Red Sox are BACK

With Baseball season underway it’s time for the Red Sox to play ball. In the season opener, the Boston Red Sox took on the Detroit Tigers as Boston’s pitcher Jon Lester squared off on the mound against Detroit’s Justin Verlander. Although baseball is not this bloggers favorite sport, it is America pastime sport of choice so it’s only right that I incorporate some statistics about the game.

The red sox struggled at the plate only posting 5 hits for the entire game compared to Detroit’s 10. Not only did they post such low hitting numbers, but superstars like Ellsbury and Youkilis went 0-4 and neglected to help their team offensively. As you can imagine the game went very slow and the first real action took place in the 7^th inning when Detroit scored the first run of the game off of a double.

Following the 7^th inning, the Red Sox did not score in the 8^th however once again Detroit struck back scoring one more run in the bottom of the 8^th to take the lead 2-0. They scored off a sacrifice fly to center field.

Going into the 9^th it appeared that all was lost for the Red Sox. Then David Ortiz had a sacrifice fly that helped Pedroia score bringing the score to 2-1. Shortly after that, Ryan Sweeney hit a deep triple that drove in the tying run before the top of the inning was over. With this game being in Detroit, they had a chance to seal it in the bottom of the 9^th and that’s exactly what they did via a walk off hit to left field.

Now the Red Sox are 0-1 on the season as they move forward. Do they have what it takes this year?

If you would like to view all the stats for the game, click on All the box score information!