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The Red Sox (28-12) return from another early season road trip to begin a game homestand today against Oakland (19-21) and Sean Manaea (4-4, 2.11 ERA), who no-hit the Sox earlier this season and looks to pick it back up tonight (7:10 p.m., NESN). Read Matt’s series preview here.
About tonight’s game: Rick Porcello (5-0, 2.79 ERA) will look to continue his early season dominance against a free-swinging Oakland team. Between him and Manaea, we’ll probably get K’s for days. Jackie Bradley Jr. sits again for Boston, who will try to solve Manaea by... using Blake Swihart at DH? Why not?
About yesterday’s game: Mookie amazing, Sox win, recap here.
Forecast: 71 degrees at gametime, per the Google weather thingy.
Today’s reading: Yahoo’s Jeff Passan tackles Mookie vs. Mike Trout. It’s good. Read it here.
A good tweet from yesterday:
*Pretends to be shocked that Mookie did something great* pic.twitter.com/GDUVQZxFdP
— Red Sox (@RedSox) May 13, 2018
LINEUPS
Game 41 vs. A’s
| Lineup Spot | Athletics | Red Sox |
|---|---|---|
| Lineup Spot | Athletics | Red Sox |
| 1 | Marcus Semien, SS | Mookie Betts, RF |
| 2 | Matt Joyce, LF | Andrew Benintendi, CF |
| 3 | Jed Lowrie, 2B | Hanley Ramirez, 1B |
| 4 | Khris Davis, DH | J.D. Martinez, LF |
| 5 | Matt Olson, 1B | Xander Bogaerts, SS |
| 6 | Matt Chapman, 3B | Eduardo Nunez, 2B |
| 7 | Mark Canha, RF | Blake Swihart, DH |
| 8 | Jonathan Lucroy, C | Rafael Devers, 3B |
| 9 | Dustin Fowler, CF | Sandy Leon, C |
| SP | Sean Manaea, LHP | Rick Porcello, RHP |