The Red Sox (45-22) look to wake up the bats against the Orioles (19-46) tonight at Camden Yards (7:05 p.m., NESN) behind Eduardo Rodriguez (7-1, 3.68 ERA).

About tonight’s game: Would some offense be too much to ask for? The Sox look to bust through a mini-slump at the plate against David Hess (2-2, 3.07 ERA), though they won’t have Mookie Betts, who rests after his first game back off the DL. Somewhat oddly, Eduardo Núñez leads off — and DHes — and Andrew Benintendi stays in the 2-hole, despite the damage he did in the leadoff spot in Betts’s absence. On the Baltimore side, destroyer-of-worlds Manny Machado is back at short and in the cleanup spot for the Orioles.

About last night’s game: Steven Wright pitched a dandy, and the Sox held on to a 2-0 behind Craig Kimbrel. Read Matt’s recap here.

Forecast: 71 degrees and partly cloudy on the Inner Harbor.

Today’s reading: Matt totally stole* my idea and wrote about E-Rod’s love of 3-2 counts and whatnot.

* I might have decided to write about something else instead. Who can remember?

A good tweet from last night from our friend Craij:

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