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Sox out to a Texas-size lead

The Red Sox have really come out smoking here.

It's 4-0 in the second. Kevin Youkilis has just hit a two-run bomb into the Monsters on a 1-0 pitch from Robinson Tejeda. Alex Cora had started the second with a triple that dd theold dance around the right-field railing. But then, what a horrible debut for Jacoby Ellsbury. What looked like a half-swing on a foul ball, wound up being a fair ball, about a foot-and-a-half out of the box. He was tagged out. Welcome to the bigs kid!

Ellsbury had made his first catch in the top of the second.

After Dustin Pedroia struck out while trying to aim for the fences, Youkilis saed the day.

The Sox had jumped out to a 2-0 first-inning lead off Tejeda, who was wild from the outset. He walked Pedroia and Youkilis in the first and both scored on a David Ortiz single and Mike Lowell's sacrifice fly.