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Friday, May 19 7:05pm ET
Everett, Stanley go deep for Red Sox | |||||
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BOSTON (AP) -- Jeff Fassero didn't win his fifth game last year until September. This season, he's already there. "It's nice to have five wins already. It took me all year last year," he said Friday night after pitching seven shutout innings to beat Detroit 3-0 and match his 1999 win total. Carl Everett and Mike Stanley homered as the Red Sox posted their second consecutive shutout and their 10th win in 12 games. With their sixth shutout of the season, the Red Sox lowered their team ERA to 3.28. "The pitching staff has been unbelievable," Stanley said. "From the starting staff all the way down to Derek Lowe, not excluding anyone." Fassero (5-1) combined with two relievers on a five-hitter, allowing four hits and two walks while striking out eight. Rich Garces pitched a perfect eighth and Lowe pitched the ninth for his ninth save. Everett hit a long fly ball in the fourth inning that got held up in a 17 mph wind, and right fielder Juan Gonzalez calmly stood at the bullpen wall and waited for it to come down. "He had the distance, but he hit it up there where the (wind) had a chance to keep it in," Boston manager Jimy Williams said. "Most parks, when you hit it 380 (feet), it's going to be a home run. But our park is what it is." But in the sixth, neither the wind nor the 6-foot-3 Gonzalez could keep Everett's two-run shot in the park as it sailed into the right-field bleachers. "The wind couldn't hold that one up," Everett said. "Plus, it's Gonzalez out there _ long arms. If it's (5-foot-8 Luis) Polonia out there ... just kidding." Brian Moehler (1-2) took the loss despite allowing just one earned run on seven hits in six-plus innings. He struck out three and walked one in his first appearance since going on the disabled list for an appendectomy on April 22. "He made two mistakes and both of them cost him," Tigers manager Phil Garner said. "We let Fassero have the night off. We swung at balls, not strikes, all night long." Donnie Sadler led off the sixth with a ground ball that third baseman Dean Palmer threw into the Boston dugout for a two-base error. Two outs later, Everett hit his 13th homer of the year over Gonzalez and into the stands. Stanley led off the seventh with his seventh homer to make it 3-0. The game was not without its highlights for the Tigers. Left fielder Shane Halter threw out Brian Daubach trying to go from first to third on a single, and second baseman Jose Macias caught Sadler going from second to third on a ground ball in the sixth. Game notesFassero has walked three batters in his last four starts after walking 12 in his first three. ... The Tigers will make up a May 9 postponed game against Kansas City as part of a split, day-night doubleheader on July 22, the team announced Friday. The game is scheduled for 1:05 p.m. The originally scheduled game against the Royals that day has been moved from a 5:05 p.m. start to a 7:05 p.m. start. The team also announced that Thursday night's postponed game against Cleveland will be rescheduled for 1:05 p.m. on June 24, as part of a split day-night doubleheader in Cleveland. ... When the Tigers activated Moehler from the 15-day disabled list, they put Mark Johnson on the DL with a strained lower back. ... Detroit also optioned Masao Kida to Triple-A Toledo and called up Brandon Villafuerte. ... Boston 3B John Valentin was in the lineup for the first time since he was put on the 15-day disabled list effective April 6 with left knee tendinitis. INF Andy Sheets was optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Detroit Clubhouse Boston Clubhouse RECAPS Boston 3 Detroit 0
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