The Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 7-5 on Thurday night to improve their record to 10-7 on the year.  The Red Sox were all over Mike Mussina as they knocked him out of the game after only three innings where he gave up seven hits and three earned runs.

Manny Ramirez led the Red Sox with two home runs and three RBI.  J.D. Drew wasn’t too far behind Ramirez as he had two RBI.  Dustin Pedroia and Jason Varitek both had one RBI.

 Josh Beckett pitched eight strong innings for the Red Sox to pick up the win.  Jonathan Papelbon pitched the ninth inning to pick up his save of the season even though he allowed two runs to score.

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The Boston Red Sox scored five runs in the final three innings of Monday nights game against the Cleveland Indians and went on to beat the Indians by the score of 6-4.  Wow, what a comeback by the Red Sox!  With the come from behind win, the Red Sox record is now 8-6 on the season.

Manny Ramirez hit a two run home run in the 9th inning for the game winning hit and runs.  Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis also had two RBI’s to go along with Ramirez’s two RBI.

Mike Timlin pitched the 8th inning to record the win.  Jonathan Papelbon picked up his fifth save of the season after closing down the Indians in the 9th inning.

Starting pitcher Jon Lester got rocked in his 4.1 innings.  He allowed five hits and four earned runs.  Lester was wild the entire game as he also walked five batters.  Julian Taverez pitched 2.2 scoreless innings as he came in after Lester.

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The Boston Red Sox got the season off to the right start as they beat the Oakland Athletics 6-5 in 10 innings as the two teams opened up the season in Japan.

Dice-K was shaky in the no decision and will need to do better throughout the season to really help out the ball team.  I’m sure he was pretty nervous pitching back in Japan, so lets see how he pitches in his next game.

Manny Ramirez led the Red Sox at the plate as he had two doubles that both plated two runners.  One being in the 6th inning, and the other coming in the 10th inning that proved to be the game winner for the Red Sox.

Jonathan Papelbon picked up his first save of the season, although it didn’t come easy either as the A’s battled back in the 10th inning but still fell one run short.

The two teams will battle it out once again before heading back to the United States.

Jonathan Papelbon didn’t get the $900,000 deal that he was hoping for, but he did get a pretty nice raise to $775,000 from the Boston Red Sox.  Papelbon only has two years of service under his belt so he wasn’t eligible for salary arbitration yet.  If he continues to pitch good, he will have a very nice pay riase next off season.

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