OT: Red Sox @ Twins, 2.28.08

by Randy Booth on Feb 29, 2008 5:39 PM EST in News

First open thread of the season. Woo-hoo! Daisuke Matsuzaka gets the start with Hideki Okajima immediately following him after, I assume, two innings of work. Here's the lineup:

Lugo, ss
Pedroia, 2b
Ortiz, dh
Ramirez, lf
Lowell, 3b
Youkilis, 1b
Varitek, c
Crisp, cf
Kielty, rf

No JD Drew or Jacoby Ellsbury, but it's still a pretty solid lineup. I'm not sure how much action we'll get in the comments, but you know what? It's the first real game so let's do an open thread! Woo-hoo! Baseball!

Life is back to normalcy...

(Sidenote: I'm going to start doing player projections next week. I'll take suggestions for who we should do. Maybe we'll even do the entire starting nine with the rotation and key members of the bullpen.)

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Re: OT: Red Sox @ Twins, 2.28.08

40 minutes and counting until actual baseball games are on TV... I've been waiting for this since October 29 :D

by Liza on Feb 29, 2008 6:26 PM EST reply actions

Re: OT: Red Sox @ Twins, 2.28.08

Only four months later :)

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by Randy Booth on Feb 29, 2008 6:26 PM EST up reply actions

Re: OT: Red Sox @ Twins, 2.28.08

Lugo grounded to short for the first out.

Pedroia! Wait--just grounded to second.

by Liza on Feb 29, 2008 7:07 PM EST reply actions

Re: OT: Red Sox @ Twins, 2.28.08

Papi singled to shallow right and Manny flied to center. That'd be three outs. Here comes Dice-K and the bottom of the inning!

by Liza on Feb 29, 2008 7:11 PM EST reply actions

Re: OT: Red Sox @ Twins, 2.28.08

Dice-K threw just 12 pitches over two innings, 8 for strikes. Okie threw pretty well, lots of break on all his balls, but I don't think we saw the Doki-Doki this time around.

It's still 0-0 in the top of the 4th.

by Liza on Feb 29, 2008 7:53 PM EST reply actions

Re: OT: Red Sox @ Twins, 2.28.08

Game now coming along quite nicely, 4-0 bottom of the fifth.

Nice to see Lowrie in action.

by thelardfather on Feb 29, 2008 8:45 PM EST reply actions

Re: OT: Red Sox @ Twins, 2.28.08

Everyone looking good: 5-0 Sox in the top of the sixth. Happy to see the young guys out there and producing. Oki and Timlin looked good, missed Dice-K though.

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by Randy Booth on Feb 29, 2008 8:50 PM EST reply actions