April 5, 2007 Red Sox 13, Royals 1

Daisuke Matsuzaka's major league debut goes off without a hitch, and the offense gives him plenty of support as the Sox sweep the Royals and go to 3-0 on the season. A 16-hit attack was more than enough for Dice-K, who goes 7 solid innings scattering 5 hits and striking out 7. Manny's 2 early homeruns gave the Sox a 3-0 lead, and the Sox broke the game open with a 9 run, 12 batter 7th inning. The runs scored as follows: single runs scoring on a Coco Crisp single, Dustin Pedroia single, Julio Lugo single, and a David Ortiz double. Mike Lowell's 3 RBI triple and Jason Varitek's 2 run homer capped the inning. On another note, the Minnesota Twins are also 3-0 by sweeping the Baltimore Orioles. What is amazing about that is the Twins won the three games by scores of 1-0, 6-0 and 2-0, meaning the Orioles did not score a run the entire series, and therefore have not scored a run yet this season!!

Strat-O-Matic Report

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BOXSCORE: 2007 Boston Red Sox At 2007 Kansas City Royals             4/5/2007
 
  Red Sox            AB  R  H RBI AVG     Royals             AB  R  H RBI AVG
  J.Lugo SS           4  1  1  1 .214     D.Dejesus CF        4  0  0  0 .083  
  K.Youkilis 1B       5  0  2  1 .267     E.German 2B         4  0  0  0 .000  
  D.Ortiz DH          5  1  1  1 .286     M.Teahen RF         4  0  1  0 .583  
  M.Ramirez LF        5  3  4  3 .538     E.Brown DH          4  1  1  0 .375  
  J.Drew RF           4  1  0  0 .182     A.Gordon 3B         3  0  0  0 .091  
  M.Lowell 3B         5  2  2  3 .364     R.Shealy 1B         4  0  2  1 .429  
  J.Varitek C         5  2  2  2 .273     R.Gload LF          3  0  0  0 .100  
  C.Crisp CF          5  1  2  1 .333     J.Buck C            3  0  1  0 .143  
  D.Pedroia 2B        4  2  2  1 .417     T.Pena Jr SS        3  0  2  0 .333  
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         Totals      42 13 16 13                 Totals      32  1  7  1
 
 
Red Sox......... 2 0 0  1 0 0  9 1 0  - 13 16  0
Royals.......... 0 0 0  1 0 0  0 0 0  -  1  7  1
 
Red Sox (3-0)            IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
D.Matsuzaka WIN(1-0)      7       5   1   1   1   7   0  91   1.29
J.Pineiro                 2       2   0   0   0   2   0  22   0.00
Totals                    9       7   1   1   1   9   0
 
Royals (0-3)             IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
Z.Greinke LOSS(0-1)       6       8   6   6   0   4   2  99   9.00
J.Gobble                  0 2/3   2   2   2   0   0   0  18  16.20
J.Peralta                 2 1/3   6   5   5   1   2   1  54  13.50
Totals                    9      16  13  13   1   6   3
 
ATTENDANCE- 17,352 DATE- Thursday, April 5th 2007 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good
T- 2:49
LEFT ON BASE- Red Sox: 4  Royals: 5
DOUBLE PLAYS- Red Sox: 2  Royals: 1
ERRORS- J.Buck
DOUBLES- D.Ortiz(3rd), M.Ramirez(1st), C.Crisp(1st), D.Pedroia(3rd),
         E.Brown(1st), R.Shealy(1st)
TRIPLES- M.Lowell(1st)
HOME RUNS- M.Ramirez-2(2nd), J.Varitek(1st)
STOLEN BASES- C.Crisp(1st), D.Pedroia(1st)
SACRIFICE FLIES- J.Lugo
WALKS- J.Drew, A.Gordon
STRIKE OUTS- J.Lugo, K.Youkilis-2, M.Lowell, C.Crisp, D.Pedroia, D.Dejesus-2,
             M.Teahen, E.Brown-3, A.Gordon-3
GIDP- D.Dejesus
 
Left fielder Manny Ramirez launched 2 homeruns and had 3 RBI at Kauffman
Stadium as the Boston Red Sox embarrassed the Kansas City Royals by the
lopsided score of 13 to 1.
 
Ramirez enjoyed a fine day at the plate.  He smashed a two-run homer in the
1st inning, lofted a solo-blast 'downtown' (his 2nd of the season) in the 4th
inning, ripped a base-knock in the 7th inning and doubled in the 8th inning.
Boston out-hit Kansas City for the game, 16 hits to 7.  
 
The winning pitcher was Daisuke Matsuzaka(1-0) who allowed 1 run in 7 innings.
Zack Greinke(0-1) was the loser.  'They made a couple of mistakes and I took
full advantage,' Ramirez said 'next time I'm sure they'll pitch me tougher.'

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