Yankees ace Chien-Ming Wang (3-0) pitched a gem last night at Fenway as the Yankees defeated the Red Sox, 4-1 in the teams first meeting of the season. Wang pitched a complete game, two-hitter, giving up an earned run with no walks and three strikeouts. He only needed 93 pitches to dispatch of Boston.
Red Sox (5-6) starter Clay Buchholz matched Wang for a while, going six innings and giving up four hits, one run (earned), three walks and three strikeouts.
The Yankees (6-5) opened the scoring in the fifth when Jose Molina doubled in Hideki Matsui. The Sox answered in the bottom of the inning when J.D. Drew hit a solo home run into the bullpen in right. It looked like Bobby Abreu was going to catch it but it ticked off his glove and into the bullpen to tie it up.
Mike Timlin (fresh from Pawtucket) made his season debut and it wasn't a good one. He gave up a solo shot to Jason Giambi in the seventh and Melky Cabrera added a sac fly. Timlin took the loss.
The Boston bats could never get anything going. They weren't able to get walks off Wang and they hit a bunch of fly ball outs (10). The only other hit was a bunt single (obviously) by Coco Crisp in the ninth. David Ortiz is officially in the worst slump of his career: he's 3 for 39 this season. Yikes.
The rivals get back at it this afternoon as Sox ace Josh Beckett takes the hill against Mike Mussina.
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