BOSTON 鈥?How about we just stop right here http://www.whitesoxfanproshop.com/authentic-michael-jordan-jersey , as even a freaking pinch hitter for the Boston Red Sox unleashed a screaming line drive that jackhammered its way through the cold, wet night air and over the Green Monster.If it wasn't before, it should be monster-ishly clear now in the aftermath of Eduardo Nunez's three-run blast in the seventh inning to crack wide-open Boston's 8-4 Game 1 World Series win over the Los Angeles Dodgers here Tuesday night that these Red Sox are setting up as a team for the ages.This lineup is relentless in all the right ways. It boasts power, contains contact hitters and it can, as they love to say in Beantown, #DoDamage throughout, from Nos. 1 through 9, from leadoff hitter Mookie Betts to the very end of manager Alex Cora's bench.This team, the one that started 17-2, won a franchise-record 108 games, blitzed the New York Yankees in an American League Division Series and crushed the Houston Astros in the AL Championship Series...how exactly are the Dodgers supposed to handle it?Other than not scoring four or five runs in a two-run first inning in which three of the first four Red Sox to face Kershaw cracked singles off him, "it was about as perfect as you can draw it up," Red Sox reliever Matt Barnes said. "[Nunez's] ability to come off the bench and hit a three-run homer is incredible. It was huge."David J. Phillip/Associated PressThe last two times out now, the Red Sox have pelted Astros ace Justin Verlander and bloodied Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw. This is what they do."We have a great group of guys, and we don't fear anybody," Betts said. "They put their pants on the same way we do."Welcome to Fenway Park, Mr. Kershaw. Check your pockets before they're picked.It was his first-ever appearance in this storied museum. His first-ever matchup with the Red Sox. And one he will not soon forget. The Sox pantsed him immediately, scoring those two runs in the first, another in the third, and then, after manager Dave Roberts hooked Kershaw following a walk and a single to start the fifth, Ryan Madson allowed both of those inherited runners to score."I don't think he had the fastball command that he typically has," Roberts said. "He was missing up in the zone. I don't think his slider had the depth that we're used to seeing."And those guys, to their credit, they put some good at-bats on him. And we didn't play the defense we typically do."Absolutely true. And that made the Dodgers' climb in this World Series opener even steeper.What helped set up Boston's first inning was first baseman David Freese's failure to catch Betts' pop foul on the muddy warning track behind first base. Right fielder Yasiel Puig rifled a throw home instead of hitting the cutoff man, which allowed Andrew Benintendi to take second鈥攁nd score two batters later. On the mound, Kershaw looked perplexed. Then Carlton Fisk Jersey , in the fifth, Madson's wild pitch bounced past catcher Austin Barnes to help set up two more runs.David J. Phillip/Associated PressBy that fifth inning, seven of the nine Red Sox hitters had reached base. Even light-hitting catcher Sandy Leon finished with two knocks. No wonder there was a gorgeous rainbow over Fenway Park between late-afternoon rain showers.And when the merry-go-round is spinning like that, if you're playing defense, you simply cannot give up extra outs.Against this particular Boston club, it's a death sentence."It was huge," Betts said of scoring twice in the first inning. "From the beginning, we played aggressively and let them know that we're not going to ease into it."Right off the bat, go 100 miles an hour."Did they ever. When the season started, when the playoffs started and now in the World Series. Ace starter Chris Sale didn't last any longer than Kershaw鈥攈e, too, failed to get an out in the fifth inning. But the Boston lineup (mostly) and the Dodgers' sloppiness (minimally) gave Sale more slack than Kershaw.It's been this way all season. One enormous difference between these two clubs: The Red Sox can beat you in so many ways because they can hit for power and average. The Sox ranked 26th in the majors in strikeouts this season; only Pittsburgh, Seattle, Houston and Cleveland fanned fewer times. The Dodgers, whose offense has been all or nothing much of the time, ranked eighth in the majors in whiffs.The Dodgers hit the second-most home runs in the majors鈥攁 franchise-record 235, which led the National League鈥攚hile Boston ranked ninth. But the Dodgers also ranked 29th in batting average with runners in scoring position and two outs鈥攖heir .199 tied the lowly Baltimore Orioles.Part of that relates to the inordinately high number of strikeouts contained in the Los Angeles lineup鈥攁nd the Dodgers whiffed 12 times in Game 1 (the Red Sox checked in with 12, too). But while the Dodgers have scored 24 runs this postseason via the homer and 23 runs when they don't put the ball out of the park, Boston keeps coming at you in various ways: The Red Sox this postseason have scored 21 runs via the homer and 43 without the benefit of a homer. The difference is striking."Overall, we're pretty relentless," president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said during a conversation before Game 5 of the ALCS in Houston the other day. "We battle. And we can win in different ways."It's nice we hit more home runs this year than we did in the past. But we're athletic, we use the whole field, we score from first on a double鈥攖he majority of guys, not all of them鈥攚e score from second, we take extra bases. There's a lot of different stuff that we do."We're also a good defensive club. First base, second base, catching鈥攚e're really good. So http://www.whitesoxfanproshop.com/authentic-jose-abreu-jersey , we win games in different ways."Dodger president Stan Kasten joked about payrolls after his team eliminated Milwaukee."I'm a little concerned about having to play these high payroll teams," Kasten quipped, referring to Boston ranking second in the majors this year with a $206 million payroll while the Dodgers were 11th at $157 million. "It seems unfair to make us do that. But we're going to give it our best anyway."What was unfair in Game 1 was the stacked Boston lineup that destroyed the Dodgers from various angles. Nunez's homer came against lefty Alex Wood, once a starter but now a reliever in the playoffs. Pedro Baez was doing just fine in relief, and Roberts left himself open to questioning with that move. It was the third homer Wood has allowed this postseason.By the end of the mauling, the Fenway Park crowd was roaring that age-old favorite chant in Boston. As "Beat L.A.! Beat L.A.!" carried deep into the night, the notion of beating these Red Sox seemed as difficult as stopping those echoes. Scott Miller covers Major League Baseball as a national columnist for Bleacher Report. Follow Scott on Twitter and talk baseball. DETROIT (AP) — Matthew Boyd pitched well on Jack Morris Day, but he was still worried about disappointing one of his idols.“I think he might be mad at me for only pitching six innings,” Boyd joked after the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 4-2 Sunday to win the weekend series.The game started 20 minutes late because of the ceremony to retire Morris’ No. 47 jersey. Morris and longtime teammate Alan Trammell were inducted into the Hall of Fame earlier this month.“I think it was great for all of our players to be able to watch that ceremony, and we’ll have them out there again in a couple weeks for Tram,” Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. “There was a lot of franchise history on that field.”Boyd (7-10) won for the third time in four starts, giving up one run on two hits and a walk in six innings. He struck out three.Boyd has talked to Morris several times for pitching advice, even though as a finesse lefty, he’s not much like the famed righty.“The theme of every conversation we’ve had is competing,” Boyd said. “Compete on every pitch, don’t get pushed around or intimidated and give your team a chance to win.“It was special to be able to go out there and pitch like that on his day,” he said.Shane Greene pitched the ninth for his 25th save.Kohl Stewart (0-1) took the loss in his major league debut, allowing three runs on eight hits and a walk in 4 1/3 innings. He started his career with four scoreless innings, but after he got the first out in the fifth, the next five batters reached base.“I was really nervous leading up to the game, but after the first pitch, I thought I settled in,” he said. “I just needed to make a couple more pitches in the fifth inning and keep us in the game.”Twins manager Paul Molitor said Stewart should get at least one more start.“For his first time, I thought he composed himself pretty well,” Molitor said. “He had a little misfortune, but I think he’s very likely to get another chance.”The Twins took a 1-0 lead in the second when Mitch Garver tripled over JaCoby Jones‘ head in center field and scored on Johnny Field’s sacrifice fly.Grayson Greiner, Victor Reyes and Jeimer Candelario hit three straight singles with one out in the fifth to tie the score.Jose Iglesias beat out an infield single on the 10th pitch of his at-bat Melky Cabrera Jersey , loading the bases, and Niko Goodrum walked to give the Tigers the lead and end Stewart’s debut.“Iglesias is not a guy who strikes out, so even when you are ahead, he can foul pitches off,” Molitor said. “It was a good battle, and Kohl kept pounding the sinker in there and got a ground ball, but not in a place where we could do anything.”Victor Martinez greeted Taylor Rogers with a sacrifice fly, making it 3-1.Max Kepler led off the eighth with a homer off Joe Jimenez, pulling the Twins within a run, but Ronny Rodriguez made it 4-2 with an RBI double in the bottom of the inning.“That was a huge hit for Ronny,” Gardenhire said. “He hasn’t played in a couple days, and he only came into this game after an injury, but he got us that big insurance run.”TRAINER’S ROOMTwins: LHP Adalberto Mejia (wrist) will have an MRI on Monday in Minnesota to try to determine a recovery plan.Tigers: Jones left the game after the third inning with a right hamstring strain. He injured himself chasing down Garver’s triple in the second inning and was undergoing tests after the game.MORRIS HONOREDMorris became the sixth Tigers player to have his number retired, with Trammell’s No. 3 scheduled for Aug. 26. Detroit has also retired manager Sparky Anderson’s No. 11 and a blank jersey for Ty Cobb.Morris, who won World Series championships for the Tigers (1984) and Twins (1991), finished his speech by thanking both teams.“It is a great honor to have this day in the city where I spent most of my career, and in front of two teams I love. Thank you and go Tigers and Twins,” he said.The Minnesota native will be honored by the Twins on Saturday, also before a game with the Tigers.UP NEXTTwins: Off on Monday before starting a two-game series at home against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Jake Odorizzi (4-7, 4.50) will start Tuesday against Pittsburgh’s Jameson Tallion (9-8, 3.83).Tigers: Start a three-game home series against the Chicago White Sox. Artie Lewicki (0-2, 4.76) will pitch for Detroit against Reynaldo Lopez (4-9, 4.30).