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Game 144: History, Please Don't Repeat

By Ben Buchanan

About 5 months ago, the Red Sox 2-7, and welcoming a Rays team that was doing slightly worse than them into Fenway Park.

A few days later and they were 2-9

The Red Sox, at the moment, are 3-7 over their last ten games. Now they have to head down to Tampa to give the Rays another chance to deal them a blow that, while not by any means fatal (hard to be when the Sox will leave the series with a multi-game lead no matter what), would be entirely discouraging.

Oh, and they won't have to face Kevin Youkilis either. Joy!

Lineup

BOSTON RED SOX TAMPA BAY RAYS
Jacoby Ellsbury - CF Desmond Jennings - LF
Marco Scutaro - SS B.J. Upton - CF
Adrian Gonzalez - 1B Evan Longoria - 3B
Dustin Pedroia - 2B Ben Zobrist - 2B
David Ortiz - DH Johnny Damon - DH
Carl Crawford - LF Matt Joyce - RF
Jed Lowrie - 3B Casey Kotchman - 1B
Josh Reddick - RF John Jaso - C
Jarrod Saltalamacchia - C Reid Brignac - SS

Are you done hiding your eyes? Good!

...

Boo!

John Lackey

#41 / Pitcher / Boston Red Sox

6-6

245

R

R

Oct 23, 1978

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2011 - John Lackey 12-11 24 24 0 0 0 0 141.1 175 100 96 19 47 95 6.11 1.57

I'm really hoping that didn't cause any heart failures.

Wade Davis

#40 / Pitcher / Tampa Bay Rays

6-5

220

R

R

Sep 07, 1985

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2011 - Wade Davis 9-8 26 25 0 0 0 0 156.0 166 83 78 20 54 86 4.50 1.41

Go Sox!

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