Dice-K? More like Dice-BB or Dice-HBP or Dice-HR or…
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008…Dice-can’t-find-the-plate. I got up early to catch the first few innings of the Red Sox “at” the A’s in Japan. Due to back spasms, Josh Beckett, the scheduled opening day starter, had to take the series off, so Daisuke Matsuzaka got the nod — kinda neat that he’d get to pitch in his hometown, right? Well, the first two innings were just plain brutal. None of his off-speed pitches were hitting the plate. Jason Varitek got to put on a display of his gymnastic ability. The only good thing to say about it was that only two runs scored.