After 3 months across the pond, Daisuke Matsuzaka is finally starting to develop into the pitcher the Red Sox thought they were getting when they signed him to the exorbitant contract that brought him to Beantown. And I, am finally starting to come around and believe that he is the pitcher that the Red Sox said he was.
On Tuesday night Dice-K pushed his win total to 10 on the year, and has quietly lowered his ERA into the mid 3.00’s. He dismantled the Tampa Bay Devil Rays allowing no runs over 8 innings while striking out 9. The loss was the 9th in a row for the young and troubled Devil Rays squad.
After being marked a disappointment early on, he has really turned it around since June 1. After seeing his ERA peak in early May at 5.45, Matsuzaka has been nothing short of a godsend for the injury-riddled Red Sox pitching staff. Matsuzaka has only allowed 6 runs in his past 6 starts, posting an ERA of 1.29 and being virtually un-hittable, allowing only an average of about 4 hits per game. That’s the pitcher Theo Epstein thought he was getting, and those numbers are worth all of the pre-season hype.
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