The Red Sox played another set of split-squad games on Friday. This time both of the games were at City of Palms in the Fort. The Red Sox split the two games, losing to the Toronto Blue Jays in the opener, 9-6, and they defeated the Boston College Eagles in the nightcap, 9-1.
The opening game marked the spring debuts of Manny Ramirez, J.D. Drew and Coco Crisp. Ramirez was 0 for 1 with a walk, Drew was 1 for 3 with two strikeouts, and Crisp was 0 for 2 with a walk. Kyle Snyder pitched well in his 2 innings of work. He gave up 1 hit, walked 2 and struck out 4. Hideki Okajima made his debut as well, pitching a scoreless inning. Brendan Donnelly had another great outing, striking out 2 in his 1 inning of work. Ruenlvys Hernandez didn’t have a good outing today as he gave up 6 runs on 6 hits in an inning.
The nightcap marked the Red Sox debut of Daisuke Matsuzaka. If you’d like to read more about that, click here as I have already wrote about this. David Murphy went 2-for-2, scored three runs and drove in two. Jacoby Ellsbury belted a triple and drove in two runs. Rule 5 draftee Nick Debarr gave up 2 hits and struckout 4 in his 2 innings of work.
Other notes and news out of Red Sox camp.
Craig Hansen was medically cleared to resume pitching again on Friday. He threw a side session down in the bullpen.
Mike Timlin is still experiencing some pain and still hasn’t been cleared to throw off a mound again.
Kyle Synder is out of options and will have to make the team in order to stay a member of the Red Sox. Synder is locked in a battle with Hansen and Manny Delcarmen, among others for the final spot in the bullpen. With Francona saying yesterday he wasn’t going to carry a long man to start the season, it may be difficult for Synder to make the club.
Look for Tim Wakefield and Jonathan Papelbon to make their spring debuts on Saturday as the Red Sox take on the Phillies at City of Palms at 1 PM.
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