Nov 21, 2006 5:25 PM EST

Daisuke Matsuzaka dined with his would-be Boston bosses and took in a Lakers game during a trip to the United States, then headed back to Japan and left his agent to workout a deal with the Red Sox.

"We had some initial discussions yesterday," agent Scott Boras said Tuesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "We're continuing to talk. We've started the process."

Via ESPN.com