Buchholz holds his own vs. Rays

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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- You probably figured that Clay Buchholz, Boston's highly regarded pitching prospect, had a sleepless night leading up to his first start in Major League surroundings.

Turns out the guy couldn't keep his eyes open.

"I went to bed at 7:30 last night," said Buchholz. "I stayed asleep all the way through until 7:30 this morning. It was more that just sitting around the house sort of took a little bit of energy out of me, so I just went upstairs and tried to take an hour or two nap and it ended up being a 12-hour nap."

Then he got out on the mound and faced a lineup that included Carl Crawford and Delmon Young and pretty much put the Devil Rays to sleep -- at least for his first four innings.

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