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Game 1: Mistakes Were Made
Published 3/25/2008 by Eric at Keep Your Sox On: From Brooklyn to Boston
Final Score: Boston Red Sox 6, Oakland Athletics 5 After the game ended, ESPN 2 had a phone conversation with a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle, asking her if she thought if both teams played well. She took this enormous softball and whiffed it completely, pointing out one flaw (I believe she said something about Matsuzaka's first few innings) in a veritable sea of pretty ugly mess-ups. I mean, hey, I'm glad we won, but I'm still looking the gift horse in the mouth by pointing out all of the terrible things both teams did. Call it Opening Day jitters, call it needing time to gel as a team, call it the effects of an early ending to Spring Training, ...

Game 1: Red Sox win wild season opener
Published 3/25/2008 by The Bottomline at The Bottom Line
Red Sox 6 Athletics 5 It took 10 innings and it wans't pretty, but the Red Sox won the first game of the 2008 season 6-5 over the Athletics. Daisuke Matsuzaka struggled out of the gate and walked 5 batters in 5 innings of work, but he also had 6 strikeouts and only gave up 2 hits - one just happened to be a home run. Matsuzaka had a chance to ear the win when Manny and Brandon Moss drove in three runs in the top of the 6th, but Kyle Snyder gave upa 2-run homer in relief, making it 4-3 A's. Moss would tie it in the 9th off A's closer Houston Street, but Manny would not be denined the Bottom Line Hero Award. With a chance to win the game for ...