clinic in Rhode Island. For a week, they kayaked, water skied, cycled and sailed -- activities designed to get them and other veterans thinking more about what they can than cant do.This gives me a chance, with my anxiety, to push myself a little further, to realize there are safe places in the world, said Ralph, 52, of Halifax, Massachusetts.The veterans ranged in age from their 20s to 80s. The rehabilitation clinic is open to veterans with spinal cord injuries, amputations, vision loss, mental health problems and other disabilities.Miosek (pronounced MY-sak), 47, of Scotia, New York, lost both legs in 1990 when his head hit a power cable as he stood atop an armored vehicle in Germany, then fell 20 feet.Meeting other veterans at the clinic with similar injuries made him feel hes not alone.I feel a kinship toward them, since we are in that boat together, he said. While in service, we faced a lot of obstacles that we overcame. Now that Im a disabled veteran, and with other disabled veterans, there are things that we can overcome together, as well.In Coventry, Rhode Island, VA volunteers and water ski instructors set up different ways veterans could ski depending on their needs, from a sling-like seat in the center of a wide ski to a three-person tube.Navy veteran Raquel Rachel Ardin uses a wheelchair most of the time. Ardin, 62, of North Hartland, Vermont, was serving in Greece when she broke her neck falling out of a buunk in 1976.dddddddddddd She taught herself to walk again, but the scar tissue from her injury began causing problems several years ago.During her first run of the day, and her first time ever on water skis, Ardin whooped the whole way. The crowd of volunteers and fellow veterans on shore clapped and cheered.Afterward, Ardin told the volunteers, You made my day. You made my life!I want to cry, Im so happy, she told them. Thank you, guys!The sports clinic is modeled after the VAs national adaptive sports program, in which veterans nationwide compete in games. The VA Boston Healthcare System runs it, and the Providence VA Medical Center hosts it.Some of the more traditional activities that occur in VA hospitals, bingo, card playing, those sorts of things, while those are nice, we had a young generation that came out of the battlefield, said Richard Leeman, assistant chief of voluntary services in Boston. They wanted to do the things they did prior to their injury.Theres also a winter sports clinic for skiing and snowboarding at Mount Sunapee Resort in New Hampshire.This was the seventh year of the summer clinic and the third time the Providence medical center has hosted it. The VA worked with many local groups to organize the activities.They pushed themselves to a new limit that they now know they can do, said Susan MacKenzie, the medical centers director. They have confidence that they can set goals for themselves and move forward, not just in sports but in any part of their life.Miosek said he feels alive at the clinic.Im able to get the energy out and do the things that I cant do at home, he said. I use that energy all year long, to kind of let go and go for it.----Associated Press writer Michelle R. Smith in Coventry contributed to this report. ' ' '