Glaus hits slam, Cards rock Dice-K in 9-3 victory

Boston Red Sox' Mike Lowell tosses his bat after striking out against the St. Louis Cardinals in the seventh inning of their MLB baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Friday, June 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

BOSTON—Troy Glaus hit a grand slam and the St. Louis Cardinals rocked Daisuke Matsuzaka in his return from the disabled list, beating the Boston Red Sox 9-3 Saturday.

On the DL since May 30 because of a mild strain in his rotator cuff, Matsuzaka (8-1) was tagged for seven runs in one-plus inning. It was shortest outing of his brief major league career.

Mitchell Boggs (2-0) pitched effectively into the sixth inning in his third big league start. Aaron Miles and Rick Ankiel also homered for St. Louis.

The Cardinals had scored just four runs in their previous three games before defeating Boston 5-4 Friday night.

J.D. Drew homered for the Red Sox, who lost for just the fourth time in 24 home games.

The Red Sox are assured of dropping a series at Fenway Park for the first time since late April. They had won their previous seven series at home, their longest stretch since taking nine straight from July 18-Sept 8, 2005.

Matsuzaka walked Skip Schumaker on five pitches to start the game and Miles followed with a shot into the front row of the right-field seats for his first homer of the season. Jason LaRue added a two-run single later in the first inning.

The Cardinals loaded the bases with no outs in the second and Matsuzaka was relieved by Chris Smith, who made his major league debut.

After getting a big hand for striking out Ankiel swinging, Smith gave up Glaus' slam into the first row of the Green Monster seats to make it 8-0.

Matsuzaka left his last start May 27 in Seattle with the injury. He allowed more than three runs for just the second time in 12 starts this season, his second in the majors.

Given a big lead from the start, Boggs (2-0) gave up three runs and five hits in 5 1-3 innings.

Kyle McClellan, Russ Springer and Jason Isringhausen combined for 3 2-3 innings of one-hit relief.

Ankiel hit his 12th home run in the seventh.

Notes:@ Glaus hit his fourth career slam, and first since July 29, 2006, when he did it for Toronto at Oakland. ... Matsuzaka's previous shortest outing was 2 2-3 innings last Sept. 8 at Baltimore. ... Boston placed RHP Mike Timlin on the 15-day DL before the game and activated Matsuzaka. Timlin was sidelined with tendinitis in his left knee. ... It was the shortest outing by a Boston starter since Derek Lowe lasted one inning on Sept. 18, 2004, at Yankee Stadium. ... Boston's Dustin Pedroia tripped and fell face first trying to run out his fifth-inning grounder. ... Smith worked four innings, the longest relief outing for a Red Sox debut since Dana Kiecker went four innings April 12, 1990, at Detroit. ... The Los Angeles Angels were the last visiting team to win a series in Fenway, winning two of three April 22-24. ... Matsuzaka tied former New York Yankees right-hander Hideki Irabu as the only Japanese pitchers to start a season 8-0. Irabu did it in 1999.