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BOSTON RED SOX (0-1) AT BALTIMORE ORIOLES (1-0) Wednesday, April 2, 2014 • 7:05 p.m. ET • Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD RHP John Lackey (0-0, ---) vs. RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (0-0, ---) Game #2 • Road Game #2 • TV: NESN • Radio: WEEI 93.7 FM, WWZN 1510 AM (Spanish) 161 GAMES LEFT: Boston opened its 114th AL season COMEBACK KID: Grady Sizemore homered Monday in his Monday in Baltimore with a 2-1 loss...The Red Sox fell to 1st ML game in 922 days -- more than 2 and a half years REGULAR SEASON BREAKDOWN 55-58-1 all-time on Opening Day (excluding the 2nd game of -- on 9/22/11 with the Indians...He became the 1st major Overall ............................................. 0-1 twinbills in 1903, 1948, and 1982). leaguer with at least 850 games played to return to the big AL East Standing ...............T-4th, 1.0 GB leagues after a 2-year absence since Carlos Baerga, who At Home ........................................... 0-0 Before 2013, in which the Red Sox won their opener at On Road ........................................... 0-1 NYY, the previous 3 Red Sox teams to win the pennant was out of MLB from 2000-01 before returning in 2002, In day games .................................... 0-1 all lost their season-openers (2007, 2004, and 1986). also with the Red Sox (Source: Elias Sports Bureau). In night games ................................. 0-0 The homer was Sizemore’s 1st in 990 days since April ................................................. 0-1 OPENING ACT: On Monday, the Sox out-hit the O’s 9-6 but 7/15/11, also at Camden Yards. vs. AL East ........................................ 0-1 left 12 runners on base and went hitless in 10 AB with RISP... vs. AL Central ................................... 0-0 Sizemore has now homered in 3 of his 6 career vs. AL West ....................................... 0-0 Boston hurlers Jon Lester (1 BB, 8 SO in 7.0 IP) and Junichi Opening Day starts (also 2007 and 2008 with CLE). Tazawa (1 SO, 1.0 IP) combined for 9 strikeouts and 1 walk. vs. National League.......................... 0-0 vs. RH starter .................................... 0-1 It was Boston’s 1st opener in BAL since 4/4/04 (7-2 IGNITION EXPERT: Dustin Pedroia, 2-for-5 Monday, has vs. LH starter .................................... 0-0 loss at BAL), 11th overall (5-6), but just the 3rd over hit in all 8 career openers (.394, 13-for-33, 2 2B, 2 HR, 5 Leading after 6 innings .................... 0-0 the 25 seasons beginning in 1990, with all 3 of those RBI, 2 BB)...Pedroia is 1 of 3 in MLB with a hit on Opening Tied after 6 innings .......................... 0-1 in the last 14 years (2001, 2004, 2014). Day in all 8 years, 2007-14 (Prince Fielder, Jimmy Rollins). Trailing after 6 innings ..................... 0-0 Leading after 7 innings .................... 0-0 The Sox have now lost 4 straight Opening Day games Pedroia is now the only Red Sox player in the last 100 Tied after 7 innings .......................... 0-0 against BAL since a 2-0 win at Memorial Stadium to years to hit safely in his 1st 8 career Opening Day Trailing after 7 innings ..................... 0-1 begin 1982...They are 2-6 when opening against the games, all in consecutive years. Leading after 8 innings .................... 0-0 O’s since taking the 1st 3 in 3 straight years, 1955-57. Overall, it is the longest Opening Day hit streak by a Tied after 8 innings .......................... 0-0 Note that in 1955 and 1982, the Red Sox played their Red Sox since Carl Yastrzemski’s 13 from 1968-1980. Trailing after 8 innings ..................... 0-1 1st regular season games against an Orioles club that Red Sox score 1st ............................. 0-0 had already opened its season. 100 YEARS YOUNG: At 21 years and 181 days old yester- Opponents score fi rst ....................... 0-1 day, Xander Bogaerts became Boston’s youngest Opening Shutouts ........................................... 0-0 Scoring less than 3 runs ................... 0-1 ON THE ROAD: Monday marked the 74th time that the Day shortstop in exactly a century, since Everett Scott at 21 years, 146 days old in 1914. Scoring 3 or 4 runs ........................... 0-0 Red Sox opened the regular season on the road (32-41-1), Scoring 5 or more runs ..................... 0-0 and 4th in a row (2011 at TEX, 2012 at DET, 2013 at NYY)... Xander was the Red Sox’ 1st Opening Day starter age Red Sox hit HR ................................. 0-1 Including this year, Boston has opened on the road 16 of 19 21 or younger at any position since Dwight Evans at Red Sox hit 0 HR .............................. 0-0 seasons starting in 1996, going 7-9. 21 in 1973. 1-run games ..................................... 0-1 This was Boston’s 9th time opening against the 2-run games ..................................... 0-0 Orioles franchise in BAL (4-5), with each of the past 6 BACK AT IT: Last year the Sox posted their best team ERA Walk-offs .......................................... 0-0 of those games being played in the Charm City (2-5)... (3.79) since 2002 (3.75)...9 of the 10 pitchers who threw Extra innings (home) ........................ 0-0 Extra innings (road).......................... 0-0 These clubs last opened at Fenway Park in 1966. the most innings for Boston in the 2013 regular season are back with the club...The only exception is Ryan Dempster, Extra innings (total) ......................... 0-0 The Sox’ are winless in 3 Opening Days at Camden who announced this spring that he would not pitch in 2014. Series openers .................................. 0-1 Yards...Before that, Boston went 4-2 in its season Series fi nales .................................... 0-0 openers at Memorial Stadium. THE CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON: The 2013 Red Sox led Series W-L-T (home) ......................0-0-0 the AL and tied for the best record in MLB at 97-65 (.599) Series W-L-T (road) ........................0-0-0 LEFTY RECORD: Monday was Jon Lester’s 4th career en route to the franchise’s 8th World Series Championship. Series W-L-T (total) ........................0-0-0 Opening Day start (2011-14)...His 4 straight Opening Day Series sweeps (home) ...................... 0-0 The Red Sox won the deciding Game 6 of the 2013 Series sweeps (road) ........................ 0-0 starts passed Babe Ruth (1916-18) and Mel Parnell (1952- World Series over STL in Boston on 10/30...It was the Series sweeps (total) ........................ 0-0 54) for the longest streak by a left-hander in club history. club’s 1st WS clinch at home in 95 years, since Game Come-from-behind wins ..................... 0 It is the 5th-longest Opening Day streak for a Red Sox 6 of the 1918 WS at Fenway Park (2-1 over CHC). Innings batting around........................ 0 Games decided in last AB................. 0-0 starting pitcher overall, trailing only Pedro Martinez With the 2013 World Series victory, Boston completed (7, 1998-2004), Roger Clemens (7, 1988-94), Dennis the greatest turnaround season in baseball history... Eckersley (5, 1979-83), and Cy Young (5, 1904-08). No other World Series Champ had a winning pct. the VS. THE ORIOLES year before as low as Boston’s .426 mark in 2012. All-Time vs. O’s (since 1954) .... 527-450 CLOSE WITH O’S: The Red Sox have gone 8-12 against In Boston .................................. 268-217 the Orioles since the start of 2013, but 9 of those 12 losses REPETITION PROPOSITION: The 2014 Red Sox will at- In Baltimore ............................. 259-233 have been by 2 runs or less...BAL was the only AL East team tempt to become the 1st team to win back-to-back World At Camden Yards ...................... 103-72 with a winning record against the Sox last season (8-11). Series titles since the Yankees won 3 in a row, 1998-2000. 2014 vs. Orioles ............................... 0-1 The Red Sox have won consecutive World Series titles In Boston ........................................ 0-0 OPENING NOTES: On Monday, David Ortiz made his 10th once before, in 1915 and 1916...The only other time In Baltimore ................................... 0-1 Opening Day start for the Red Sox, all at DH (2004-12, the club won the AL crown in 2 straight years was 2014), tying Wade Boggs and Dom DiMaggio for 8th on the 1903 (won the WS) and 1904 (WS was not played). UPCOMING MILESTONES team’s all-time list (Yastrzemski is 1st with 22)...This was Milestone Player (current) Ortiz’s 12th career Opening Day start, all at DH, tying Don THREE OUT OF TEN: The Red Sox have won the World Se- 100 HR ............................... Pedroia (99) Baylor’s all-time record at the position (1977-88). ries in 3 of the last 10 years -- 2004, 2007, 2013 -- following 400 XBH ........................... Pedroia (399) Dustin Pedroia made his 8th Opening Day start, the an 86-year Championship drought...It marks the most titles 500 RBI ............................ Pedroia (493) 2nd most among current Red Sox, all at 2B from among MLB teams in the new century. 2007-13...He has the 2nd-most Opening Day starts at Since new ownership took over in 2002, the Red Sox MLB ALL-TIME HOME RUN LIST 2B in club history after Bobby Doerr (13). have won 1,098 games, 2nd in MLB to NYY’s 1,155. Rk Player HR A.J. Pierzynski made his 14th straight Opening Day 42 Juan Gonzalez 434 SOPHOMORE SKIPPER: John Farrell led the Red Sox to Andruw Jones 434 start (2001-14), the longest active streak at catcher... Paul Konerko 434 Only 2 actives have longer streaks overall: Torii Hunter the World Championship in 2013, his debut season as Red 45 Cal Ripken Jr.