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April 21, 2007
The Matsuzaka Media Mafia will be in its glory tomorrow night when Dice-K pitches against the New York Yankees for the first time. It’ll be a primetime showdown against the Yanks’ Chase Wright and everyone is interested how the Japanese import will handle the greatest rivalry in all of sports.
“He’s certainly not lived through it,” said Red Sox manager Terry Francona. “I know my first year I think I said all the right things, but I had no idea. I don’t think anybody does until you go through it. Saying that, he has pitched a lot of professional games and he’s been a big deal, the center of attention and a real good pitcher. This certainly won’t overwhelm him. From what I’ve seen of him, he enjoys immensely things like this. He’ll be just fine.”
Matsuzaka has pitched extremely well in his three starts, but you would never know that by his 1-2 record. In his last two starts the right-hander has allowed just five runs in 13 innings of work. He just hasn’t received much offensive support.
Tomorrow will be the first time he will face the type of potent lineup like the Yankees have, so it’ll be interesting to see the outcome.
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