The Derek Lowe-Carolyn Hughes Affair www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=10965; www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=10948 is finally being picked up by the mainstream press after about a week of denial.

Boston – Derek Lowe, the ex-Red Sox hurler who was the hero of last year’s ALCS and the World Series, has abandoned his heartbroken wife and kids and moved in with a TV reporter who covers his new team, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

That’s according to Trinka Lowe, Derek’s wife of seven years and the mother of their three kids, who said her husband has left her for Fox Sports Net’s Carolyn Hughes. “This is definitely the worst time of my life,” Trinka told the Track. “I don’t even know how to describe it. I still love him. He’s still the father of our children. But I don’t want this to be glamorized like some other relationships that didn’t start out so well. I don’t want this to be portrayed as `They were there for each other when his marriage fell apart.’ That’s not true. The marriage fell apart because of this other person.” Trinka said she made FSN aware of the relationship and a representative promised to investigate. A spokesman for the network said yesterday that Hughes, who hosts the FSN pregame show, “Dodgers Dugout,” has been taken off the beat pending the outcome of that inquiry. “As soon as we were made aware by Mrs. Lowe that a potential problem existed we removed Carolyn from covering the Dodgers,” Lou D’Ermilio told us. “At present we’re investigating to determine whether a conflict of interest did exist and beyond that we can’t comment on a personnel issue.” Hughes did not return our calls. For that matter, neither did Lowe’s agent, Scott Boras. And Dodgers spokesman John Olguin declined to comment on the mound man’s marital mess. “A player’s home life is personal,” he said, “and as such the Dodgers will not comment.”