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UNDEFEATED!!! Red Sox 7, Rangers 3

Published Monday, April 03, 2006 by Jacob Mann Jones | E-mail this post

Okay, okay I realize that we are only one game into the 2006 baseball season but the Red Sox are still UNDEFEATED!!! I had to get that one in while it lasts, as it is inevitable that our beloved olde towne team will eventually drop a contest this year. Though you still have to sit back and light that victory cigar this evening as their 7-3 win over the Texas Rangers this afternoon at Ameriquest Field puts them on pace to win an astonishing 162 games this year!

In the bottom of the ninth newly acquired Coco Crisp answered an important question - would he be able to replace Johnny D in the field? Crisp made a fantastic jumping grab to record the second out of the inning and prevent what appeared to be a two-run RBI double by Laynce Nix. A run did score but the spectacular glove work by Coco saved at least one run if not more and halted what was shaping up to be a Rangers rally in the final frame.

In what was the first Opening Day win since 2000 for the Sox the rehabilitated Curt Schilling took to the mound for the “W”. Schill put a lot of doubts to rest this afternoon as he threw 117 pitches and appeared in midseason form as he walked one and allowed only a single extra-base hit, a two-run homer to Hank Blalock in the sixth, to the powerful Texas lineup.

It appeared as Curt had found the fountain of youth this afternoon as he was in total control of all of his pitches and his velocity hit in the mid-90’s. He struck out five and allowed two earned runs in seven innings of work.

Jonathan Papelbon came on to pitch a 1-2-3 eighth. Keith Foulke pitched a rocky ninth inning but was bailed out by Crisp’s catch. Foulke surrendered two hits and a single run. He looked rusty in his regular season debut. Texas could have easily poured on more runs versus Foulke in the ninth - though all of Red Sox Nation is elated that it wasn’t to be on this cool April afternoon.

Bo Sox captain Jason Varitek hit a two-out, two-run double to right center in the fourth. David Ortiz hit a soaring two-run homer down the right field line in the fifth to follow a two-run double to right center by Mark Loretta. Big Papi also added an RBI double in the seventh for good measure. Mike Lowell hit a home run to lead off the eighth inning. Kevin Youkilis was the only Red Sox starter who failed to garner a hit off of the Texas pitchers.

(photo courtesy of the Boston Globe.

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