Red Sox Pound Yankees in opening day blowout

Red Sox 8, YANKEES 2

After a spring training full of nothing but pure misery and worry about the health and age of the 2013 New York Yankees, the Bronx Bombers did little to end the hand wringing by Yankees fans, as the Boston Red Sox came into town and beat up the Bombers 8-2.

The Yankees offense was putrid; 2-for-9 with runners in scoring position, and only one RBI hit with two out. Whenever the Yankees asked someone to get a big hit, no one came up to make it happen. The biggest culprit was Robinson Cano, who has a lot of pressure on his shoulders coming into this season, considering that Derek Jeter, Mark Teixiera, Curtis Granderson, and Alex Rodriguez are out of the line-up.

Cano went 0-for-2 with RISP, flying out to left for the final out in the third with a runner on second,, and, again in the seventh, he struck out with two runners on base and the Yankees down three runs.

It didn't help matters that the Red Sox tattooed CC Sabathia for four runs in the second thanks to a two-run RBI single by Shane Victorino and an RBI single by Dustin Pedroia.

The Yankees never recovered as they went quietly into the afternoon against Jon Lester and the Red Sox pitching staff. Lester was good, not great. He pitched five innings for Boston, struck out seven, but threw 96 pitches in the start.

Sabathia lasted only five innings surrendering the four runs on eight hits. 

The only offense for the Bronx Bombers came on a two-run single by catcher Francisco Cervelli, but unlike Yankees' teams of the past, there was never a feeling that the Bombers would come back. 

The Red Sox continued to pound the baseball deep in the game, putting away the Yankees in the ninth when Jacoby Ellsbury brought in two runs on an infield single, and Victorino drove in rookie Jackie Bradley Jr. with the final run of the day.