Getty Images More progress for Boston’s Daisuke Matsuzaka.
According to Dan Hickling of the Boston Globe, the Japanese right-hander allowed just one earned run over 4 2/3 innings Saturday for the Double-A Portland Sea Dogs. It was his second minor league rehab start, and he reported no issues whatsoever with his surgically-repaired right elbow.
Matsuzaka is throwing all of his pitches and being clocked regularly in the lower-90s with his fastball. If all continues to go well, he could join the Red Sox starting rotation at some point in early June.
Dice-K has a 4.25 ERA, 1.40 WHIP and 8.2 K/9 in 622 2/3 career major league innings (spanning five years).
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- hushbrother - Apr 29, 2012 at 11:21 AM
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Just when things were going well for the Red Sox …
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- mornelithe - Apr 29, 2012 at 12:11 PM
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Yeah, not sure Boston can count this as a positive…though, I suppose he’s marginally better than Lackey…maybe?
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- mgv38 - Apr 29, 2012 at 4:55 PM
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Well, he’s no Freddy Garcia.
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- mornelithe - Apr 29, 2012 at 5:17 PM
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Matsuzaka’s about as skilled as the guy they have tossing pitches during the HR Derby.
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- pcaisnipe - Apr 29, 2012 at 12:12 PM
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Dice-K Matsu-BUKAKKE
8=====D – - – (;
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- bigleagues - Apr 29, 2012 at 12:22 PM
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Yeah, well Chien Ming Wang went 4 Innings and pitched well in his rehab start last night as well . . .
What’s with the anti-Taiwanese bias at HBT?
lulz
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- henryd3rd - Apr 29, 2012 at 3:48 PM
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Daisuke Matsuzaka
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- henryd3rd - Apr 29, 2012 at 3:49 PM
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Daisuke Matsuzaka is not Taiwanese!
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- mornelithe - Apr 29, 2012 at 9:10 PM
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Apparently intelligence gets a thumbs down on these boards lol.
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- dirtyharry1971 - Apr 30, 2012 at 12:12 AM
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this is wonderful news, hopefully Jenks will be back soon as well
