Kevin Youkilis, batting cleanup, lined out to right to end the first inning.
Firefighters and soldiers swept through the region Tuesday carrying out cleanup tasks with bulldozers.
The cleanup, it turns out, will take no more than nine months and cost no more than $750 million.
Curtis Granderson walked to load the bases, but Mark Teixeira, who went 0 for 5 replacing Rodriguez in the cleanup spot, popped out in foul territory.
With the sun setting and stadium cleanup crews fanning out, Williams was surrounded by well-wishers in an all-but-empty Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The hub Web site is intended to assist people who volunteer for the organization's annual initiative, the Great American Cleanup, in reaching out to each other as well as to friends and family.
In a recent advertisement placed in national newspapers, the company noted that it had already spent $14 billion on the spill response and cleanup and paid out 300,000 claims totaling more than $11 billion.
Hillenbrand, who leads the Red Sox with 11 homers, went deep on an 0-1 pitch from Brian Lawrence (7-4), two pitches after Brian Daubach, the cleanup batter, struck out for the fourth time.
The department said it was stringently overseeing a voluntary cleanup being carried out by Verizon, Sylvania's corporate successor, and would see to it that all necessary remediation is done.
Since the cleanup fund ran out, the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, said in a report, Superfund has relied on an annual appropriation of $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion in tax dollars and the increasing amount of money the E.P.A. recovered from companies it had linked to polluted sites.
After extraction, the cleanup was carried out involving carbon black.
