Laley23;1152130 wrote:He also had a 4.40 ERA in year 1. I dont remember him ever shutting down an offense like the Yankees the way Yu did. He certainly didnt have the start Yu has had, so I stand by my statement.
I do concede I forgot that Dice-K had that good second year, cause he has sucked weiner all of his other years. Injury or not.
Dice-K had a much better start to his mlb career than Darvish. Yu was lucky not to have a couple losses in his first 3 games.
Matsuzaka made his first major league regular season start for the Red Sox on April 5, 2007 in an afternoon game against the
Kansas City Royals at
Kauffman Stadium. He walked one, recorded 10 strikeouts, and at one point retired 10 consecutive batters. He allowed only a solo home run on 6 hits while throwing 108 pitches (74 for strikes) over 7 innings and recorded the
win as the Red Sox triumphed by a score of 4–1. He was, however, beaten 3–0 by
Félix Hernández (who pitched a one hitter),
Ichiro Suzuki,
Kenji Johjima, and their
Seattle Mariners in his Fenway Park debut on April 11, 2007 and defeated again, 2–1, by the
Toronto Blue Jays in his third major league start despite striking out 10 Toronto hitters in only 6 innings. Matsuzaka still became the only pitcher to strike out 10 or more batters in 2 of his first 3 big-league starts since
Fernando Valenzuela did so in 1981.
In the official press conference after the Toronto start, Matsuzaka stated through his interpreter that gripping the American
baseball—which is slightly larger than the Japanese pro ball, with higher seams—had presented some challenges, but that he had begun making adjustments and felt they were successful.
Matsuzaka pitched his first
complete game in the major leagues on May 14, 2007, a 7–1 victory over the
Detroit Tigers; he had pitched well over 60 complete games in Japan.
I prolly just jinxed them for the remaining two games.
