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Manny Ramirez will return to the bigs on Friday night after a 50-game suspension for violating baseball’s drug policy. His return should be nothing short of a spectacle.

It’ll be the start of the Fourth of July weekend, and thousands of blue-clad Los Angeles Dodgers fans are expected to be at sold-out Petco Park to support the dreadlocked slugger in the opener of a three-game series against the San Diego Padres.

The specific violation by Ramirez has not been revealed, but testing by Major League Baseball showed that he had testosterone in his body that was not natural and came from an artificial source, according to two people with knowledge of the case. The sources said that in addition to the artificial testosterone, Ramirez was identified as using the female fertility drug human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG.

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