Felix Doubront (pictured at right) was the real story tonight—but all we have to say is, Ciriaco Fever: Catch It! For the second game in a row, Pedro Ciriaco has made the Red Sox winners—last time with a walk-off home run, tonight with a single bungled by into (effectively) a home run by the Yankees. Ciriaco's was the only tally, as solid Red Sox pitching brought in a 1-0 victory over the Evil Ones in Grapefruit League action.
Felix Dourbront went four solid innings, followed by Bowden for one, Padilla for three no-hit innings, and Junichi Tazawa closing it out in the ninth. Sure, it doesn't count, but the fact that Boston strung together nine shutout innings—four from a prospective fifth starter in Doubront—is huge. And of course, in the larger cosmic sense, it damn well does count.