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March 13, 2012

Opening Salvo: Red Sox 1, Yankees 0 

Red Sox - 000 000 001 - 1  4  0
Yankees - 000 000 000 - 0  3  3
Pedro Ciriaco, who won Monday's game with an extra-inning home run, scored the game's only run Tuesday night.

Leading off the top of the ninth, he dropped a single into right field that skipped away from Zolio Almonte. The relay throw from second baseman David Adams to the plate was extremely wild and Ciriaco, who had been held at third, trotted home.

Doubront (4-2-0-1-3, 75) laboured a bit, but allowed only one of his 12 outs to be hit out of the infield (his last batter). ... Padilla (3-0-0-0-4, 27) retired all nine batters he faced in the 6th-7th-8th innings. ... After the first inning, no Yankee baserunner got past first base. ... Boston pitchers struck out 13 Yankees.
Example
Red Sox 
Aviles, SS
Pedroia, 2B
Ellsbury, DH
Saltalamacchia, C
Middlebrooks, 3B
Anderson, 1B
Linares, CF
Kroeger, RF
Hassan, LF
  
Felix Doubront, Michael Bowden, Vicente Padilla,
Junichi Tazawa, Brandon Duckworth, Will Inman
Yankees
Gardner, CF
Martin, C
Rodriguez, 3B
Teixeira, 1B
Ibanez, DH
Jones, RF
Nunez, SS
Hall, 2B
Nix, LF
  
Ivan Nova, Mariano Rivera, Boone Logan
The game will be shown on MLBTV, YES and the MLB Network, but not NESN. Game thread here.

Joe Girardi:
I am sure there will be a different excitement level in the stands. I am not sure our players will get too caught up in it because I tell them not to get too caught up in it during the season. ... I don't want guys going out and doing something crazy tomorrow so they miss six weeks of the season.
Bobby Valentine, in jest:
We want to set the tone ... We really want to let them know who we are and send a message.
After another exhibition match-up next Thursday, the teams clash at Fenway on April 20-21-22, in Boston's 13th, 14th, and 15th games of the regular season.
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4 comments:

  1. JereMarch 13, 2012 at 1:45 PM

    They have that NESN Plus channel just sitting there, why not use it? Precedent: they used it to show an North Carolina-Duke football game while the Bruins were on regular NESN. I know this is preseason, but it's a game way more people in the area would watch than a college football game with no teams from the region.

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  2. FenFanMarch 13, 2012 at 2:58 PM

    So I would guess that it's blacked out in Beantown? :-(

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  3. JereMarch 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM

    Well, the MLBN version would have been blacked out in NESN land had NESN been carrying this game. But they're not so everybody in NESN land gets the MLBN version.

    (Though I was a little worried they'd somehow black it out anyway--but it's confirmed, it's on.)

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  4. FenFanMarch 14, 2012 at 4:51 AM

    Well, the MLBN version would have been blacked out in NESN land had NESN been carrying this game. But they're not so everybody in NESN land gets the MLBN version.

    Wasn't I surprised as well to find the game on TV last night! Miracles do happen...

    After watching several innings of YES coverage (I missed the final two innings and subsequently Ciriaco's trip around the bases), I found them to be no less annoying than NESN's typical banter.

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