Red Sox Flattened Once Again
Boston’s Comeback Not Good Enough In Oakland
The Boston Red Sox are without any wind in their sails as their 162-game voyage is just underway.
Hopefully the forecast calls for some wind and some wins.
Boston (2-6) fell to the A’s in 12-innings last night as Travis Buck’s infield single in the bottom of the 12th sealed the deal for the A’s and the doom of the Bo-Sox.
The Red Sox have now dropped to 2-6 which is their worst start to a season since 1996. Daisuke Matsuzaka looked even worse last night than in his first outing as he couldn’t make it past the first inning, allowing five hits, five runs, and two walks while throwing 43 pitches.
Dice-K was on the mound with a 3-0 lead but Oakland’s five-run first gave them a 5-3 lead going into the fifth when Boston’s Mike Lowell tied the game with an rbi-single.
However, Buck’s game winning rbi-single flattened the hopes of Kevin Youkilis and company of winning the series.
Youkilis remains hot, going 2-for-5, and keeping his average above .500. J.D. Drew had three hits for the Sox and Justin Masterson pitched four innings of scoreless ball.
Boston will look to avoid the sweep this afternoon as the Sox now hold the second worse record in the AL edging out the Cleveland Indians as the only other team to have a worse start.
The Red Sox will look to Tim Wakefield to get the Boston ship back on track as the knuckleballer faces Brett Anderson at the Coliseum.
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