Daisuke Matsuzaka might have had his best season and won the ALCS opener against the Tampa Bay Rays, but it was Matt Garza who earned two playoff wins against the Boston Red Sox, including the pennant-clinching victory at home. 

Scott Kazmir's strong start at Fenway Park held up this time. 

Scott Kazmir recalled being in the Rays clubhouse at Fenway Park last year, watching the plastic go up to protect the lockers from champagne. 

The trip home was a lot shorter this time. 

TORONTO -- Edwin Jackson gets his first start for theDetroitTigers tonight and can't wait to get going. 

Imagine for a moment that today is April 3, 2008, not 2009. 

The Rays found out early that things may not go as well as they did last season. 

--DH Pat Burrell has permission to attend the Phillies' World Series ring ceremony prior to Wednesday's afternoon game in Philadelphia, and then return to Boston for the Rays' Wednesday night game. 

The Rays went into spring training figuring most of their team was set and there would only be a few decisions to be made, and that turned out to be the case. 

The Tampa Bay Rays got an early reminder that reaching the playoffs for a second straight time will be at least as hard as the first. 

In Scott Kazmir and Jon Lester, Tampa Bay and Boston possess two of the top young left-handed pitchers in baseball. 

This was a different Josh Beckett than the one the Tampa Bay Rays knocked around in last year's AL championship series. 

AL MVP Dustin Pedroia and the Boston Red Sox are off to a fast start. 

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