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(Sports Network) - The Detroit Tigers continue a search for their elusive first victory of the season tonight at Boston's Fenway Park, where the defending world champion Red Sox will attempt to pin an eighth consecutive loss on baseball's lone winless team.

Detroit's shocking early struggles continued in Tuesdays opener of this three-game series, as Bostons Daisuke Matsuzaka teamed with two relievers on a five-hit shutout to lead the Red Sox to a 5-0 win.

Matsuzaka (2-0) was brilliant for the second straight start, yielding just four hits and four walks while racking up seven strikeouts over 6 2/3 innings of work. The Japanese sensation was coming off an outstanding effort in Oakland on April 1 in which he held the Athletics to a run and two hits in 6 2/3 frames.

Kevin Youkilis paced Boston offensively by going 3-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored on the day in which the Sox received their 2007 world championship rings. J.D. Drew and Coco Crisp also knocked in runs for Boston, which halted a three-game losing streak and won its home opener for the fourth year in a row.

Kenny Rogers (0-2) lasted just 4 2/3 innings for Detroit and allowed three runs -- two earned -- on eight hits to suffer the loss.

The Tigers have now been outscored by a 44-15 margin during their seven-game skid, the club's longest since it dropped eight straight contests from September 16-23, 2005. Detroit's 0-7 beginning is its worst start to a season since 2003, the year the team lost its first nine games and finished with an American League record 119 defeats.

Detroit's badly struggling offense figures to face another challenge this evening in Bostons Jon Lester, who put together a dominating effort in his last start a week ago. The young left-hander twirled 6 2/3 scoreless innings and surrendered just three hits to defeat Oakland to even his season record at 1-1.

Lester, now 12-3 in 28 lifetime starts, will be facing Detroit for the first time in his career tonight.

The Tigers' hopes of ending their lengthy winless drought will fall on Jeremy Bonderman. The talented yet erratic right-hander also aims to improve upon a lackluster season debut in which he was touched for four runs on eight hits over 6 1/3 innings in a loss to Kansas last Thursday.

Bonderman will also be searching for his first career win at Fenway Park, where the 25-year-old has compiled an 0-3 record with a 5.73 earned run average in four previous starts. He is 3-4 with a 4.58 ERA in nine overall outings against Boston.

Detroit has now lost four of its last five games at Fenway and is 4-7 against the Red Sox in Boston since 2005.