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The Red Sox (46-22) look to sweep the Orioles (19-47) behind Chris Sale (5-4. 2.83 ERA) as they wrap up a three-game series in Baltimore this afternoon, weather permitting (3:05 p.m., NESN, MLBN out-of-market).
About today’s game: The nicest game of the year sees Sale squaring off against righty Yefry Ramirez (NR), who will be making his Major League debut. Even with Sale struggling a little bit, we can safely say the Sox have the advantage. Mookie Betts is back atop the lineup, but Mitch Moreland gets a day off, with hot-hitting Brock Holt playing first.
About last night’s game: Eduardo Rodriguez did his 52⁄3 inning thing and Raffy and Beni homered as the Sox squirmed past O’s, 6-4. Read Matt’s recap here.
Forecast: Rain. Enough of it that game 69 might not happen until tomorrow.
Today’s reading: I hate to go with Matt two days in a row but he wrote about Beni so here we are.
A good tweet from yesterday, albeit one full of LIES:
First home run for Rafael Devers since May 22. He pointed to Dave Dombrowski as he rounded the bases and said, “Demote this!” I made the last part up
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) June 12, 2018
LINEUPS
Game 69 (nice) vs. Orioles
| Lineup Spot | Red Sox | Orioles |
|---|---|---|
| Lineup Spot | Red Sox | Orioles |
| 1 | Mookie Betts, RF | Joey Rickard, RF |
| 2 | Andrew Benintendi, LF | Trey Mancini, 1B |
| 3 | Xander Bogaerts, SS | Manny Machado, SS |
| 4 | J.D. Martinez, DH | Danny Valencia, 3B |
| 5 | Rafael Devers, 3B | Jonathan Schoop, 2B |
| 6 | Eduardo Núñez, 1B | Mark Trumbo, DH |
| 7 | Brock Holt, 1B | Craig Gentry, CF |
| 8 | Sandy León, C | Austin Wynns, C |
| 9 | Jackie Bradley Jr., CF | Jace Peterson, LF |
| SP | Chris Sale, LHP | Yefry Ramirez, RHP |