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MLB. For the first time in Boston sports history, the four pieces of distinctive championship hardware from each of the major sports — the Lombardi Trophy, the Stanley Cup, the Larry O’Brien Trophy and MLB’s Commissioner’s Trophy — were in the same location at Fenway yesterday afternoon.
The trophies were on hand to commemorate the second World Series Championship in four seasons for the Red Sox, and the ensuing ring ceremony enacted the finishing touches on a brilliant 2007 baseball season.
The Sox then followed all the sports-style pomp and circumstance by going out and showing that they’re hungry for more this season by taming the Tigers with a 5-0 score at Fenway’s home opener.
“Today was a good way to say goodbye to ’07,” said Sox manager Terry Francona. “There’s been a lot going on and today was a good way to start fresh and go about our business. It was a wonderful day for the organization.”
Daisuke Matsuzaka continued his early run of brilliance this season by shutting down the Detroit offense over 6 2/3 innings, and the Sox offense chipped away for five runs in the workmanlike
victory.
Matsuzaka the mound artist scattered four hits and four walks, and added seven strikeouts to raise his American League-leading total to 22 on the season.
The Boston offense didn’t exactly overpower crafty lefty Kenny Rogers, but instead treated the southpaw as if he were his country-and-western singing namesake: know when to walk and know when to hit away.
The Sox offense accounted for 12 base runners through the first five innings and built up a 3-0 lead on a pair of sacrifice flies by Coco Crisp and Kevin Youkilis.
Manny Ramirez mixed in a little bit of thunder in the third inning when he rocked a line drive off the center field wall for a hustle triple, and then scored on an errant infield throw attempting to nail him at third.
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