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Off the Florida Keys, a guy puts on a hitting show…

Coco Crisp went 0 for 3 but is hitting .500 (8 for 16). In his first at-bat he took a huge cut and came up empty, with his feet well out of the box, a la Ichiro Suzuki. ‘‘It wasn’t no Ichiro," Crisp said. ‘‘It was a Cocomo."

I’m not sure what to think about “Cocomo” taking off as a term. But boy, thinking about the Florida Keys does take me back.

Insert “Tom Cruise from Cocktail” pic, since we’re randomly riffing on “Kokomo”: