Today was pretty low-key, truth be told. I did some spring cleaning and played grocery getter. The highlight of the day was following the Red Sox/Royals game on the satelite radio. Daisuke Matsuzaka picthed a gem in his major league debut. Here's the line:
seven innings, 108 pitches, six hits, one run, one walk, 10 K's
Boston: 4
Kansas City: 1
W: Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-0)
L: Zack Greinke (0-1)
S: Jonathon Papelbon (1)
The guy threw double-digit strikeouts in his first regular season MLB game. Listening to it on the radio, it seemed as though many in KC were mesmerized by his stuff. The guy is for real, and its looking like the Sox have an upperhand now on the Yankees, who are struggling to assemble a good rotation. Here's a great write-up of the game from sportswriter and Red Sox fan Bill Simmons.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/070405&sportCat=mlb
Ahem. But lets not get carried away...we're just three games into the season.
Here's my first official prediction for the 2007 season: Daisuke will continue to impress everyone with his gryoball double-dragon magic, racking up W's, until he gets to the Bronx for the first time. The Yankees will hammer Dice-K with 6-7 runs within the first three/four innings, and he'll get his first L. You heard it here first folks.
More soon.
Andy
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