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In The Silo: Dice-K Strong In Rehab Start For PawSox
By Administrator | June 17, 2008
Daisuke Matsuzaka made a triumphant return to the mound on Monday night, leading the PawSox to a 9-6 win over the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs (PHI) in Allentown.
Dice-K worked five innings, allowing two runs on three hits and a walk while striking out five. He faced just twelve men over the first four innings with the only batter reaching on a fourth inning error… he struck out the side in the second. He finally tired, allowing two singles and an rbi-double in the fifth inning… the Pigs second run scored on a Matsuzaka wild pitch.
Dice-K had good control, throwing 47 of 65 pitches for strikes.
Pawtucket scored twice in the first inning on a Jed Lowrie rbi-single and Chris Carter’s sac fly, and then scored two more runs in the second inning on Jonathan Van Every’s two-run home run (14).
George Kottaras hit a solo home run (11) in the sixth… Keith Ginter hit his own tworun shot (6) in the seventh inning… and Sean Danielson and Chris Carter added rbi-singles in the last two innings to account for the final score.
With the PawSox leading 9-3 going into the ninth, reliever Eric Hull allowed three runs on five consecutive hits… Chris Smith came on with runners at first and second and one out to retire the final twb batters of the game to pick up his eighth save.
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