Dice-K has still not found his grove and ended up with his 4th loss of the season today. He gave up a homer in the bottom of the first to Young and it went downhill from there. It was not the typical Matsuzaka type of outing since he didn’t walk anyone; he just left too many pitches out over the middle of the plate and now has an ERA of 7.33. The Rangers had 5 runs on 10 hits in the game.
The Red Sox offense was flat again getting just 4 hits off of the Rangers starter Padilla and none off of their pen. Kotsay had two hits and a home run in the game. Jacoby Ellsbury had to leave the game in the 5th with a strained right shoulder. Kotsay and Baldelli had to Rochambeau to see who would play center in his place.
Red Sox lose 6-3 BOX SCORE
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Rangers | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 1 |
| Red Sox | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
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