Red Sox Drop the Rubber Game to the Rangers

Dice-K has still not found his grove and ended up with his 4th loss of the season today. He gave up a homer in the bottom of the first to Young and it went downhill from there. It was not the typical Matsuzaka type of outing since he didn't walk anyone; he just left too many pitches out over the middle of the plate and now has an ERA of 7.33. The Rangers had 5 runs on 10 hits in the game.

The Red Sox offense was flat again getting just 4 hits off of the Rangers starter Padilla and none off of their pen. Kotsay had two hits and a home run in the game. Jacoby Ellsbury had to leave the game in the 5th with a strained right shoulder. Kotsay and Baldelli had to Rochambeau to see who would play center in his place.

Red Sox lose 6-3 BOX SCORE

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Rangers	1	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	6	12	1
Red Sox	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	0