Red Sox outclass Blue Jays to clinch series - Major League Baseball
Daisuke Matsuzaka threw seven strong innings as the Boston Red Sox surged past the Toronto Blue Jays 9-1 at Fenway Park on Sunday. After losing all the series played this season, Red Sox came back quite strongly to comprehensively clinch the four game series
against the Blue jays by 3-1.
Daisuke Matsuzaka, who went for plenty of runs and hits this season, had a better outing on Monday. He threw seven accomplished innings that allowed only one hit and earned him the first win of the season. He threw only 89 pitches, 58 for strikes, to complete
his seven innings that included a hit, a walk and three strike outs. Quite an impressive stat for a pitcher who is 1-2 after this outing with his ERA reduced to 6.43. Alfredo Aceves replaced him with a perfect innings that took only nine pitches to get three
Jays’ batters out. Tim Wakefield came at the end and gave a harmless one run in the ninth inning.
Ricky Romero started the proceeding for the Blue Jays and earned his second loss of the season with an expensive 4.1 innings. He waivered with his pitch and it took 109 pitches to complete his 4.1 Innings. He leaked five runs on eight hits and five walks.
Luis Perez, who came to support the failing team, did it completely wrong, as he too gave three runs in 1.1 innings. Octavio Dotel pitched a one run 1.1 innings. Casey Janssen threw a perfect innings that did not help out his teams cause much.
Scoring Summary:
1st inning:
Jed Lowrie hit Two RBI single to the right field bringing J.D. Drew and Dustin Pedroia at home.
3rd inning:
Kevin Youkilis scored on David Ortiz’ single to the right field.
5th inning:
Lowrie hit his second homer of the season towards left field that yielded two runs for the Red Sox as Ortiz scored.
6th inning:
Kevin Youkilis hit two run shot to the right that helped Adrian Gonzalez complete his run.
Lowrie scored on Carl Crawford’s double to the left field, increasing the Red Sox’ lead to eight.
7th inning:
Jacoby Ellsbury hit his fourth home run of the season, making it 9-0 for the Red Sox .
9th inning:
Yunel Escobar scored the only run for the Blue jays with his solo homer to the left center
Final Score: Boston Red Sox 1-9 Toronto Blue Jays
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