Red Sox at Tigers lineup: Fear the walking dead

The Red Sox have lost two games in a row, and their record sits at an even 2-2 heading into today’s 1:10 p.m game against Detroit. Most importantly, the team has being slowly eaten by zombies. The superflu continues its march through the team, apace, having now affected Mookie Betts, Hanley Ramirez, Andrew Benintendi, Joe Kelly and Dave O’Brien — yes, the announcer, who left mid-game yesterday with the illness. This is a crazy way to open the season, and pushes the Sox toward mid-season form; not the “running on all cylinders” type, but the “patchworking yourself through a random week when everyone is injured” kind.

Thankfully, Bette is back, and the flu has not yet claimed reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Rick Porcello, an appreciation of whom I wrote last week. He’ll face Daniel Norris, who sounds like he ought to/might be an enforcer for the Red Wings.

Here are the full lineups: