Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched brilliantly into the seventh inning, and Jason Varitek's run-scoring double in the sixth proved to be the difference as Boston edged Oakland, 2-1, as the two teams resumed their season-opening series with the first of two games at McAfee Coliseum. Boston and Oakland lifted the lid on the 2008 campaign over in Japan with a two-game series last week. The Red Sox won the first game in extra innings, while the A's exacted a

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