Winless Red Sox lose 4th straight, 3-1 to Indians

Winless Red Sox lose 4th straight, 3-1 to Indians: Cleveland - four games in a season, a team must win it all has not won at all.

This is not something that the Red Sox planned.

Josh Tomlin Josh Beckett outpitched Boston, Cleveland came up with enough timely hits and the Indians kept the Red Sox this season winless 1:03 Tuesday night's win over a team many predicted would make the World Series this season.

"It's not fun," manager Terry Francona said. "But I do not think anyone feel sorry for us. We have to play the actual game and everything will be fine. "

Tomlin (1-0) can run and three hits in seven innings, Boston's star of The Taming of the list have not yet found his groove. Franco tried to manipulate his batting order, moving Carl Crawford number 2 hole, but had little effect on the team, and the average dropped to .186 in Boston.

"We need a spark right now," said Crawford, signed as a free agent in December. "It's a little surprising, is difficult. We have high hopes for this season."

Tony Sipp worked a perfect eighth before closer Chris Perez Indians made things interesting in the ninth. He gave them one by one with Dustin Pedroia and two time before he walked Kevin Youkilis David Ortiz on a cruise his first save.

Beckett (0-1) was unable to stop the fall of the Red Sox 0-4, their worst start to a 0-6 opening in 1996.

However, the right not panic.

"There's too much history here," he said. "Everyone here knows how to win. We understand that. We know what we should do. "

Orlando Cabrera, Jack Hannahan and Carlos Santana went to work in Cleveland.

Indians manager Manny Acta said before the game he does not expect Tomlin, who went to the April 1912-June, after starting from the minors in July last year, is to intimidate a downloaded list of Boston. Tomlin showed nerves of steel in the fight against one of the best baseball 1-through-9 formulations.

"Josh Tomlin was fantastic," Acta said. "He let them off balance and has complete control over their repertoire four steps. He deserves all the credit."

A crowd of 9025, many of them fans of Boston, was the smallest to see a Red Sox game since 2000.

Picked by many to win the American League pennant in 2011, after the addition of All-Stars Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez this winter, they were swept in three games to open the season at Texas, where clubs Rangers and was 11 Boston homers 11.26.

It 's still too early, but if Boston does things started as soon as it is not very long. Journey to deal with the Cleveland Indians, young people understand that, but until now was always the same.

When the temperature of 42 degrees at game time and down and a stiff wind blowing in Lake Erie, he seemed to be hosted by Brown patriots. Some of the Red Sox had a long, parks and gloves oversized bag large items on the counter.

"I put one of them in my closet right now," Crawford said before stashing his coat in his closet.

This can be especially cold, but the temperature at home grows.

Loved the difficulties "Sawx".

Boston fans have Beckett, once ace, who struggled last season and training camp to stop the slide.

The right-hander making his first start at Cleveland, Game May 2007 ALCS, when he saved the season in Boston, taking the Indians to five hits and striking out 11 in eight innings. The Red Sox have bridged gaps 03.01 and won the series in September, then add the crown of the World Series.

The Indians managed only one shot of Beckett's first three innings and took two of three runs in the fourth.

Travis Hafner signs of the possibility of including new resins jumped a double wall in right field, one out and scored on Orlando Cabrera's single. Beckett walked Austin Kearns struck out and Matt Laporta is a number 9 hitter nasty changeup land Hannahan scored a run in the middle.

Cleveland was 3-1 in the fifth, when Asdrubal Cabrera doubled, pink groundout and scored on a sacrifice fly by Carlos Santana.

Beckett has three runs and five hits in five innings, not a bad start, but not good enough to go from Boston to its first victory.

"We corrected some at-bats," Beckett said, "and I have the ball a little."

Right turn around during the first two rounds unscathed, but Ortiz walked with two outs, the second after racing ahead 1-2 in the neck. JD Drew followed with a double and Jarrod Saltalamacchia off 0-for-10 start with an RBI.

Shin-Soo Choo, who led the AL with 14 field work, he kept 1-0, throw it out at the plate.

NOTES: As if a trip to Texas was not bad enough, Red Sox were rude flight to Cleveland. "We got bounced around a bit," said Francona, who resigned his seat as the plane prepared to land to check out Pedroia, the nervous flyer. "I almost got sick. It was bad." ... Indians Grady Sizemore played seven innings in the "Triple-Columbus, the final steps in his return from knee surgery. He plans to play seven more on Thursday as the Double-Akron Indians to build their stamina.