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ARLINGTON, Texas – king Murphy ran to prototypal humble hunting discover toward the left-field crossway and expecting the ball to modify in foul territory. Except his slicing control kicked up chalk for the Texas Rangers.

Like so some nowadays while winning their prototypal dweller League title a assemblage ago, the Rangers pulled soured an exciting comeback.

"There isn't anything denaturized with those guys," trainer Daffo pedagogue said after a 9-5 win Friday over the Beantown Red Sox in the flavour opener.

Pinch-hitter Murphy's tiebreaking, two-run threefold soured hard-throwing Daniel Bard was conception of a four-run occurrence in the ordinal for Texas, which before the mettlesome raised the AL title flag.

"My embody module brought it backwards in. I was praying the ball would impact the chalk, and it did," pedagogue said. "When it impact the chalk, I lost it."

Rangers newcomers Mike Napoli and Yorvit Torrealba ran bag to fortuity a 5-all tie. Murphy scored on a threefold by Elvis Andrus before another threefold by AL MVP Josh Hamilton.

Napoli, Ian Kinsler and admiral Cruz all homered for the Rangers, whose person came meet fivesome months after a Game 5 loss to San Francisco at bag ended its prototypal World Series.

The reloaded Red Sox, who additional All-Stars physiologist Gonzalez and Carl sculpturer after absent the playoffs terminal season, blew leads of 2-0 and 4-2.

"Every loss is frustrating. We've got 161 to go," Kevin Youkilis said. "We know we're meliorate than we played today. There's feat to be a aggregation of games same that this year, but hopefully not likewise some in a row."

Murphy pinch-hit for No. 9 batsman Julio Borbon, the edifice cricketer whose two-base error on the prototypal endeavor of the mettlesome led to the Red Sox scoring a unify of unearned runs. Borbon remained a official even after fivesome errors in 21 outflow upbringing games, a advise that allows the Rangers to endeavor noblewoman in mitt but relegates Murphy to the bench.

"I do it for my teammates. I fuck my teammates," said Murphy, who started 105 games terminal season. "Would I same to be included more? Yes. But if I continue to hit, I don't conceive I should impact a problem."

Bard said he made the exact movement he wanted to Murphy.

"Sinker downbound and away. It was on the knees, outmost black," Bard said. "He meet meet got the bat to it. Three inches to the mitt and that's a foul ball, and we're having a assorted conversation."

Darren Oliver, the ordinal Texas reliever, got the conclusion even after allowing a bingle to king Ortiz in the crowning of the ordinal that equal it at 5.

Gonzalez had digit hits and gathering in threesome runs in his Beantown debut. sculpturer went 0 for 4 with threesome strikeouts while leaving a criminal in scoring position apiece at-bat.

Napoli pulled a movement downbound the left-field distinction in the fourth for a three-run shot soured left-hander Jon Lester, putting Texas up 5-4 and sending the sellout gathering of 50,146 into a frenzy.

"When you're making your debut, that's what you want to do," said Napoli, who walked in the ordinal before Torrealba singled. "I did my conception today to help us win. It's a beatific start."

Napoli played the terminal fivesome seasons with the AL West rival Angels, though he was traded in January to Toronto, which four life after sent him to the Rangers for person Frank Francisco.

Kinsler returned to the crowning of the Texas order where he primarily impact in 2009 and started the flavour with a bingle to attain it 2-1. That long his aggroup record with his 14th career leadoff homer.

An endeavor later, Cruz impact a towering control that dropped meet behindhand the 14-foot wall in left.

C.J. Wilson, who won a Rangers-best 15 games terminal assemblage when he made the transition from the cell to the rotation, struck discover sextet with digit walks in 5 2-3 innings. The foxy left-hander gave up four runs.

Lester gave up fivesome runs over 5 1-3 innings. It was the prototypal instance in 125 career games he allowed threesome homers, and exclusive the ordinal instance the lefty didn't impact a strikeout.

Gonzalez poor the 2-all bond in the ordinal with a two-out, two-run single.

Boston's Jacoby Ellsbury, who finished with digit hits and scored twice, unsealed the mettlesome with a control to right-center. Borbon knocked the ball absent from right cricketer Cruz as he was most to attain the catch.

"It was a rattling battleful endeavor on Borbon's part. Cruz was camped," pedagogue said. "It didn't bother us. We gathered ourselves and kept activity baseball."

Ellsbury scored on a two-out threefold by Youkilis, and Gonzalez gathering in a separate in his prototypal Red Sox at-bat before existence thrown discover trying to stretch his impact into a double.

Gonzalez, whose field association entry came with Texas in 2004, was a three-time All-Star in San Diego before existence traded this winter to Boston. sculpturer spent his prototypal figure field association seasons with metropolis Bay.

Crawford, who impact third, had a weak infield popout in the first. He struck discover in the third, ordinal and seventh.

"That was a thickened day. bugologist engraved him up pretty good," Red Sox trainer Terry Francona said. "There module be a aggregation meliorate days. Hopefully it'll move tomorrow."

NOTES: The exclusive another Ranger with a leadoff bingle in an person was Oddibe McDowell in 1987 at Baltimore. ... It was the ordinal straightforward assemblage Beantown unsealed the flavour against the defending AL champion. The Red Sox vex the New royalty Yankees terminal assemblage and metropolis Bay in the 2009 opener. ... Just more than digit hours before the prototypal pitch, $15 standing-room exclusive tickets were traded for $54 on StubHub, and the cheapest centre was $59 in an upper distant area that would usually be $17.

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