Red Sox Rattle Royals, 8 to 6

BOSTON: 4 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 - 8 12 1

KANSAS: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 - 6 10 1

My first Sunday morning at my favorite New England sports living bar of the 2010 season. Since last Sunday's Opening Night, the Boston Red Sox only have two wins out of the five games played. Today they look to be at .500. In the bar I'm sitting in a booth this season because of the reconfiguration of the space done by the new owners. The one dangerous aspect of my new placement is that darts are being thrown to my left. Hope I won't have to do much ducking! Some new faces (dart playing ones), but Rich is here, as is Andrew, of course. Watching the Kansas City feed of the game as the NESN broadcast is blacked out where I am. Oh well, at least I can enjoy the upcoming victory among Red Sox people.

Red Sox got to the Kansas City Royals starter early - Boston scored four runs in the first - and Meche left after one out in the fourth. And that was the last scoring inning for Boston. One disturbing factor in Kauffman Stadium today was the lack of field communication between Boston players. Two incidents and Ellsbury was involved in both of them - Ellsbury/Hall and Ellsbury/Beltre. The second miscommunication caused injury to Jacoby, but fortunately no ribs were broken - just bruising and swelling. Need to work on communicating on the run.

Meanwhile, in the bar, hardly recognized anyone and it is a little more crowded than usual for a Sunday morning. Perhaps the "new" New England sports living bar has attracted new patrons. The noise level has increased and made watching the game less than ideal. Manager Mike showed up, as well as Skiing Stephen - hurray, people I know! The game is taking longer than the first two games of this series and I only have the game being recorded for three hours - ugh! There is a first, second, and third achievement for Red Sox players today - first win for Buchholz, second save for Papelbon, and third homerun for Pedoria. Perhaps Boston can achieve three wins in a row tomorrow. That would be absolutely wonderful!

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BOSTON: Starting Pitcher: Clay Buchholz, Winning Pitcher: Clay Buchholz (1)

KANSAS: Starting Pitcher: Gil Meche, Losing Pitcher: Gil Meche

BOSTON: Save: Jonathan Papelbon (2)

BOSTON: Homerun: Dustin Pedroia (3)

KANSAS: Homeruns: Jose Guillen - two

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RED SOX: Wins: 3, Losses: 3, AL East Standings: Toronto, New York, Boston, Tampa Bay, Baltimore

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Next game: Monday 12 April 2010, 1:10 p.m.PT/4:10 p.m.ET, Minnesota Twins, Target Field, Jon Lester

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