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Baseball Today: Thursday, May 8
Published 5/8/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... STARTING OVER: The string of strong performances from Red Sox starting pitchers was broken by Clay Buchholz, who allowed 10 hits and 5 runs before being yanked after four innings. Krasner has the details in his postgame notebook, which includes items on the strike-'em-out-throw-'em-out double play executed by the Sox that ended the eighth inning, Dustin Pedroia's pinch-hit single in the eighth that gave Boston a 9-8 lead, and an interesting night for Kevin Youkilis. ...

Boston Red Sox News & Notes - 5/8
Published 5/8/2008 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
... For the first time in a while, the Red Sox didn’t get good starting pitching. Clay Buchholz was subpar last night as he gave up 10 hits and 5 runs in just 4 innings of work. He did strike out 6 and only walked 1 batter. Julian Tavarez pitched for the first time in what seems like months and was, how can we say this delicately, awful. The Red Sox just had cut the lead to a run at 5-4 until Yo-Yo allowed 3 runs on 4 hits. ...