Another rivalry game, another Red Sox win. Let’s travel around the Boston and New York papers to see what is being said about everything.

Daisuke Matsuzaka:

“If I got into all of the things that happened in the fourth, it would be a very long story and it would sound like a lot of excuses,” Matsuzaka said through translator Masa Hoshino. “So to keep a long story short, I will say there are a few things technically I need to work out.”

“I wouldn’t say that there’s any personal satisfaction in beating the Yankees,” Matsuzaka said. “But as a team, I’m very, very happy that we won.”

“Even though I’ve studied opposing lineups on DVD and having held pitchers meetings, it’s still different from actually facing them in reality,” Matsuzaka said. “I think that overall I’ve been a little bit too cautious, but I do think that it’s sort of a natural phase that I do need to get over.”

“I don’t think there were too many things I actually did improve upon from my pervious starts, but there are some things that I have been working on,” Matsuzaka said. “The sort of pitching you saw today might be what you see for a few more starts as I get used to the opposing lineups. But that being said, it’s the type of pitching I would like to avoid.”

Kevin Youkilis:

“Tomorrow’s another day,” Youkilis said. “They have a great team here, and it’s no exception this year. We have to keep playing them like this is the last time we play them.

“They can turn it around any time. This is New York. They can turn this around the next day.”

Jason Varitek:

“We’ve got to worry about ourselves and playing good baseball,” said Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek. “[Julio] Lugo had a great night. We were able to stay in there and get our bullpen in the right situation. [Kevin] Youkilis had the big homer. We have to worry about ourselves, not necessarily what they’re doing. We have to worry about ourselves playing good baseball.”

“I’m not sure, because I haven’t been through a full season with him,” said the captain. “I’ve seen him execute better at different times in the spring, even in the season. I saw him execute extremely well tonight, too, at different times. It’s just getting all those things rolling together in one start and he could have a magical start the time he does it.”

Derek Jeter:

“If you’re pushing the panic button now,” Jeter said, “you’re in for a long season.”

“This is the time when you find out how good the team is. We need to bounce back,” Jeter said. “We’ll see how good we are.”

Andy Pettitte:

“It’s embarrassing is what it is,” Pettitte said. “We’ve lost seven in a row; that’s frustrating and disappointing. I had a lead out there and I gave it back to them. It made me sick to my stomach. I probably won’t sleep good tonight.”

“We’re in a horrible skid right now,” Pettitte said. “It’s a joke that I couldn’t go out there and get them six or seven innings when the team needs me to do that.”

“As a starting staff, we’re not doing the job,” Pettitte said. “The reason that we’re struggling is that we’re not pitching.”

“I think everyone’s down and extremely upset,” Pettitte said. “How can you not be? We haven’t won a game in a week.”

Joe Torre:

“We’re much better than this; we have the ability and the capability; we just have to play better,” Torre said. “You hope this was a bottoming out, because this was the worst game we played all week.”

“It was pretty ugly,” Torre said. “We’re going to have to get this thing turned around.”

“We’re proud of our bullpen,” Torre said, “but the most important thing is not having to overuse it. We’ve overused it. I don’t anticipate it’s going to continue to be that way. We feel the starters are going to start taking the ball and running with it.”

“We just can’t sustain anything,” Torre said. “I think offensively we’re used to scoring runs. We just haven’t been able to make them stand up.”

[NY Daily News, Yankees.com, Boston Herald, Red Sox.com, Boston Globe]