Red Sox 2, Rays 0, Final - Oct. 10, 2008

The Sox Optimists' Catalog (or, 10 Reasons the Rays are Going Down)
bleacherreport.com 10/10/2008 — Good ordinary gloom is more respectful of tradition, but I could never help being an optimist. A Red Sox fan, yes, and an optimist, even before 2004. Expect the worst, but hope for the best. It's still my policy     When we headed ...

Red Sox vs Rays ALCS Game 1 Notes & Lineups
soxanddawgs.com 10/10/2008 — I don’t know about you but I am ready for this series to finally get underway tonight. In just a few short hours or so, the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays will take the field to start what should be a very entertaining American League Championship Series.

Funny Sign Seen Entering Connecticut
soxanddawgs.com 10/10/2008 — While we all anxiously await Game 1 of the ALCS between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays tonight, let’s take a look at this sign seen when you cross the border into Connecticut.

Tampa Bay Rays Fans Can’t Spell
soxanddawgs.com 10/10/2008 — OctoNer? Really? OctoNer? WTF

Vitale upset about Manny's Boston exit
boston.com 10/10/2008 — Excerpted from today's Names column Dick Vitale is to the Tampa Bay Rays what Ben Affleck is to the BoSox. ESPN's high priest of hoops is the Rays' No. 1 fan. "It's an exciting time down here,'' Dickie V told us yesterday. "I've been a season ...

Go Rays, er, Sox
beloblog.com 10/10/2008 — By KEVIN McNAMARA ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - There are plenty of conflicted baseball fans in these parts thanks to the sudden and improbable rise of the Tampa Bay Rays. Meet Karina Zabala, 22. She works the front desk at the downtown ...

Dice-K’s Pitching Leads Red Sox To 2-0 Win In Game 1 Of The ALCS
soxanddawgs.com 10/11/2008 — Despite a wild and crazy 1st inning, Daisuke Matsuzaka had 6 no-hit innings in his 7 innings of work as the Boston Red Sox went on to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-0 in front of 35,001 at Tropicana Field. The win gives the Red Sox a 1-0 advantage in the best-of-7 ALCS.

After 3,846 Days, It’s the Rays’ Time
nytimes.com 10/11/2008 — The American League Championship Series is about the storied Red Sox trying to subdue the storybook Rays, who took a long time to crawl from their first major league game to Friday night’s opener. >

ALCS Miscellany: For Rays, June Battle With Sox Was Catalyst To Cinderella Season —

ALCS notes: Another Rhode Island connection — Projo Sox Blog

ALCS Notes: Dice-K halted - literally — Projo Sox Blog

Houdini Does It Again — Fenway West - A Boston Red Sox Blog

ALCS, Game 1: Advantage, Red Sox — Matsuzaka Keeps Rays Hitless For Six Innings En Route To 2-0 Win —

Papelbon's Record Night — Projo Sox Blog

Cold as Dice -- Matsuzaka comes through — Red Sox Monster

Matsuzaka shuts down Rays, 2-0 — Over the Monster

Dice-K takes no-hitter into 7th, up 1-0 (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 10/11/2008
Daisuke Matsuzaka took a no-hit bid into the seventh inning and Jed Lowrie had a sacrifice fly, giving the Boston Red Sox a 1-0 lead over the Tampa Bay Rays in the opener of the AL championship series Friday night. Matsuzaka struck out eight and ...

ALCS | Dice-K pitches Red Sox over Rays in Game 1 — The Seattle Times: Sports 10/11/2008
Unhittable most of the game, Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston Red Sox taught Tampa Bay all about dominant postseason pitching.

Sox Win as Dice-K takes a No-No Into the Seventh — Red Sox & MLB - BostonHerald.com 10/11/2008
Unhittable most of the game, Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston Red Sox taught Tampa Bay all about dominant postseason pitching. Matsuzaka took a no-hit bid into the seventh...

Dice-K pitches Red Sox by Rays in Game 1 (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 10/11/2008
Unhittable most of the game, Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston Red Sox taught Tampa Bay all about dominant postseason pitching. Matsuzaka took a no-hit bid into the seventh inning and the defending World Series champions played a little better in every ...

Red Sox win opener at Tampa Bay — L.A. Times - Baseball News 10/11/2008
Daisuke Matsuzaka takes a no-hitter into the seventh inning to lead Boston to a 2-0 victory. > Unhittable most of the game, Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston ...

Dice-K pitches Red Sox over Rays in ALCS opener — Boston.com -- Baseball News 10/11/2008
Unhittable most of the game, Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston Red Sox taught Tampa Bay all about dominant postseason pitching.

ALCS: Matsuzaka Carries a No-Hitter Into Seventh Inning to Lift Red Sox — Wash Post MLB 10/11/2008
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Oct. 10 -- By midway through the first inning, they must have been running through complex bullpen scenarios on the Boston Red Sox' bench, so awful was the start to Daisuke Matsuzaka's night, so tenuous were his chances of ...

The View from Landsdowne Street: Red Sox Win the Battle, War Still To Come — Bleacher Report - MLB 10/11/2008
Was there any better indicator of the future of this rivalry than in the eighth inning when the embodiment of the new-look Tampa Rays, Evan Longoria, squared off with the talented Justin Masterson of the Red Sox? In what was the key at-bat of the ...