Game 20 at Rays
Lineup spot | Red Sox | Rays |
---|---|---|
Lineup spot | Red Sox | Rays |
1 | Andrew Benintendi, LF | Yandy Díaz, 1B |
2 | Mookie Betts, RF | Tommy Pham, LF |
3 | Mitch Moreland, 1B | Austin Meadows, DH |
4 | J.D. Martinez, DH | Avisaíl Garcia, RF |
5 | Xander Bogaerts, SS | Daniel Robertson, 3B |
6 | Rafael Devers, 3B | Guillermo Heredia, CF |
7 | Christian Vázquez, C | Brandon Lowe, 2B |
8 | Jackie Bradley Jr., CF | Willy Adames, SS |
9 | Tzu-Wei Lin, 2B | Michael Pérez, C |
SP | Eduardo Rodriguez, LHP | Ryne Stanek, RHP |
The Red Sox (6-13) square off with the first-place Rays (14-5), whom they already somehow trail by eight games so far, when the teams meet tonight in Florida (7:10 p.m.) Andrew Benintendi’s back on the top of the lineup for Boston, while Tzu-Wei Lin gets the start at second base as the Sox reckon, poorly, with the end of the Dustin Pedroia experiment. The team’s a mess, and Lin will help to clean it up, no matter how temporary a solution.
The Rays have been the anti-Sox this year — always actually, but who’s counting? — and tonight they send Ryne Stanek to the mound as the opener, a role in which he has thrived so far this season, not unlike most of his teammates, and which could very well work tonight against a flailing Red Sox team. That or it could not work. Those are two outcomes. Watch tonight to find out which is the real one!