SARASOTA, Fla. – Carl Crawford got right into the swing for the Boston Red Sox.

Crawford had his first two hits in a Boston uniform as a Red Sox split squad and the Baltimore Orioles played 10 innings Saturday before calling it a 4-4 tie.

The Red Sox newcomer was hitless in his first nine at-bats this spring. He had singles in the first and fifth innings and left the game after walking in the seventh.

The All-Star outfielder caught four balls in his last three innings, including a nice, running grab on Luke Scott’s fly with two runners on in the third.

“Physically, I don’t feel I can get any stronger,” Crawford said. “It’s just a matter of me working on my baseball skills.”

Jacoby Ellsbury and Crawford were the only recognizable Boston names to make the trip. Most of the regulars stayed behind in Fort Myers for their split-squad game against Florida.

Unfortunately for the Red Sox, recognizable faces don’t always mean good results. Daisuke Matsuzaka was tagged by the Marlins for three innings as Florida beat Boston’s split squad 11-2.

Matsuzaka gave up seven runs, five of them earned, on six hits and two walks. An error by second baseman Dustin Pedroia helped prolong a three-run first inning.

“We struggled to get out of the first inning,” Red Sox Manager Terry Francona said. “Don’t get an out, and those are the things you hope happen in spring training and not during the season.”

Matsuzaka has a 10.80 ERA after two spring outings, but said he wasn’t concerned about his line. In his first outing, he worked on his fastball; this time, it was another set of pitches.

“I had different homework from last time to today,” he said through a team interpreter. “I went to what I wanted to do and there was good and bad. Doing homework, the stuff I wanted to improve on, was pretty much done the last two outings. From the next time, I’m going to approach it as the regular season.”

Former Red Sox minor leaguer Anibal Sanchez pitched three scoreless innings, giving up one hit and striking out three. Boston traded him and shortstop Hanley Ramirez to the Marlins before the 2006 season for Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell.

Sanchez walked leadoff man Marco Scutaro and gave up a single to Pedroia before retiring the next nine batters.

Sanchez said the lengthy top of the first caused him to allow the first two batters to reach base.

“Matsuzaka had a bad (first) inning,” he said. “I rested for a while. I wasn’t the same from when I threw the bullpen.”

Sanchez threw 43 pitches, 26 strikes.

“I like that,” he said. “Right now I am looking for 15 pitches or less an inning. I don’t (want) to throw too many balls and I want to go deep on the counts. Right now I want to throw every batter a first-pitch strike.”