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BOSTON (AP) – The Red Sox rotation of Pedro and a bunch of other
guys keeps outpitching the Yankees' big-name starters.
|  | | Frank Castillo outpitched his more expensive counterpart, throwing six scoreless innings against the Yankees. |
Bargain free agent Frank Castillo beat his big-bucks counterpart
Mike Mussina on Monday as Boston topped New York 4-1 to take three
of the four games in the opening series between the AL East rivals.
"You can't say, `We beat New York three games, it's over.'
You've got to keep going," Manny Ramirez said. "We're trying not
to get a big head."
Castillo (1-1), signed to a $4.5 million, two-year contract,
threw 65 pitches in six scoreless innings and retired 18 of his 20
batters, allowing only two singles to Scott Brosius.
"You really don't think about how much Mussina made," Castillo
said. "You're just competing against their lineup. If you make
(good) pitches, you're going to get outs. I try to keep it
simple."
Mussina (1-1), who got an $88.5 million, six-year deal, allowed
three runs on eight hits in seven innings and struck out six.
Neither starter walked a batter.
"It's one of those situations when it's been a tight series and
they've been pitching and hitting well," Mussina said.
The Red Sox didn't homer in the series but outscored the Yankees
14-10 and outhit them 40-28 to tie Toronto for first place at 9-4.
New York is 8-5.
"I felt good mechanically," Castillo said. "I had a good
cutter. Everything felt good."
The teams meet again in New York in a three-game series starting
Friday night.
Starters Paxton Crawford, Pedro Martinez and Hideo Nomo held an
edge over New York's Orlando Hernandez, Roger Clemens and Andy
Pettitte in the first three games – a 3-2 Boston win, a 3-2 New
York win and a 5-4 Boston victory. Martinez started Boston's only
loss.
Clemens, Pettitte and Mussina began the season trailing only
Martinez and Randy Johnson for the best winning percentage among
active pitchers.
Boston's strong pitching was more remarkable considering the
Yankees outscored Kansas City 30-14 in a three-game sweep of their
previous series.
"They have a great pitching staff, and we showed we can pitch
right with them," Boston's Lou Merloni said.
The Red Sox lead the majors with a 1.97 ERA compared to the
Yankees' 3.89.
"When you look at all those names on their staff they've got
people who are capable of doing what they're doing," New York
manager Joe Torre said. "Their pitchers deserve most of the
credit."
The Yankees played their seventh straight game without Bernie
Williams, who was in Puerto Rico with his ailing father.
"I'm sure you miss him, but when a guy's gone down in the past
we've never used it as an excuse," Tino Martinez said.
New York's only run came on Martinez's second homer of the
season in the eighth off Pete Schourek. Tim Wakefield got the last
three outs of the inning and Rod Beck recorded his first save.
"I'm not surprised they won three of four," Martinez said.
"They played better baseball."
Boston never trailed in the traditional 11 a.m. Patriots' Day
game after Darren Lewis tripled off Mussina in the first and scored
on Trot Nixon's groundout.
The Red Sox made it 2-0 in the fifth when Merloni doubled, took
third on Mike Lansing's bunt single and scored on Lewis' single
Boston added a run in the seventh. Brian Daubach led off with a
double. Merloni bunted to Mussina, but second baseman Alfonso
Soriano couldn't handle his throw at first and Daubach scored.
Shea Hillenbrand's ground out in the eighth drove in Boston's
final run.
Game notes
Brosius has hit in all 13 games, the only player in the
majors to hit safely in all his team's game this year. ... The game
is timed so that fans can flock to nearby Kenmore Square as Boston
Marathon runners approach the finish line. ... The Red Sox set a
record of 312,637 fans for their first 10 home games. They drew
33,373 Monday. The old record was 303,736 set in 1992. ... At noon,
two fighter jets that were part of the marathon festivities did a
fly-by over the stadium as Mussina was preparing to pitch to
Lansing. Mussina stepped off the mound until the din of the jets
subsided, then retired Lansing on a grounder. ... The Yankees had
just one hit in the first five innings for the second straight day.
... New York's first four batters – Chuck Knoblauch, Derek Jeter,
Paul O'Neill and David Justice – were 8-for-63 in the series. They
were 1-for-15 Monday.
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Boston 4
NY Yankees 1
Baltimore 6
Tampa Bay 2
Kansas City 5
Minnesota 3
Oakland 6
Anaheim 3
Seattle 9
Texas 7
Pittsburgh 3
Houston 0
NY Mets 4
Montreal 3
Atlanta 4
Florida 3
Philadelphia 0
Chicago Cubs 0
Arizona 2
St. Louis 1
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 Frank Castillo was in control of both his pitches and the Bronx Bombers' batters.
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Boston manager Jimy Williams talks about the keys to shutting down the Yankees.
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The season series is young, but Lou Merloni says any win over the Yankees is important.
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