Red Sox at Blue Jays lineup: Can’t escape the Rays, even in Buffalo

The Red Sox face the surprising Robbie Ray and the Blue Jays tonight in Buffalo looking to build on Monday night’s performance behind the beleaguered Garrett Richards (7:07 p.m., NESN).

Last night’s rainout was extremely convenient for the Blue Jays in the short term, as it allowed them to bypass emergency starter Thomas Hatch and get back on schedule with Ray, who’s having the best season of his peripatetic career after his recent discovery of the strike zone. It took him about a decade, but he finally found it, and that works well when you can throw really hard and are a lefty, neither of which much describes Richards any more. It’s not a great matchup for our heroes tonight, I can’t lie—I mean I could, but I won’t—but that’s why they play the games and whatnot, to flip the script and all.

Speaking of flipping the script, Jarren Duran is out of the lineup against the lefty, which stinks a bunch but hey, when you can bat Danny Santana second, you gotta do it! I kid, at least about having to do it, because it’s very really happening, but the new-look lineup survives the switch to a southpaw, with (relatively) struggling J.D. Martinez batting fifth, behind the other two big boys. “Toronto” doesn’t change its lineup at all against the same pitcher they were set to see tomorrow, which makes sense: